Uddina Vade | Urad Dal Vada | Black Gram fritters – South Indian Breakfast Recipe

Uddina vade / Urad dal vada is healthy South Indian recipe prepared for breakfast or snacks. Uddina vade is often eaten along with Idli chutney and sambar, popular menu in all restaurants here. Today I have come up with a very crispy version of urad dal vada, usually only salt and pepper goes in this menu, but I have shown with onions and green chillies along with curry and coriander leaves to make them crispier.

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Urad dal is well known for its rich protein source. When Vada or fritters are made with Uddina bele / urad dal / black gram dal they are not only tasty but are healthy, good food for growing children. 

We have grown up eating uddina vada, my mom would prepare on a Sunday uddina vade itself as a breakfast along with spicy chutney that would make our day !!!. Not sure how many would prepare only vada for breakfast but we loved this as a morning feast. The nutritive vadas are a wholesome and filling meal which provides energy you require for the whole day.

So even I make uddina vade and chutney for a Sunday breakfast, when we need not make any special recipes for rest of the day. Vadas can also be prepared for lunch as a side dish which goes really well with sambar. In our home, like many others prepare it on festive days as a part of the elaborate meal. The one such dish that everyone loves are vadas. Not to mention that many people have vadas even before the meal is prepared. Such is the fondness the yummy traditional uddina vade has, that can probably have any replacement. It's time you too prepare them… treat your family…J

You can also find simple and easy to cook breakfast recipes like traditional akki roti, south Indian paddu, quick kadlepuri uppitu, mango rice, side-dishes like sweet chutney, Haalu Obbattu, spicy peanut chutney, beetroot chops, tomato chutney  and many more. 

Uddina Vade | Urad Dal Vada | Black Gram fritters – crispier recipe Cuisine: Indian / South Indian Cook time: 20 minutes Servings: 15

Ingredients  Urad dal – 2 cups Onions – 2 small Green chillies – 4 finely chopped Peppercorns – ¼ teaspoon Rice flour - 2 tablespoons Oil – for deep fry Curry leaves – few Coriander leaves – few strands

Instructions  Wash and Soak urad dal/ black gram dal for about 2 hours or max 3 hours Grind soaked urad dal to thick batter add peppercorns while grinding, grind with very little water – 4 to 5 tablespoons water Remove batter to a bowl, add finely chopped onions, green chillies, curry and coriander leaves and rice flour, salt Give a good mix Heat oil in the pan for deep fry Take some batter in the hand and make a hole in the centre and drop in the oil slowly Cook vada both sides on medium flame until they turn golden brown

Note:

• Soak urad dal only for about 2 to 3 hours, not required more than three hours. vada absorbs more oil when left soaked for long hours
• By adding rice flour you get crispy Uddina vade 
• Add salt only before frying them, do not add salt and store the batter. then batter turns out watery. 
• Can divide the batter into portions and fry in batches as and when required and add salt only to that portion you need to fry immediate
• Avoid chopped green chillies for kids, instead add pepper powder 
• Instead of grinding peppercorns with urad dal, can add coarsely powdered pepper to the batter, after grinding the dal
• Dip hand in water and make vadas, this way batter will not stick to your hands while making urad vada / uddina vade / black gram fritters

Tip:

For beginners, who is unable to make hole in the middle can use spoon and drop small balls of batter into the oil and fry them to brown 

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How to make Uddina Vade | Urad Dal Vada | Black Gram fritters – crispier recipe

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Wash and Soak urad dal/ black gram dal for about 2 hours or max 3 hours

Grind soaked urad dal to thick batter add peppercorns while grinding, grind with very little water – 4 to 5 tablespoons water

Chop onions, green chillies, curry and coriander leaves

Remove batter to a bowl, add finely chopped onions, green chillies, curry and coriander leaves and rice flour, salt. Give a good mix

Take some batter in the hand and make a hole in the centre and drop in the oil slowly

Cook vada both sides on medium flame until they turn golden brown

Hot crispy Uddina vade / Urad dal vada / Black Gram fritters are ready to be served