Thavala vadai (Chettinadu)

I love certain Chettinadu vegetarian cuisines. I love this thavala vadai which is very crispy and tasty. All of us in our family love this vadai, I make it once in a while and I even treat the guests with this vadai, and they all love it.

Ingredients:

Tur dhal (red gram dhal) -1/2 cup

Urad dhal (black gram dhal) -1/2 cup

Chana dhal (bengal gram dhal) -1/2 cup

Boiled rice -3/4 cup

Ginger -1 1/2 inch piece

Green chillies -3

Grated fresh coconut -1 cup

Oil for frying

Salt - as required

For grinding:

Red chillies -3

Asafoetida (hing) a pinch

Method:

Soak the dhals and rice for 1 hour.

Filter the water and grind them with red chillies and hing.Do not add water while grinding, make it a coarse batter.

Finely chop the ginger and green chillies.

In a pan pour oil, add mustard seeds, chopped ginger and finely chopped green chillies and curry leaves and add this to the coarse batter with fresh grated coconut.

Now wet your palm with water and take balls of the batter and flatten it in your palm and put it in the oil and deep fry.

Now the vadais are ready for consumption.

You can have these vadais with either coconut chutney, tomato onion chutney or green coriander or pudina chutney.

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