This post goes to my dear friend Pari's 'Only Chaat Event at Foodelicious'
Serves: 6-8, Preparation time: 30 minutes
Ingredients:
For Vadas/ Bhalla
2 cups Urad dal
10-12 Cashews
1 tsp Ginger (finely chopped)
2 Green chillies (finely chopped)
Pinch of hing (asafoetida)
Salt to taste
Oil for deep frying
For Curd/ Dahi
3-4 cups Curd (fresh)
1-2 tsp Jeera powder (fresh roasted and then powdered)
Red chilly powder as per your taste
1 tsp Sugar
Method:
Wash and Soak Urad Dal in a large bowl overnight.Grind it into smooth paste. Add salt and further grind it into smooth paste. While grinding you may add little water. Do remember that vada batter should not be much watery & be a little coarse.
Then add chopped ginger, broken cashews, hing, finely chopped green chilies and mix well with a spoon .
Heat oil on a medium flame for deep frying the vadas. With the help of spoon or with your hand whichever is convenient drop the batter into the hot oil. After that be patient by not putting more than 4-5 vadas at one go in the hot oil or the vadas may stick close to each other. Boil salted water in another burner. And once your first batch of vadas turn golden brown take them out and dip them into the salted water. Repeat the same procedure with the remaining water and simultaneously squeeze out the extra water from the fried vadas which were dipped in water earlier. Try not to disturb the round shapes of the vadas while squeezing.
Mix curd with salt, black salt , red chili powder, sugar and jeera powder. Add a little bit of water to make it smoother and thinner.
In a serving tray pour curd mixture and arrange the number of vadas that you want to serve. In case you want to increase the no. of vadas pour curd into them after you have selected the vadas. Now pour tamarind and green chutney into them . Sprinkle chat masala, jeera powder, red chili powder ,black salt and green chutney . Decorate the upper layer with chopped coriander and sev over them. Keep this serving tray in the refrigerator for som time. This tastes best when served cold.
Imli Chutney
Ingredients:
Ingredients:
200gms tarmarind
300 gms of Jaggery or Sugar
1 tsp of salt.
1 tsp of Red Chili Powder
2 tsp of roasted cumin powder
1/2 tsp of freshly ground black pepper
Pinch of Hing
1/4 tsp of Saunth ( Dry Ginger)
Method:
Soak Tarmarind for 1/2 hour in water. Mix and stain it. Now mix sugar, salt red chili , saufh powder with tarmarind water. Heat this jaggery water on medium flame. Boil it and chutney should become semi thick. Turn off the flame and add roasted jeera and black pepper into it. Wait till it cools down. This chutney can be stored in fridge and be consumed for many days.
Green Chutney
Ingredients:
1/2 Bunch of Coriander leavs
1/2 Bunch of Pudina leavs
4-5 Green chillies
1 tea spoon of lemon juice
Salt to taste
Method:
Wash & chop Coriander and Pudina leavs. Put all the contents in a mixture and make a fine paste. Keep aside.
Slurp, feel like grabbing and finishing that whole plate..truly irresistible chaat..
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ReplyDeleteoh!tempting n delicious dhai vada..
ReplyDeleteMouthwatering chat.
ReplyDeleteWinter is the perfect time to indulge in dahi vada. Looks yumm.You can send it to Only Chaat hosted by me.
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Droolz! It's very tempting! Groovy for wintry evenings!
ReplyDeletehi deepa, very appetizing dahi vada....gonna try this soon....
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ReplyDeletelooks delicious.
ReplyDeleteSlurp... can you hear me?
ReplyDeleteWhat a tasty treat!
ReplyDeleteI just swallowed in my saliva dear! Such a tempting dish...never had this before, pass me some dear!!! :D
ReplyDeletevery recntly i tasted this in my friend's place. Have to try this soon. Yours turned out very perfect
ReplyDeleteabsolutey delicious.. my all time fav..
ReplyDeleteIts been ages, I had dahi vadas. This post is inspiring me to make some :)
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Wow.. I wish i could eat them right now..
ReplyDeletelovely post :)
delicious yummy addition of cashews
ReplyDeleteDahi vada looks delicious and awesome Deepa
ReplyDeleteLooks very yummy..dahi vada is my abs favourite!Yours look soft like snowballs :)
ReplyDeletetempting and mouthwatering dahi vada
ReplyDeleteinviting chaat....just want to grab the bowl!!Yummy!!
ReplyDeleteYummy chat,looks so tempting and mouthwatering.
ReplyDeletelooks so delicious!! very nice.
ReplyDeleteThe vadas look so magnificent....I'm drooling!
ReplyDeleteI have had this once at my friends' place and totally loved it..I have bookmarked this recipe to try! Thanks for sharing, Deepa.. and lovely pics..
ReplyDeleteDelicious, looks so yummy,drooling.
ReplyDeletewow great recipe dear....thinking of old days on mumbai street......
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What a beautiful presentation, my favorite :)
ReplyDeleteAwesome looking dahi vadas... feel like grabbing some from there!
ReplyDeleteTempting and so yummy
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Feeling hungry after seeing this !!yummy!!
ReplyDeleteThis looks so very tempting..the mint and imli chutney is making my mouth water
ReplyDeletewow Deepa..that looks so yummy...
ReplyDeleteWow I just luv it.
ReplyDeleteOne my fav..reminds me of collage days deepa..i use to have this often in my collage canteen..those looks tempting..feel like grabbing them.
ReplyDeletetempting pic Deepa ... looks yummy dear
ReplyDeleteDoi boda dekhe to r thakte parchhina kenona ami bhishon bhalobashi. Khub sundor baniyechho. Bhabchhi tomar barite chole ashi r jomiye boshe khai. Durdanto hoyechhe. Wonderful presentation.
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ReplyDeleteacho kamon? darun darun ranna korcho to ajkal.
Dahi wada looks really wonderful and tasty deepa.They look delicious with the garnish and chutneys.
ReplyDeleteDahi wadas look so tempting... Wish to have some :-)
ReplyDeleteHey Deepa, pass me some looks so good..from last week I'm thinking to make some & just not getting any time...
ReplyDeleteWow,looks very very tempting,i am craving for some now !!
ReplyDeleteI simplyyyy loveeee this Chat , way way muc , too muc infact!!!
ReplyDeleteAnd thannnk for the recipe!!
that tutti frutti cake looks v invitn too, perfect with a cuppa or chai!
Delicious....I am becoming quite a chaat fan....:)
ReplyDeleteDAhi vada ekdom perfect hoyeche..amar ekhane ekhon brishti hochche, ichche korche tomar plate ta tule niye asi, eto darun dekhte hoyeche, with 2 chutneys...yumm yumm
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ReplyDeleteLooks so yummy truly makes me hungry ....
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ReplyDeletethis looks super delicious.. first snap is too tempting..
ReplyDeleteI esp. like that you have used cashews here. I use cashews and raisins but not all the time. My MIL makes the gujia with coconut, nuts and raisins. a droolworth vada.
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Ki shundor dekhte hoye che. Aami erom kore banayi, I like it sweet and use raisins, cashews and notice that you have added hing which I dont. Next time aamio add korbo. Khub bhalo.
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