Urad dal vada

Ingredients

Urad dal - 1 cup
Salt- 1 tbsp or to taste
Oil - For deepfry

Preparation
Wash and Soak urad dal/Black gram seeds for 3 to 4 hours or overnight.

Method 

1. Drain all the water from soaked urad dal and grind it along with salt. It is better to use wet grinder for grinding which helps to obtain soft and fluffy batter. Use very less water to make batter.
2. Take out the batter in a wide bowl and start beating it with hand for 5 minutes. It will make batter more light.Check if the batter is ready by dropping a small ball of batter in to bowl of water. If the batter floats then it is ready to use. If it sinks then you have to beat it with hand for a minute more. This step is important if you are using mixer for grinding.
3.Heat oil in a frying pan. Wetting your hand with water, take a small ball sized batter, make a hole in the middle with your thumb and drop it in to hot oil.
4. Fry these vadas until they turn brown in medium flame. Turn over and fry until another side gets golden brown.
5. Keep these fried uddina vada/medu vadas on kitchen tissue paper and repeat the process for remaining batter.

Medu vada/uddina vada is ready to be served with chutney and sambar. 

Note : If you want to add onions and ginger you can add to batter.