Ingredients

• 1.5 cups- chana (small variety)
• 5-6 (mild hot) green chillies
• 1.5 inch Ginger
• 3-4 Cloves Garlic
• 1 medium sized onion (optional)
• salt to taste

How to Make Senaga Vadaa

• Soak the channa overnight the previous day. Grind the soaked chana with the chillies, ginger, garlic and salt.
• Don't make a complete thin paste of it.
• Grinding should be thick and little of channa pieces must be seen here and there.
• Take the batter in a bowl. Dice the onions into small pieces and add to the vada batter.
• Heat oil in a kadai, make small flat cakes of the batter either on your palm (moistened with water) or on an oiled / moistened plastic sheet.
• Then on medium heat, fry the vadas nicely till they appear reddish brown.
• Serve them with ketchup or with any chutney.
• But they can be had just like that too. You can add green chillies according to the degree of hotness you prefer.