Name: Medu wada with grated coconut recipe by Ketki Wadhwani at BetterButter
Prep time: 300 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 345 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 2 cups of urad dal; 1 cup of scrapped coconut; 1 tsp jeera; 1 to 2 sprigs of kadipatta; 1 green chilli; 1 tsp Grated Ginger; 2 spoons finely chopped coriander; Salt to taste; Oil for Deep frying; Water if required to make the batter

ABOUT Medu wada with grated coconut RECIPE

What make this dish unique is addition of coconut flavour to it. It gives become soft, fluffy and light to eat.

Ingredients Serving: 4

2 cups of urad dal
1 cup of scrapped coconut
1 tsp jeera
1 to 2 sprigs of kadipatta
1 green chilli
1 tsp Grated Ginger
2 spoons finely chopped coriander
Salt to taste
Oil for Deep frying
Water if required to make the batter

Instructions

Soak the urad dal for 5 hours or overnight.
Grind the soaked dal along with scrapped coconut to a smooth batter with little water if required.
If batter become too watery, then quickly add rawa (semolina) to it
Add chopped coriander, grated ginger, green chilli, jeera, kadipatta and salt to it and mix well
Heat oil and gently make vadas & gently slid the vadas in to the oil
Oil should not be very hot else it will just brown color to it and will not be cooked from inside
Vadas should be fried on medium flame so that it get cooked from inside as well as outside
Fry all the medu vadas this way till they become evenly browned and crispy
Drain medu vadas on kitchen tissue to remove excess oil
Serve the medu vadas with warm sambar and coconut chutney.

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