Ingredients

• 1 cup - Bengal gram dal
• 1 - onion (big size)
• 2 - tomato (medium size)
• Curry leaves, small quantity
• Coriander leaves, small quantity
• Turmeric powder, small quantity
• 2 - green chillies
• 1 cup - grated or shredded coconut
• 2 tsp - ginger
• 3 - garlic
• Cumin seeds, small quantity
• Mustard, small quantity
• 2 tsp - chilli powder
• Oil for frying
• Salt to taste

How to Make Madras Vada Curry

• Soak Bengal gram dal for 3 hours. Grind adding very little water.
• Add chopped coriander leaves to the mixture and little salt. Fry them in oil as you do pakodas. Turn around and take them away while it is slightly brown.
• Grind ginger, garlic and make a paste.
• Grind green chillies and grated coconut and make it a paste.
• Heat oil in a kadai. Splutter mustard, cumin seeds, curry leaves, then fry onions, followed by tomatoes.
• Add little salt, turmeric powder, chilly powder and pour some water.
• Add the ginger paste and green chilly paste. Allow it to boil for some 10 minutes.
• Once it looks like gravy, add the broken pakodas into this and mix well.
• Vada curry can be served with idlis, dosas, chapattis and pooris.
• Recipe Courtesy: http://tamilveg.blogspot.com/