Mint Vadai. Mint flavoured Medhu Vadai.

I happend to taste this recipe while I was in Hyderabad hostel, on a Sankranthi day(Pongal Festival). Kranthi said…she liked it very much and so did I. This was much like keerai vadai but in Urad batter! Nice and aromatic! Later when I visited Kranthi’s home, her mommy prepared this too. She tossed, mint, cilantro and other greens in it. Wow….it was awesome! So thought of giving it a try today, although I couldnt match the taste….it turned out okay!

Ingredients:

urad dal(ulutham paruppu) 1 cup
Rice 1/4 cup
Sago/saboodana/jawarisi 6 spoons
Salt
Crushed black peppers 1 spoon
Cumin 1/2 spoon
Green chilies 3-6 finely chopped
Mint leaves alone 1 small cup finely chopped
Cilantro leaves alone 1/4 cup
Fenugreek leaves few
Small onion 1 fienly chopped
Oil for deep frying.

Method:

Soak urad dal with rice and sago 1 hour before. Wet grind it using very limited water. The batter should look like a butter, without any lumps. Grind for a long duration(than usual) but with limited water.

Now mix all the above said ingredients to it(except oil). Mix thoroughly and leave it in the fridge for 1-2 hours.

Now heat oil, in a deep frying pan. Take a small lemon sized batter, using wet hands. Pat like ‘vadai’ and drop in oil. Repeat the same for remaining batter too. Fry few at a time.

Fry them till golden brown. Leave them over kitchen tissues for a while.

Serve warm with mint or cilantro chutney as a snack.