Medhu Vadai Recipe | Ulundu Vadai Recipe | Startup Cooking

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Medhu Vadai is one of the popular breakfast recipe in South Indian Cuisine. It is a crispy and savory deep fried fritter made from whole urad dal (without skin), onion, green chillies, coriander leaves, ginger, curry leaves and salt. It's also a popular street food of Tamil Nadu and also is available in most of the road side shops and hotels. 

In Tamil Nadu it is called as Ulundu Vadai. This recipe is quite simple to prepare and easy to make with available ingredients at home. Serve this medhu vadai with a cup of hot tea as evening snack, or serve with sambar or coconut chutney.

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The process of making this vadai at home is not difficult once you know the trick to get the perfect consistency of the batter. You can add your own twist of flavors to this recipe. This snack is great for kids birthday parties, evening snack, special occasions, festivals, pot lucks or any get-together. Follow my step by step photo recipe to prepare Medu Vada. If you like this recipe share it, tweet it and pin it. Please do try and post your comments.

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RECIPE FOR MEDHU VADAI

Coarse      : Snack

Cuisine     : South Indian

Author      : Jayashree Karthik

Prep Time : 15 min

Cook Time: 15 min

Soak Time : 4 hours

Total Time : 4 hr 30 min

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INGREDIENTS

• 1 cup whole urad dal 

• 1/2 cup onion - finely chopped

• 3 green chillies - chopped

• 1 inch ginger - chopped

• 3 tbsp coriander leaves - chopped

• 1 spring curry leaves - chopped

• 1/4 tsp hing / asafoetida

• salt to taste

• oil - for deep fry

• water - if needed

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PROCEDURE

• wash and soak the whole urad dal (without skin) in water for 4-5 hours

• drain the water and add urad dal in mixer grinder 

• sprinkle water little by little and grind to a smooth and fluffy batter

• this whole process will take around 15-20 minutes

• transfer the batter into the bowl and add finely chopped onions, green chilli, ginger, coriander leaves, curry leaves, hing and salt

• mix well with your hands and keep aside

• heat enough oil in kadai

• now wet your right hand and pinch a small batter from the bowl and make a small ball and again wet your thumb finger and make a hole in the middle of the ball and then gently drop in hot oil

• fry the vadai in medium flame until it turns golden brown and crispy texture and then flip over the vadai to other side and cook evenly

• once the vadai is cooked thoroughly, remove the vadai from the kadai and drain the excess oil in paper towel

• serve with sambar and coconut chutney

• taste delicious 😋 

NOTES

• When you fry the vadas, make sure the oil is not too hot, or else it will not cook them from inside. Always keep the oil to medium hot so that the vadas are cooked from inside
• if the medhu vadai batter becomes too runny, add rice flour and adjust the consistency of the batter
• adjust spice level according to your taste
• here i used mixie and you can also use wet grinder and grind the batter
• add salt only before making vadai or else the batter turns watery
• you can also add crushed black pepper corn and make vadai

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MEDU VADA WITH STEP BY STEP 

PHOTO RECIPE

wash and soak whole urad dal in water for 4-5 hours

drain the water and add urad dal in mixer grinder

sprinkle little water and grind to a smooth and fluffy batter

for the right consistency of the batter, drop a small batter in water and it should float, that is the right consistency

wipe all the batter and transfer into bowl

add finely chopped onion, curry leaves, coriander leaves, ginger, green chillies, hing and salt

mix well

wet your right hand

pinch a small batter and make a ball

make a small hole in the center

like this 👇🏽

gently drop the prepared vadai in hot oil

fry on medium flame until it turns crispy and golden brown

flip over to other side and cook evenly

remove the vadai from oil and drain the excess oil

serve with sambar or coconut chutney

Medhu Vadai