Sambhar Vada

Name: Sambhar Vada
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 1 cup whole white urad; 2 green chillies finely chopped; 1 tbsp cummin seeds; as per taste Salt; As needed Oil for frying; 1/2 cup toor dal; 2 red ripe tomatoes; 2 tbsp sambhar powder; 2 tbsp grated coconut; 3-4 shallots Or 1 medium onion; to taste Salt; 1 tsp aamchur powder or 1/2 lemon (juice); 1 tbsp oil; 1 tsp urad dal; 1 tsp mustard seeds; leaves Few curry; 2 dry red chillies; 1 cup coconut pieces; 1/4 cup roasted gram; 1 green chilli; 1 inch ginger; as required few curry leaves; as per taste Salt; as required Cold Milk

Jasmin Motta _ #BeingMotta @cook_12567865

#boxweek17
#uraddal
Popular, delicious South Indian savoury breakfast .. Sambhar Vada.
Vada known as medu vada made from whole white urad. Serve with hot sambhar and coconut chutney.

Jasmin Motta _ #BeingMotta @cook_12567865

#boxweek17
#uraddal
Popular, delicious South Indian savoury breakfast .. Sambhar Vada.
Vada known as medu vada made from whole white urad. Serve with hot sambhar and coconut chutney.

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Ingredients

4 servings

For vada batter:
1 cupwhole white urad
2green chillies finely chopped
1 tbspcummin seeds
as per tasteSalt
As neededOil for frying
For Sambhar:
1/2 cuptoor dal
2red ripe tomatoes
2 tbspsambhar powder
2 tbspgrated coconut
3-4shallots Or 1 medium onion
to tasteSalt
1 tspaamchur powder or 1/2 lemon (juice)
For tempering on sambhar:
1 tbspoil
1 tspurad dal
1 tspmustard seeds
leavesFew curry
2dry red chillies
For coconut chutney;
1 cupcoconut pieces
1/4 cuproasted gram
1green chilli
1 inch ginger
as required few curry leaves
as per tasteSalt
as required Cold Milk

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Steps

1

Wash whole white urad in water for 4-5 times. Soak in clean water overnight or for 6 hours.
2

Discard soaked water. Grind soaked urad in wet grinder with little water(if required) to make smooth batter.
3

Transfer it in mixing bowl. Beat this grinded urad batter with hand for 5 minutes to make fluffy mixture. Add salt, finely chopped green chillies and cummin seeds in it.
4

Heat oil for frying. Take big tea strainer. On back side apply water. Take ball size prepared urad mixture. Place on this tea strainer. Give round shape with wet finger. Make hole in center. Drop in hot oil. Similarly prepare more. (3-4 at a time). Deep fry in hot oil on medium flame till crispy golden brown. Similarly prepare all vadas
5

For making sambhar.. wash toor dal and pressure cook with 1 glass of water for 4 whistles. Cool and whisk it. Keep aside.
6

Make tomato puree and keep aside. Grind coconut and sambhar powder to make paste. Keep aside. Chopped shallots finely.(You can add veggies like drumsticks, pumpkin)
7

In cooking pan add tomato puree,whisked toor dal, coconut sambhar powder paste. Add salt, aamchur powder and mix well. Add1 glass of water.Boil/ simmer for 5 minutes.
8

In small tadka pan add heat oil. Add urad dal saute it till pinkish. Add mustard seeds as splutter add dry red chillies and curry leaves. Off the flame. Pour this tempering on boiling sambhar. Mix well. Off the flame. Serve hot.
9

To make coconut chutney..add green chillies ginger pieces,roasted gram, chopped coconut pieces, salt in mixer jar. Churn/ blend it for 1 minute. Add cold milk and again churn to make chutney.
10

At the time of serving.. place hot urad vadas in serving plate. Pour 2-3 ladle ful of prepared hot sambhar. Serve/ relish delicious South Indian savoury hot Sambhar Vada with coconut chutney.