Keerai Vada

Ingredients

• • Urad dal - 1 cup
• • Rice flakes/Pohas - 2 tablespoons
• • Salt - as required
• • Rice - 2 teaspoons
• • Onions (finely chopped) - ½ cup
• • Amaranth leaves (finely chopped) - 1 cup
• • Oil (for frying) - as required
• • Green chillies - 3
• • Ginger - 1 inch piece

Method

• 1. Grind green chilly and ginger together. Keep aside
• 2. Wash and soak rice flakes and urad dal for 15 minutes.
• 3. Drain well and grind into smooth thick frothy paste.
• 4. Add salt when it is half done.
• 5. Add ginger green chilly paste, onion, amaranth leaves and mix well.
• 6. Pat like urad dal vada on a wet plastic sheet or banana leaf using wet hands.
• 7. Make a small hole in the centre.
• 8. Slip it in hot oil gently and deep fry until golden brown.