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Thayir Vada
Prep Time
2 hrs
Cook Time
20 mins
Total Time
2 hrs 20 mins
 
Ingredients
  • 1 cup Urad dal
  • 1 Onion /10 Shallots
  • 1 tsp Pepper powder
  • 2 tsp Rice flour
  • Few Curry leaves
  • Few Coriander leaves
  • Oil For frying
  • 2 cups Sour curd
  • Salt as needed
For Boondi (Optional)
  • 4 tsp Besan Flour/Gram flour
  • 1/2 tsp Chili powder
  • Salt as needed
  • 1/4 tsp Baking soda
Instructions
  1. Wash and soak urad dal for 1 hour.
  2. Once done, drain excess water and add it in a mixer jar.
  3. Make it a smooth paste.

  4. Now add it in a bowl, add chopped onion, rice flour, salt, pepper powder, curry leaves, and coriander leaves.
  5. Combine everything well.
  6. Make small balls, pat it and make a small hole in the middle.
  7. Drop the vadas on hot oil.
  8. After 2 or 3 minutes, flip it over.
  9. Cook till golden brown on both sides.
  10. Once done, drain it in a paper towel.
  11. When you fried all the vadas, soak it in the warm water for 30 minutes.
  12. Meanwhile, add sour curd and needed salt in a mixer jar, pulse till it becomes frothy.
  13. After 30 minutes, squeeze the warm water from each vada, arrange it in a serving bowl.
  14. Add the prepared curd in the bowl.
  15. Allow vada to soak in curd for at least 2 hours, so the vadas will absorb the curd. 
  16. For boondi, mix together besan flour, chili powder, salt, and baking soda, and make it as a thick paste.
  17. Fry it in the hot oil, and drain on paper towel.
  18. Sprinkle some coriander leaves and boondi before serving.