Ulunthu Vadai

Ulunthu vadai or Medhu vadai, the most common south indian recipe that comes with breakfast, meal or a snack, I love it too especially the one which my mom makes and the other is the Saravana Bhavan vadai mmmmmmm delicious ;-)

During my childhood my mom used to prepare vadai as an evening snack i still remember those crispy vadai's that myself and dad used to enjoy. My cousin sister's are my mom's fan too, we used to sit together in the terrace and have the snacks, those where the good old days, and i miss them

too :-(  ...

Vadai's are delicious and crispy if made well, a slightest change in proportion may lead to disaster as well( very hard ones ). Coz recently i had one such disaster, My sister and her family came home to stay with us on a long weekend, i wanted to prepare them a good breakfast along with a crispy vadai, it was early morning and as well i was sleepy i guess, accidentally i added 1 spoon rice flour instead of 1/4 tsp which made the vadai hard (oopsy) :-( , i felt really bad, we had no other option left so here comes the next option, sambar vadai, we soaked all the vadai's in sambar and had it :-). So the lesson is keep your proportions intact for a crispy snack :-), ok let me stop boring you guys, here you go with the recipe.

Ingredients:

• Urad Dal             - 1 cup
• Fennel seeds       - 1/2 tsp
• Onions                - 1
• Coriander leaves - few
• Green Chillies     - 1 ( take off the seeds inside )
• Curry Leaves      - few
• Rice Flour           - 1/4 or less (optional)
• Ginger                 - 1/4 tsp (grated)
• Salt
• Oil

Method:

• Soak urad dal for 2 - 4 hours
• Grind it with fennel seeds, rice flour and Salt without water, coz if too much of water is added you get a runny batter in which you cannot make the shape of the vadai. So even if water is needed add very little

      

• Once the batter is ready
• Add onions, ginger, coriander leaves, green chillies, and curry leaves to the batter
• Place a plastic cover on a flat surface
• Take a small lemon sized portion of batter and make it as a round ball
• Pat it over the plastic cover into a circle with a hole in the center

• Heat a kadai with oil and fry the vadai's
• Serve it with sambar or chutney.... :-)
• To get a crispier vadai we can use the grinder to grind instead of mixie.