Delectable donuts made of lentils and fried to give the authentic South Indian Flavour
My family love to have some tasty munchies every weekend as we all tend to sit together and enjoy our evenings with a hot cuppa.
Snacks I try to make often are pakodas, vadas, bhajjis .
These are all deep fried snacks and oily but I guess once in a while we can relax our dietary habits and enjoy few traditional and authentic snacks which we have been eating for so many years.
Vadas are so simple to make and with few ingredients.

I try to change something in the recipe every time I put together a dish just to see whether I can enhance a simple dish ad make it little healthier. This time I tried to make these vadas in less than an hour. I didn’t want to soak for 4 hrs and wait and grind and make these.
So I started my try out to make faultless vadas within an hour.

Here’s the recipe:

Sambhar or Lentil soup
1 cup : red lentils or toor dal
1 tsp: turmeric
1 tsp: chilli powder.
Pressure cook dal with turmeric, chilli powder with 2 glasses of water.
For tempering u need:
4 fresh tomatoes
1 onion
2 chillies
Coriander leaves: small bunch
Mustard seeds, black gram, chana dal - 1 tsp each
Curry leaves: 1 sprig

Take oil in a sauce pan and add mustard, jeera, black gram, chana dal and fry for few min.

As soon as mustard seeds start spluttering add chopped onion, chillies for couple of min or until onions are soft

Now add tomatoes, tamarind juice and cooked dal and let it boil for 10 min.
Now add salt and garnish with corainder leaves and dish up with hot Vadas

Now tell me can anyone resist these mouth watering Vadas with Sambhar