Thursday, January 15, 2009

Sweet Vada


Ingredients:
  • Urad dal - 1 cup
  • Salt to taste
  • Oil for frying
For syrup:
  • Grated jaggery - 1 1/2 cups
  • Water - 2 cups
  • Elachi powder - 1/4 tsp

Method:

  • Wash and soak urad dal for about 4 hours. Drain the water and grind it into paste using little water, add salt and mix well
  • Heat water, add jaggery and let it melt and form a syrup which is sticky to touch. Add elachi powder and remove from heat
  • Heat oil, when oil is heated wet your hands with water, take a lemon sized ball of batter and flatten it on a plastic sheet. Make a hole in the centre and drop them into hot oil
  • Fry it on both sides on medium heat to golden brown color
  • Immediately dip these fried vadas into the warm syrup till they absorb the syrup. Let them sit in this syrup till the next batch of vadas are deep-fried. Remove them onto a serving plate and drop the next batch of vadas into the syrup.

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