Masala Vadai / Masala Vadas

Masala Vadai / Masala Vadas

Masala Vadas are South Indian Special tea-time snacks which are generally deep fried and served with tea/ coffee. Today I'm sharing an Airfried version.

Ingredients:

Channa Dhal - 1 cup

Onion - 1 medium size

Fennel seeds - 1 tsp

Asafatedia - 1 tsp

Ginger - 1 inch

Red chillies - 2 nos

Green chillies - 1 no

Oil - just to brush

Salt - to taste

Chopped curry leaves and coriander leaves.

Method:

# Soak channa dhal for 1 hr. Drain the water.

# In a mixer jar add fennel seeds, red chilli, green chilli, ginger and grind without adding water. Add channa dhal in the mixer jar and grind. (no need to add water) 

# In a bowl add grinded channa dhal, chopped onion, curry leaves, coriander leaves, asafatedia and salt and mix well.

# Preheat your Airfrier for 5 min @ 200'c.

# Take marble size balls from the grinded mixture and slightly press to give shape of the Vadas.

# Arrange them in Airfrier and fry @200'c for 15 min. Inbetween brush oil and turn the Vadas.

Total time taken to fry these Vadas are 20 minutes. When you fry the second batch of Vadas it will take 15-17 minutes.

These Vadas will not stick to the Airfrier basket.

Serve them with chutney or ketchup.

Do try and provide your comments.

Thank you!