Dahi Vada Dahi Bhalla Chaat

Name: Dahi Vada Dahi Bhalla Chaat
Yield: serves 4 to 5 s
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 1/2 cup urad dal; 300 gm curd; 1/2 tsp hing/asafoetida; 1 inch Ginger crushed; 1 green chilli; 1 tsp chat masala; to taste salt; 1 tsp cumin powder; 1 tsp coriander powder; to taste sugar; 1/2 tsp Red chilli powder; 1/2 tsp rock salt; pinch carom seeds/ajwain; as needed Tamarind and green chutney; 1/2 tsp baking soda

Sudeshna Rajib Das @cook_85882015

New Delhi

Dahi Vada Dahi Bhalla Chaat

Sudeshna Rajib Das @cook_85882015

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Ingredients

serves 4 to 5 s

1/2 cupurad dal
300 gmcurd
1/2 tsphing/asafoetida
1 inchGinger crushed
1green chilli
1 tspchat masala
to taste salt
1 tspcumin powder
1 tspcoriander powder
to taste sugar
1/2 tspRed chilli powder
1/2 tsp rock salt
pinchcarom seeds/ajwain
as neededTamarind and green chutney
1/2 tspbaking soda

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Steps

1

Soak the urad dal overnight. Now strain the water and put it in a mixing pot. Now add a piece of ginger, green chilli & blend it into a smooth paste. (The consistency shud b lik colgate)
2

Now add half a tsp of hing, sum ajwain, salt, hing, half tsp baking soda and whisk it for about 8 to 10 mins so that it turns light & fluffy.
3

Rest it for about 10 mins so that it doubles the size. In the min time, pour the curd in s big bowl, add 100 ml of water into it and give it a mix. Now add 1 tsp of roasted coriander and cumin powder and red chilli powder, powdered sugar, rock salt + plain salt, chaat masala as per taste and mix it and keep it in a refrigerator.
4

Now heat oil in a pan. Again whisk the dal mixture for about 5 mins. And pour the lime size vadas into it and fry them till golden brown. Till the time the vadas fries, make a big bowl full of lukewarm water and put all the fried vadas into it and soak them in the water for about 10 mins.
5

After 10 mins, press the vadas gently so that the extra water gets removed frm the vadas and put it in the curd solution for an hour or two & serve it cold with tamarind and pudina chutney.