Dahi Vada Recipe

• 2 cups Urad Dal
• 5 Green Chillies (chopped)
• 4'' Ginger (chopped)
• 4 cups Curd
• 1 cup Milk
• 1/2 tsp Roasted Jeera
• 1/4 tsp Red Chilli Powder
• Oil for deep-frying
• Salt to taste

• Soak two cups urad dal for about 6 hours.
• Grind the soaked dal. Add salt, ginger, green chillies and little water to make smooth batter.
• Beat this batter well, so that there are no lumps.
• Heat oil in a pan. With the help of the slotted spoon, leave the batter in form of vadas in the oil.
• Deep fry the vadas and keep them on a blotting paper to remove excess oil.
• Now dip the vadas in cold salted water to extract their oil for few minutes.
• Now squeeze out the water from vadas and keep them aside.
• Add milk with the curd to whip the curd well.
• Now add roasted jeera, red chilli powder and salt to the curd.
• Put seasoned curd in a dish. Dip vadas in the curd.
• Keep it in the freezer for half an hour.
• Dahi Vada is ready to serve.