Sambar Vada | Sambar Vada Recipe | Easy Sambhar Vada Recipe at Home

Name: Sambar Vada | Sambar Vada Recipe | Easy Sambhar Vada Recipe at Home
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 8 min
Total time: 13 min
Yield: 4 Servings
Ingredients: URAD DAL DOUGH: 1 cup; IDLI DOUGH: 1/2 cup; ONION: 1; CORIANDER LEAVES: half handful; SALT: 1/2 tsp; BAKING SODA: 1/4 tsp; GINGER CHOPPED: 1 tsp; GREEN MIRCHI: 1; OIL: as required

Preparation Time-5 mins
Cooking Time- 8 mins
Cooking Temperature- 180°C

Ingredients

1 cup URAD DAL DOUGH
1/2 cup IDLI DOUGH
1 ONION
half handful CORIANDER LEAVES
1/2 tsp SALT
1/4 tsp BAKING SODA
1 tsp GINGER CHOPPED
1 GREEN MIRCHI
as required OIL

Directions

South Indian cuisine sounds incomplete without vadas in it. Sambar vada is almost similar to medu vada. Usually prepared in breakfast, sambhar vada is made of urad dal and idli dough. An ideal south Indian breakfast, it is also very famous in western India along with south India. Sambhar vadas are normally eaten with coconut chutney and sambar.

These are prepared with mainly urad dal dough and you could always add some more spices and vegetables to make it more nutritious. People on diet can also have these vadas due to its low- calorie component. Also, these vadas are very filling.

South Indians always make prefer to make these crispy vadas with all the other breakfast like upma, idli or dosa. These vadas are fluffy from the inside and crispy from the outside. Sambar vada is a protein rich breakfast due to the use of urad dal in it.

Ever wondered how do these south Indian restaurants serve such crispy and fluffy vadas. Puviya’s recipe here will help you make tasty and crispy sambar vadas in a very simple and easy method.

Let’s start with this yummy recipe.

Ingredients- 1 cup urad dal dough

½ cup idli dough
1 onion
Half handful coriander leaves
½ teaspoon salt
¼ teaspoon baking soda
1 tsp ginger chopped
1 green chilli
As required oil

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Recipe Instructions of Urad Dal Bonda Recipe :

Preparation:

Take 1 cup of urad dal dough in a big bowl.
Add ½ cup of idli dough in the bowl.
Add 1 finely chopped onion to the batter in the bowl.
Next, add 1 finely chopped green chili in the bowl.
Add 1 teaspoon of finely chopped ginger to the batter in the bowl.
Now, add half handful of coriander leaves in the batter.
Add ¼ teaspoon of baking soda in the batter.
Add ½ teaspoon of salt to the batter in the bowl.
Mix all the ingredients in the bowl well, make sure there are no lumps in the batter.
Take a small portion of the dough from the bowl and make a small ball of it.
Slightly flatten the dough you have in your hand.
Make a hole in the dough with your fingers.
The dough should look like a medu vada in shape.
Take a pan and pour some oil in it to fry the vada, make sure the oil is hot and nice. Following the same steps make some more vadas and put in the pan as well.
Slowly stir the vadas occasionally in the pan.
Deep fry the vadas at a medium flame, also flip the vadas to fry both the sides equally.
Fry the vadas in the pan until they are golden and crispy.
Using a strainer take out the vadas straining the extra oil.
Place it in a plate, you could always use tissues to soak the extra oil on it.
Pour sambhar over it or in a side bowl.

Crispy and mouth-watering sambar vadas are ready to eat.

Steps

1 Done	Take 1 cup of urad dal dough in a big bowl.
2 Done	Add ½ cup of idli dough in the bowl.
3 Done	Add 1 finely chopped onion to the batter in the bowl.
4 Done	Next, add 1 finely chopped green chili in the bowl.
5 Done	Add 1 teaspoon of finely chopped ginger to the batter in the bowl.
6 Done	Now, add half handful of coriander leaves in the batter.
7 Done	Add ¼ teaspoon of baking soda in the batter.
8 Done	Add ½ teaspoon of salt to the batter in the bowl.
9 Done	Mix all the ingredients in the bowl well, make sure there are no lumps in the batter.
10 Done	Take a small portion of the dough from the bowl and make a small ball of it.
11 Done	Slightly flatten the dough you have in your hand.
12 Done	Make a hole in the dough with your fingers.
13 Done	The dough should look like a medu vada in shape.
14 Done	Take a pan and pour some oil in it to fry the vada, make sure the oil is hot and nice. Following the same steps make some more vadas and put in the pan as well.
15 Done	Slowly stir the vadas occasionally in the pan.
16 Done	Deep fry the vadas at a medium flame, also flip the vadas to fry both the sides equally.
17 Done	Fry the vadas in the pan until they are golden and crispy.
18 Done	Using a strainer take out the vadas straining the extra oil.
19 Done	Place it in a plate, you could always use tissues to soak the extra oil on it.
20 Done	Pour sambhar over it or in a side bowl.
21 Done	Crispy and mouth-watering sambhar vadas are ready to eat.
22 Done	Notes- adding onions to the vadas is totally optional. • You could always give the vadas a different shape as per your preference. • Adding few drops of oil to dough would help make the vadas crispier.

Puviya

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