Masaal Vadai (Paruppu Vadai)
Golden, crisp Bengal gram fritters with onion, herbs and fennel. Serve these much-loved paruppu vadai hot with tea, or alongside your favourite breakfast.
Let’s make it
- 01
Take 250 gms of bengalgram dal, wash it using water twice.
- 02
Soak the bengalgram dal in water for 1 hour. Take two tablespoon of soaked bengalgram dal and keep it separately.
- 03
Add the bengalgram dal, fennel seeds, garlic, salt and ginger into mixerjar and then grind them coarsely into vada batter consistency. Transfer batter into a separate vessel.
- 04
Then finely chop Onion, Green chillies, Curry leaves and Coriander leaves.
- 05
Add all the chopped ingredients into the vadai batter vessel and mix them well.
- 06
Keep a frying pan in stove, add 1/2 lite of oil into it and wait until it gets heated.
- 07
Make vadai into medium size and shape using your hand and drop it gently in the heated oil.
- 08
Fry the vadai on both sides until it changes to golden brown colour.
- 09
Tasty Masaal Vadi is ready.
A note from our kitchen
Can be served as snack item during evening with coffee or tea. Can be used as side dish with breakfast items like Idli, Dosa, Pongal etc., Can be used as side dish for Lunch items like Meals, Variety Rices etc.,
Kitchen conversations (1)
Hey nice blog post. It is a healthy evening snack although it is made out of oil. I usually make it but without adding garlic. I will try and see with garlics added to it.