Ingredients:

• 8-10 – Curry leaves
• 1 cup – Dhal, urad (white)
• 1/4 tsp – Asafoetida
• 1 tsp – Pepper corns, crushed
• 1 tsp – Jeera/Cumin Seeds
• Oil for frying
• Salt to taste.

Method:

1. Wash and soak urad dal for 6 hours. Then grind it into a fine paste.
2. Now, pour the batter in a bowl, whisking it continuously to fluff it up, and give it sufficient buoyancy until it turns slightly white.
3. Now add salt, asafoetida, curry leaves, cumin seeds and crushed peppercorns to the batter and mix well.
4. Then heat oil in a deep bottomed frying pan.
5. Now wet your palms and shape the batter into balls and make a depression with the thumb in the center like a doughnut.
6. Then deep fry the vadas in medium hot oil until golden brown and crisp.
7. Serve hot with sambhar and coconut chutney.

Recipe courtesy of Walter