Lentil Donuts in Lentil Soup (Vada Sambhar)
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:
Add salt and a pinch of sodium bi carb and mix it well.
Deep fry these Donuts
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
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April 19th, 2007 at 8:03 pm
No paddu, its impossible to wait. Shall i come and have it…:-)
looking grt. Thanks for sharing..
April 19th, 2007 at 8:18 pm
Jyothi
thanks for dropping by and u are more than welcome to come !!
April 19th, 2007 at 10:11 pm
Wonderfully crispy ! I never could grind it so thick with my grinder.Looks great:)
April 19th, 2007 at 11:11 pm
hey I too cannot resist those yummy vada sambar! good to know that soaking it only for 1/2 hr works so well, thanks.
April 20th, 2007 at 3:52 am
wow Paddu the photos are so inviting would just want to hop to your place!!:)
April 20th, 2007 at 8:45 am
Asha
Ya to get the right consistency is always tricky right!!
Richa, ya i have always tried to change some tradtional ways of cooking our dishes, my mom n sis n frens suggested that they may not come as good as the once soaked for 4 to 5 hrs. So my husband and noel had vadas every 2 days to couldn’t find any difference,SO i guess i don’t have have to preplan to make this dish, i can make it instantly.
April 20th, 2007 at 8:46 am
Roopa
u are more than welcome.
April 20th, 2007 at 12:44 pm
oh lovely tempting pics padma. my mouth is watering. I am very lazy to make these vadas as I dont get that hole in the middle right. so we go to the temple nearby to have these. I and my Son simply love them. My hubby orders a bundle of them and we enjoy it!!
April 20th, 2007 at 1:32 pm
those look so perfect, padmaja. i love the picture in your header.
April 20th, 2007 at 4:16 pm
Delicious Vadais Padmaja. I didn’t know till recently to shape the vadais. But now with the help of a plastic sheet learnt to make it and made it last week too.
April 20th, 2007 at 5:02 pm
We just had vada sambar… in a restaurant. Yours look just as good, if not better
April 20th, 2007 at 6:59 pm
omg!!! i was planning to make it over the weekend and i see this here. i absolutely love this vada.
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April 20th, 2007 at 7:44 pm
Hi Bee
thank u for dropping by,and i wanted a pic which goes well with my title and loved this one and imme uploaded it
April 20th, 2007 at 7:45 pm
hey prema, how did they come out?
I think once u know the technique of making them then there is no stopping right!!
April 20th, 2007 at 7:48 pm
Mandira:
Thank you so much for comparing it with the restaurant ones.
Reena:
Do tell me how u make it?
everyone’s got their own personal touch on any dish right?
My sis suggests to add cabbage to make it more crispy? do u do that?
April 21st, 2007 at 3:41 am
no i can’t… looks yummy.
April 26th, 2007 at 5:15 pm
These vadai looks really good Padmaja. Very inviting pics
May 3rd, 2007 at 7:56 pm
A big WOWWWWW!! I don’t own a good blender to make a stiff dough and can’t even imagine to make them.
June 22nd, 2007 at 4:28 am
hi
it is a very nice website and i am learning so many things from you. i thank u from my bottom of the heart for that.
i tried making vadas,as seeing this photo no body can wait to do it. i tried may be 3 times but never it came out properly. i soaked the dal for an hour, grind it to thick paste without adding water for an about 15 - 20 mts,and added just salt and pinch of soda for an 1 cup of dal and deep fried it immediately.
but never it came out like yours, it is not crispy nor outside either inside. it looks so plain, i am not getting the pores outside the vada. i am so upset, pls tell me onceagain clearly or paste each photo for learners like us.
waiting for your reply, thank you
jyothi