Paruppu vadai

This vadai is made of three types of dhal or paruppu, it is also referred to as Paruppu Vadai or Muparuppu Vadai (meaning that all three types of dal are used for this). Also referred to as Masal Vadai (without onion).

Ingredients:

Toor dal - 1/2 cup
Channa dal - 1 cup
 Urid dal: 2 teaspoons
Pasiparuppu - 2 teaspoons(optional)
 Red chillies: 5 (Normal sized), if u want spicy masala vadai  
A Handful of rice
Salt to taste
 Asafoedita
Water to soak the dals
Oil to fry
Curry Leaves and coriander leaves
 A pinch of turmeric powder

 Procedure:

1.       Soak all the dal together and rice in water for one hour. Take a side 1 tbsp of gram dal alone and soak it separately.

2.       After an hour, filter out the water and grind the dal along with red chillies, salt, asafoedita and turmeric powder by adding no water..

3.       Grind it for only few seconds and not very nicely.

4.       Take the semi grinded maavu and mix this with curry leaves. Add the separately soaked 1 tbsp gram dal to this maavu after filtering out the water.

5.       Make small vadais by your hand and fry it in a kadai of oil once the oil is heated.

6.       Fry it both the sides till golden yellowish brown colour.

This vadai would be very crispy and usually children’s favourite…