Ingredients

• 8-10 - Curry leaves
• 1 cup - Dhal, urad (white)
• 1/4 tsp - Asafoetida
• 1 tsp - Pepper corns, crushed
• 1 tsp - Jeera/Cumin Seeds
• Oil for frying
• Salt to taste.

How to Make Plain Medu Vada

• Wash and soak urad dal for 6 hours. Then grind it into a fine paste.
• Now, pour the batter in a bowl, whisking it continuously to fluff it up, and give it sufficient buoyancy until it turns slightly white.
• Now add salt, asafoetida, curry leaves, cumin seeds and crushed peppercorns to the batter and mix well.
• Then heat oil in a deep bottomed frying pan.
• Now wet your palms and shape the batter into balls and make a depression with the thumb in the center like a doughnut.
• Then deep fry the vadas in medium hot oil until golden brown and crisp.
• Serve hot with sambhar and coconut chutney.