A crunchy snack that is made with dhal and vegetables. Serve with coconut chutney or simply have it as evening snack with tea.
Coconut chutney
Difficulty: EasyA simple coconut chutney made with just coconut. You can also season it with curry leaves, mustard and red chilies.
Vegetable Vadai
Course: SnacksCuisine: Indian, TamilDifficulty: Medium
Servings
6
servingsSoaking time
1
hourCooking time
20
minutesA crunchy snack that is made with dhal and vegetables
Ingredients
Urad dal – 1/2 cup
Thuvar dal – 1/2 cup
Green Gram (Moong) dal – 1/2 cup
Red Chillies – 3
Coconut gratings – 3 tablespoons
Carrot – 1
French Beans – 6 to 8 Nos
Cabbage – a small piece
Onion – 1
Coriander Leaves – a small bunch
Green Chillies – 2
Asafoetida powder – a pinch
Salt – 1 teaspoon or as per taste
Oil – for deep frying
Directions
- Soak urad dal, thuvar dal and green gram (Moong) dal in water for about an hour.
- After an hour clean the dal and drain out the water completely.
- Now add red chillies, salt and grind it to a thick coarse paste without adding any water.
- Now chop the onion, green chillies and coriander leaves.
- Then grate the carrot.
- Slit the beans lengthwise into four and chop it into half inch pieces.
- Then finely cut the cabbage into small pieces.
- Add all the chopped vegetables, onion, green chillies, coriander leaves and coconut gratings to the dal paste.
- Then add salt, a pinch of asafoetida powder and knead well.
- Now heat oil in a kadai.
- Take a small orange size dough and keep it in plastic sheet. Wet your fingers and pat it slightly and make round vadai. Make a hole in the centre and gently remove it and put it in the hot oil.
- You can fry three to four vadais at a time in the oil and fry till it become golden color.
- Remove and serve with coconut chutney or simply have it as evening snack with tea.
I tried this recipe. the vadas very crispy and not oily at all. Very healthy and nice. thanks for the recipe.
Thank you Niranjana for your kind feed back.
Very healthy recipe.I really love this one.Very tasty and yummy.
Thank you Ramya.
its nice to read i will try this
I have not tried Vadas much thinking of its long process. But this looks very easy. Lemme try this Sunday and will put my comments..
Vidya
I tried this receipe. Turned out good. My kids loved it. I generally don’t try vadai becos it turns out hard & dry. Thanks for posting this receipe
Thank you for your kind feedback.
Vadas look perfect Kamala..I have had this from Sangeetha Restaurant and wanted to try this for a long time…Thanks for the recipe..will try this soon.
Could you tell me how did you grind it? did you use a mixer grinder or wet grinder?
I used mixer grinder only.
Hii kamala, recently came across your site. Lots of simple easy to cook recipes… Tried Vegetable vadai.. came out very vell.. THank You. Planning to try other recipes as well…
Hi Nimitha Balaji,
Welcome to our site. Hope the recipes will be useful to you. Pl do post your comments after trying.
Excellent recipes. Thank u
Wonderful recipe soaking dhal will post again after trying too excited mam