Dahi vada

Preparation time: 1 hrs.
Cooking time: 30 minutes
Serves: 6-8


Ingredients:

• urad daal - 100 gms
• tamarind - 50gms
• jaggery - 50gm
• roasted cumin(jeera) powder - 50gms
• red chilly powder
  
• black salt
  
• salt to taste
  
• curd -1kg
• cashew - 2 teaspoon (cut into small pieces)
• raisins - 2 teaspoon
  

• Oil for frying

Soak urad daal in a bowl for 1hr.
Soak tamarind for 15 minutes


Tamarind Chatni:

• Mash soaked tamarind and sieve it
  

• Take a pan put one teaspoon oil in a pan and put tamrind jaggeri and salt in it and cook for 15 minutes on low flame and then take it out in a bowl.

• Blend the chilled curd in a bowl and put salt in it.
  
• Put cold water in a big bowl and add some salt in it.

Vada:

Drain wash the urad daal and put in the grinder and grind to thick paste and keep aside. Put the pan on the gas and pour oil in it and let the oil heat.Now put some water on your palm and give round shape of vadas and put two three pieces of cashew, and raisins in the middle of the vadas fry it till golden brown. Take out the vadas and put it in the salted water. After 10 minutes take out the vadas squeeze it and put it in a serving dish. Now put chatni, black salt, cumin powder and chilly powder on the vadas and serve.

Note: Those who don't like sweet chatni can take without it.