Vadai

Ingredients
Urad dal
Salt
Green chillies
Curry leaves
Oil

Get Cooking!
1. Soak the urad dal well (say about 45 mins to an hour). Drain the excess water by placing it in a colander.
2. Grind this dal with salt, green chillies. Try not adding water at all; if you have to, sprinkle ice cold water. The batter must become smooth and not watery.
3. Add the curry leaves. Mix well.
4. Heat some oil in a kadai on a low heat.
5. Wet your palms, place some batter on them; flatten it out, make a hole with your finger. Put it into the oil carefully.
6. Add enough vadais depending on the quantity of oil taken.
7. When the vadais are half done, take them out and set aside. Do the next set.
8. Now, take the set that has been kept aside; deep fry till they turn golden brown. This is to make them nice & crispy.
9. Do this to the entire ground batter.

Tips
You could add some ginger/ red chillies while grinding the batter. You could also add chopped onions. Make some rasam and place the vadais in the rasam to make rasa vadais or in sambhar to make sambhar vadais 😉