This recipes yields about 45 pieces of this yummy finger food.
Ingredients:
* 2 cups Chana dal
* 2 cups green split peas (or you can use one cup green split peas and one cup toor dal)
* 1 large red onion sliced
* 5-6 fresh red chili pods (can use dry pods if fresh not available)
* 2" piece of ginger
* 6 pods of garlic
* 1 Jalapeno pepper or 2 Serrano pepper
* 10-15 fresh curry leaves from 1 sprig
* 1 small bunch of cilantro leaves
* 2 tablespoons of Sambar or Rasam powder (available at local Indian Grocer)
* 1 table spoon of cumin powder
* 2 teaspoons of crushed red pepper
* 1 teaspoon of cayenne pepper powder
* 1 tablespoon of mango powder
* 2 teaspoon of salt or to taste
* oil for deep frying
Method:
* Soak the chana dal and split peas in water for 4 hours.
* Slice onion, chop cilantro, red chili pods, curry leaves.
* Finely chop garlic, ginger and Jalapeno pepper.
* Drain all water from soaked dal, set aside 1/3 cup of soaked dal.
* Grind the rest of dal in food processor to coarse consistency.
* Mix all the dry spices in to sliced onions, chopped cilantro, red chili pods, curry leaves, garlic, ginger and Jalapeno pepper, add the soaked 1/3 dal (that you set aside) to this.
* Mix well.
* Add all of the above to coarsely ground dal paste, mix well.
* Heat oil in frying pan to 375 degrees F.
* Take a portion of the dal mix on the palm of your hand, make ball and flatten and each ball to make a small flat round patty as shown in picture.
* Fry these small thin patties (vada) in heated oil until golden brown.
* Serve hot with cilantro chutney, or coconut chutney (recipes on this blog)or with Ketchup.
Recipe and Photographs by Surekha.
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