Kanji Vadas Recipe

• 2 ½ cup Split Yellow Gram (Moong Dal)
• ½ tsp Green Chilli Paste
• ½ tsp Ginger Paste
• ½ tsp Fennel Seeds
• ¼ cup Mustard Seeds
• 1 ½ tsp Red Chilli Powder
• 1 tbsp Black Salt
• A pinch of Hing (asafoetida)
• Salt to taste
• Oil (as per required)

• In a bowl, add mustard seeds, black salt, chilli powder and salt. Blend this mixture in a mixer to make a fine powder.
• Now, add 1½ litres of water to this mixture and mix well. The kanji is ready. All you need to do now is refrigerate it for about 24 hours.
• To make the vadas, soak the moong dal in water for about four hours. Thereafter, drain out the water and make a coarse paste of moong dal.
• Add ginger paste, green chilli paste, salt, hing and fennel seeds to the moong dal mixture and mix well.
• Now, take a pan and heat oil in it.
• Take about two tablespoons of the paste in wet hand and give it a circular shape. Now fry this in the hot oil till it turns golden brown.
• Repeat the same procedure with rest of the moong dal paste.
• Keep aside the fried vadas and let them cool.
• Put these vadas in water for about an hour, so that they become soft. Thereafter, squeeze out the water from the vadas and soak them in the kanji.
• Keep them in the kanji for atleast one hour.
• Enjoy chilled and spicy Kanji vadas.