Black Eyed Beans Vada / Vellai Karamani Vengaya Vadai / Alasanda Ullipaya Vadai
During this vacation, I felt like making some healthy snack for the kids. Meantime, I did not want to spend more time too. Black Eyed beans vadai suddenly flashed in my mind which I made couple of times before. As black eyed beans is a good source of protein, dietary fiber, its a good choice for making the vadas. Taste of these crispy vadais is unique and to me, it has a mix of both Dal Vada and Medhu Vada. I added a bunch of spinach leaves to add more nutrient value to the snack. Try this out and serve this delicious crispy, tasty vadas to the kids..
Ingredients
Black Eyed Beans / Alasanda / Vellai Karamani / Lobia-- 2 Cups
Urad Dal / Ulutham Paruppu / Minna Pappu - 1 tbsp
Rice Flour - 1 tbsp
Red Onion shredded - 1 to 2 cups depending on your taste.
Spinach Leaves shredded - 1.5 cups
Salt - To Taste
Hing \ Asafoetida - 1 Dash
Ginger - 1 small square
Green Chillies - 3 or 4
For Extra Punch to Adults
Crushed Garlic - 2 tbsp
Sombu / fennel seeds / Somfu - 1 tbsp
Fine cut green chillies - 5 or 6 big ones
Method
Soak the Black eyed beans and urad dal in warm water for 3 to 4 hours. Drain the water and grind the black eyed beans along with urad dal, ginger, green chillies to a coarse paste. Add rice flour, salt, red onion pieces, shredded spinach leaves , hing to the vadai mixture and mix everything together. Meantime, heat oil in the frying pan. When you see some slight fumes on top of the oil, start dropping the vadas into the oil carefully. Fry them equally on both sides and drain them out of the oil when they turn into golden brown. Serve hot with hot chutneys.
Variations / Tips
No need to add water at all while grinding. If required, just sprinkle some water on its top and grind.
For adults, add the extra ingredients to the vadai mixture and make them. The vadais would exactly taste like street side hot vadas...
