Ingredients

• Soak
• 200 g - Toor dal
• 200 g- Channa dal (1:1 ratio)
• 100 g - Moong dal
• 50 g- Dried peanuts
• 50 g - Almonds
• 50 g- Urad dal
• Soak all dals for 1 hour.
• 3 - 4 - Red chillies
• 1 tsp - Asafoetida
• 2 sprigs - Curry leaves
• Salt to taste
• Onions -1-2, finely chopped
• Green peas - 50 g
• Ginger - 1 small piece, scraped
• Fried cashews (optional)- 5-8

How to Make Simple Masala Vada

• Soak all the dals for 1 hour.
• Then coarse grind all the dals, with little water along with 3 or 4 red chillies, asafoetida, curry leaves and salt in a mixer or a food processor.
• Now mix the ground dals with finely chopped onions, green peas, finely scraped ginger and the fried cashews .
• Make small flat rounds of the mixture on your palm and keep aside.
• Heat oil for deep frying in a pan and drop these rounds in the hot oil slowly and fry until brown on both the sides.
• Remove the vadas and place in a paper towel to remove excess oil.
• Serve hot with chutney.