Ingredients:

• For vada:
• 1/4 cup – Urad Dal
• 1/4 cup – Channa dal
• 1/4 cup – moong dal
• Salt and oil
• For curry:
• 1/4 cup – Coconut
• 1/2 tbsp – Poppy Seeds
• 5 – Red Chilli
• 1/4 tsp – fennel/saunf
• 1 – Clove
• 1 – Cardamom
• 3 Cloves – Garlic
• 1/2 tbsp – roasted gram dal
• 1/4 tbsp – Coriander seeds
• 1 – onion, sliced
• 1 – tomato, cubed
• Salt and oil
• Curry leaves and Coriander leaves

Method:

1. For making vada:
2. Soak the three dals for a few hours and grind it like vada batter, that is, slightly coarse.
3. Now heat oil in the wok or kadai.
4. Drop the batter as small balls into the oil.
5. Deep-fry till slightly golden brown.
6. For making curry:
7. Grind the first nine ingredients to a coarse paste as we do for kurma.
8. Heat oil in the kadai, saute the onion to slight brown colour.
9. Now add the curry leaves and tomato.
10. Saute till the tomato is mushy.
11. Now add the ground paste and add water 3 times.
12. Cook till raw aroma disappears.
13. Now the gravy starts to thicken.
14. Add the vadas that you made and garnish with coriander leaves.
15. Recipe courtesy: Dishes from My Kitchen.