Medhu vadai / Ulundu vadai recipe

Medhu vadai / Ulundu Vadai Recipe 

Ingredients

 Urad dal skin removed – 1 cup
 Small onion – 6-7 chopped
 Curry leaves – 2 tsp torn to pieces
 Pepper corn – 1/4 tsp
 Salt
 Green chilli – 1  chopped
 Aesofotida – a small pinch
 Cilantro leaves - 2 tsp

Oil - For frying

1. Wash urad dal and soak it in water enough to cover the dal. Keep soaked for 2-3 hours.
2. Drain water in a bowl and keep aside. Now grind it by adding little by little. Add the soaked water       as required.
3. Do not make the batter very loose. (Check the batter by taking little amount in a teaspoon and       dropping it in a glass of water, if it floats, then your consistency is perfect).
4. Now add all ingredients to the batter.
5. Heat oil in a kadai.
6. Take a small polythene sheet, wet your hand and then a small ball out of the batter and pat it on the     polythene sheet.
   Make a hole in the centre and carefully drop it in hot oil. Another method is to simply wet your          hands take batter with yourfingers and make a hole with your thumb finger and slowly drop into oil.    Whichever is easy for you, go ahead. But make sure you wet your hand everytime you take the            batter. Else it will stick.
7. Fry it on medium flame till it turns golden brown on both sides.
8. Dry it on a paper. Serve with chutney or sambar.

Note: If your batter is of right consistency, it will not absorb much oil.