Ingredients

• 1 cup - Urad dal
• 1 tsp - rice flour
• 1/2 tsp - pepper corns
• Salt to taste
• Oil for frying

How to Make Milagu Vadai

• Clean the urad dal and soak it for 30 minutes
• Drain, grind the dal by sprinkling a little water, to a coarse paste.
• Add the pepper corns and salt
• Just give a pulse or two to break the pepper corns and take the coarse paste in a bowl.
• To this urad dal paste, add rice flour and 1 tsp of hot oil and mix well
• Take a plastic paper and grease it with oil.
• Take 1 lemon size ball of the urad dal batter and place it on top of the plastic paper
• Cover the plastic paper with another greased plastic paper
• Place a flat bowl on top of the cover and press the bowl gently to make a flat round vada as thin as possible. Apply the pressure evenly.
• The patti should be very thin to get a crispy vada.
• Gently remove the top cover and with a wet index finger make a hole in the middle.
• Heat oil in a heavy bottomed pan.
• Gently remove the plastic cover from the vadai patti and deep fry all the vadas.
• Drain excess oil on a kitchen towel.
• Serve.
• Recipe courtesy: Subbu's Kitchen