Chana dal Vada, Paruppu vada is traditional south indian recipe.This vada is famous for tea time snacks because of its flavour and crispness. This one easy to make vada for any beginner in cooking.
Chana dal is loaded with good source of nutrition.Including this vada as snack is healthy choice. You can use chana vada for pooja (avoid garlic)and potluck
While starting , i used to make chana vada for evening snack for long years, nowadays moved the snack time vada into lunch time vada along with rasam or variety rice on saturday. Here are reason to make vad for weekend lunch menu.
In ,UNIJOU, you are going to read the preparation of recipe along with tips for mommies and utilizing recipe during diet . You also come to know how to efficiently make recipe adapting to your day to day lifestyle without wasting (keeping leftover in fridge and throwing in trash after 2 days).
To say the truth, most of the time we end up wasting food or after eating some oily or sugary food,most of us think why we had so much of food while following diet for long time .
For Mommies with small kids,
Mommies with young kids, make chana dal along with lunch time will be best way to reduce your cooking time and washing time.
While grinding vada for lunch , either fry few for evening snacks or just take some amount of grinded dal in box and keep it in fridge use it in evening for snack time.
This way helped me a lot to avoid the wastage of food, and same time everyone had enough vada in the afternoon and snack time because most of the kids are very very picky eaters !!
For Mommies who are in active diet ,
Deep fried is one of the biggest enemy for your diet .
Handling diet and making deep fried food for loved one is really tricky process.
Here , sharing my own tips how to stay strong with your diet and same way make deep fried vada without breaking your diet mommies.
If you are mommy , who is in active diet process and want to avoid the deep fried food , make the vada as lunch time menu is one of the best option.
Here are the reasons ,
1. You can eat vada very less number (you are in diet) along with your family and you have rest of the day time to utilize energy to burn that the calorie.
2. If you make vada for snack then high chance of eating too much vada and the time for utilizing the energy is very low.
3. Mostly , if you are in diet then you need to load with healthy protein in the time between 3 to 5 pm to get energy for the rest of the evening time.
4. If You make vada for lunch time then, you can tell your taste bud that no deep fried vada for the evening time because you already done for the day in the lunch time.
5. After 6 pm you are not with heavy food thats the key point.
Above are best way to save your energy and avoid wasting food and spoiling your health.
Managing kids, taking care of your health is not easy process. Mommies you can’t go for full diet like saying everyone has to eat low calorie because you are in diet and you need your energy to take care of your family . Balancing your everyday food along with your family menu is one of the best way to carry on your weight in healthy way.
Make this yummy chana vada on weekend or in weekdays for lunch time and snack time recipe.
Chana dal vada for lunch and snack time recipe
Equipment
- deep frying pan, mixing bowl,small mixie jar, long ladle.
Ingredients
- 1 cup Chana dal
- 1/2 tsp Fennel seeds(sombu)
- 2 medium Garlic
- 3 to 4 number Dried Red chilli
- 1 medium Onion(chopped into fine
- 1 tblsp Coriander leaves
- 1 sprig Curry leaves
- Oil for deep frying
- salt as needed
Instructions
- Wash chana dal with water and soak it for 1 hour in a bowl.
- After one hour ,drain the water completely and separate into plate.
- Take small mixie jar , add the peeled garlic, dried red chilli , fennel seeds ,salt and 2tblp of drained chana dal. Grind together coarsely by mixing in between without adding add any water.Check the dal is binding together in you palm.Transfer to wide bowl.
- Now ,add the remaining drained chana dal , grind it coarsely without adding water.Like pulse it a few time to get coarse dal.
- Collect all the grinded dal in wide bowl and then add finely chopped onion,coriander leaves,curry leaves. Give nice mix together.
- Taste for salt and spice level and adjust accordingly.
- Make small balls and flatten it to a good vada shape in your palm and smooth the edges.
- On medium flame ,heat oil in deep pan .
- Divide the vada dough into desired numbers .Medium you can make 12 numbers.
- Check oil is hot enough by gently dropping small portion of vada dough to the oil.
- The dough must rise without resting on the bottom of the oil.
- In good hot oil , gently slide the vada one by one
- Makesure ,the dough is having enough space to cook without overlapping.
- Cook vada o both sides till golden brown color and drain on paper towel
- Serve hot vada for lunch time along with rasam ,variety rice or as evening snack.
