Ingredients:

• Channa dal – 2 cups
• onion – 1 (small,chopped)
• green chillies – 6 (finely chopped)
• corriander leaves-little
• sombu- 1 tsp
• salt

Method:

• Soak Channa dal for 2 hour. drain water and grind it coarsely.
• In a vessel, combine dal,onions,chillies,sombu,corriander leaves and salt.
• Shape into vadas and deep fry in oil.
• Serve with chutney of your choice.

Ingredients:

• 2 cup: Uzhundhu – Urad dal
• 10 nos. Finely chopped small onion
• 2 Green chilly
• 1/2 tsp: black Pepper
• A few: Curry leaves
• Oil for deep frying
• Salt to taste

Method:

• Soak the urad dal in water for an hour.
• Grind to a paste all the ingredients except oil .
• Heat oil in deep pan for deep frying.
• Shape into Vadas and deep fry on both sides till brown.

Ingredients:

• Chana dal (Kadalai paruppu)- 1 cup
• Onion- 1
• Small onion- 7 to 10
• Green chili- 2
• Curry leaves- few
• Cloves- 2
• Cinnamon- 1 small piece
• Cumin seeds- 1/2 tsp
• Fennel seeds- 1/2 tsp
• Salt- to taste
• Oil- to fry

Method:

• Soak Chana dal for 2 hours. Cut Onion, Small onion and Green chili. Keep all this aside.
• Grind Chana dal, Cloves, Cinnamon, Cumin seeds, Fennel seeds and Salt without adding any water.
• Mix Onion, Small onion,Green chili and Curry leaves with ground items.
• Take a small amount of mix, flatten it lightly and shape them into round.
• Drop it carefully into hot oil, turning once in a while, deep fry till golden brown

Ingredients:

For vada:
• Urad dal (Black gram dal) – 1½ cup
• Baking powder – 2 pinch
• Salt – to taste
• Oil – to deep fry

For seasoning:

• Mustard seeds – 1/2 tsp
• Curry leaves – 1 tsp
• Green chilli – 2
• Coriander leaves – 2 tbsp
• Curd – 2 cups
• Salt – to taste

Method:

• Soak Urad dal for 2 hrs and then grind it as usual for vada.
• Add Salt and Baking powder to the ground batter, mix well.
• Make vadas from the prepared batter and deep fry them in hot Oil.
• Heat a spoon of oil. Add Mustard seeds, Curry leaves, Green chilli to it and add this to Curd.
• Now add Coriander leaves and Salt to the Curd, combine well. Then add hot vadas to the curd.
• Soak the vadas in Curd for at least 2 hrs. Serve chill.