Vada in curd

Ingredients:

Urad dal : 1 1/2 cups
Diced Onions - 1 cup
1/2 teaspoon pepper powder
1/4 teaspoon cumin powder
1 sprig curry leaves
salt to taste

Method:

Grind urad dal in a mixer or grinder to a coarse paste. To it add the rest of the ingredients and mix it thoroughly. Heat oil in a wok. Make small doughnuts out of the mixture and fry it in a medium flame.
Tasty Vadas are ready. Keep the vada aside to cool.

Grind a bunch of coriander leaves, a spoon of cumin seeds, two green chillies and salt in a mixie jar and  add it to the curd.

Add a little salt and water to a bowl and put the vadas into it. Squeeze the water out of it and add it to the curd.

Temper it with mustard,cumin, split red chilli, urad dal and curry leaves.

Vadai Aviyal

Ingredients :

Channa dal - 1/2 cup

Toor Dal - 1/2 cup

red chillies - 3

Onion - 1 big

Green chillies - 1

Curry leaves - 2 sprig
Cooking oil - as needed

Soak the following for 2 hours

Channa dal - 1/2 cup
Toor Dal - 1/2 cup
red chillies - 3

To grind
Coconut - 1/2 cup
Green chilli - 1
pinch of turmeric powder


After 2 hrs grind it coarsely, add finely chopped onions, green chillies, curry leaves and salt to taste.
Make it into flat shapes and fry it in hot oil.

Break the fried vadas into four pieces. Grind the coconut green chilli and turmeric in the mixie and add it to the vadas.

Temper it with mustard seeds and curry leaves.