How to make Dahi Vada

Welcome to my kitchen, Today we will make Dahi Vada

Dahi vada is a popular North Indian snack which can be prepared using some easily available ingredients in your kitchen. Dahi Vada is a famous North Indian side dish that you can enjoy anytime. This tasty snack consist of fried urad dal dumplings dunked in whipped yogurt topped with spicy and sweet chutneys. Dahi vada is one of the classic north Indian chaat snacks that are sold as a street food across India. It tastes best when served with a dinner or lunch meal. You can add your own masala of flavors to this recipe, however, the basic recipe will remain the same. You can just tweak some spices as per your taste preference and enjoy the delicious flavors of this traditional recipe. so let's go and see how to make Dahi vada.

Ingredients for Vada

• Ingredients for Vada
• 1 cup urad dal
• 1 green chili - chopped
• ½ inch ginger - chopped
• 1 teaspoon cumin seeds
• 1 pinch asafoetida (hing)
• water for grinding the daal or as required
• ½ tablespoon raisins
• 8 to 9 cashews - chopped
• salt as required

Masala Ingredients for Dahi vada

• 500ml curd
• chaat masala as required
• ¼ to ½ teaspoon red chili powder
• 1 teaspoon roasted cumin powder
• black salt as required

Ingredients for tamarind sweet chutney

• ½ cup seedless tamarind
• water
• ½ teaspoon ginger powder (saunth)
• 1 pinch asafoetida (hing)
• ½ teaspoon cumin seeds
• ¼ teaspoon red chili powder
• 7 to 8 tablespoon jaggery or as required you can add.
• rock salt or black salt
• 1 teaspoon oil

Ingredients for green chutney

• 2 cups coriander leaves
• (cilantro leaves)
• 1 or 1.5 teaspoon anardana (dry pomegranate seeds) or ½ to 1 teaspoon amchur powder (dry mango powder)
• ½ tablespoon chopped onion (optional)
• 1 or 2 garlic cloves
• salt as required
• water as required

First we will see how to make sweet chutney

Step 1:- Soak  and keep tamarind in water overnight or for 4-5 hours in a small bowl or pan.

Step 2:- Squeeze the pulp from the tamarind in the same bowl or pan. and keep aside.

Step 3:- Now Heat oil in a small pan.  keep gas flame in low.

Step 4:- Now add cumin seeds and let them crackle. Add ginger powder, red chili powder, asafetida.

Step 5:- Now add the tamarind pulp. cook for 2-3 mins.

Step 6:- Add the jaggery and salt and cook for 4-5 mins more. when your mixture would thicken. let the sweet chutney mixture cool.

Step 7:- You can store the sweet saunth chutney in an air-tight dry jar or container.

Now we will make green chutney

Green chutney is too easy to make.

Grind the all ingredients in grinder. like 2 cups coriander leaves,1 or 1.5 teaspoon dry pomegranate seeds)  if you have not pomegranate seeds so you can add ½ to 1 teaspoon amchur powder (dry mango powder), ½ tablespoon chopped onion (it is optional),1 or 2 garlic cloves, salt according to taste, add water as required.

Remove and keep aside in a small bowl.

Now we will prepare the batter for Dahi vada

Step 1:- Wash the lentils for 3-4 times in water.

Step 2:- Soak the lentils in enough water overnight or for 4-5 hours.

Step 3:- Drain dal completely and put it to a blender jar along with  chopped green chilies, chopped ginger, cumin seeds and asafoetida.

Step 4:- Blend it coarsely first, then add a tbsp of water at one time and grind it again.

Step 5:- Adding 1tbsp  water if needed. Do not add too much water. otherwise, the batter turns runny.

Step 6:- If the blender jar will be too warm.then wait for cools down. and then again you can start to blend

Step 7:- Take the ground batter in a bowl. start to bland well. keep blending until you get a smooth, thick and fluffy batter

Step 8:- Add the raisins and chopped cashews along with salt. stir well and keep aside.

Now will frying vada.

Step 1:-Heat the oil in Kadai on medium flame.

Step 2:-when the oil is hot enough, drop a very small amount of batter. you can be using your oil greased finger to drop the batter.

Step 3:-Do not hurry, to turn it.

Step 4:-Fry the vada till they become golden and crisp.

Step 5:-Place all vada on kitchen paper towels so that excess oil is absorbed.

Step 6:-In another bowl takes warm water. and add the vada to the water. soak them for 18-20 minutes.

Now Serve Dahi vada with green chutney, sweet chutney, and masala.

Step 1:-Take each vada and press between your palms to remove excess water.

Step 2:-Place these vada in the serving bowl.

Step 3:-Whisk the curd thoroughly. till become smooth. and then pour the yogurt over the vadas.

Step 4:-Put in the top the green chutney and tamarind chutney as required.

Step 5:-Sprinkle the red chili powder, roasted cumin powder, chaat masala, and black salt.

Step 6:-Garnish it with chopped coriander leaves. Serve Dahi vada.

Step 7:- If you like cool curd so you can keep the curd in  refrigerate and serve later.