How to Make Appetizing Baked Medu Vada

How to Make Appetizing Baked Medu Vada Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Baked Medu Vada. Low Calorie Medu Vada, Non fried Medu Vada by Tarla Dalal. Baked urad dal vada or baked medu vada is a healthy alternate to the traditional dish. Urad dal or Black gram used in the preparation of Medu Vada is an excellent source of minerals like iron, folic.

A healthy version of medu vada Medu Vada Recipe with step by step photos.

These are crispy, fluffy and delicious medu vada that goes very well with coconut chutney or sambar. medu vada is one of the easiest snack to make.

Medu vada (pronounced [meːd̪ʊ vəɽaː]; literally "soft vada") is a South Indian fritter made from Vigna mungo (black lentil or urad dal).

You can have Baked Medu Vada using 11 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Baked Medu Vada

1. Prepare of urad dal soaked overnight.

2. Prepare of water.

3. You need of green chilli finely chopped.

4. You need of ginger grated.

5. It’s of cumin seeds.

6. Prepare of coriander leaves chopped.

7. It’s of curry leaves chopped.

8. Prepare of black pepper powder.

9. You need of Salt.

10. You need of hing.

11. Prepare of baking soda.

It is usually made in a doughnut shape.

These are mostly made Even a pinch of baking soda is used to make them very fluffy.

These are also served as sambar vada.

If Medu Vada Batter is too thick: The Vada will shape nicely but they will be hard inside after frying.

Baked Medu Vada step by step

1. Put the soaked dal in a blender and using very little water grind into a smooth paste. Take this out in a bowl..

2. With the help of a whisk mix the batter for 8-10 mins till its light and fluffy. Now add all ingredients like ginger, hing, salt, green chilli, coriander and curry leaves, black pepper powder, cumin seeds, baking soda and mix well..

3. Take a doughnut pan and grease it well with the help of a brush and put the batter in the pan using a spoon..

4. Put the pan in a pre heated oven and bake for around 15-20 mins till it turns golden brown..

5. Dunk these into a hot bowl of sambar and serve with chutney of your choice…. I have used roasted gran dal peanut chutney….. and the sambar is also oil free version…. so enjoy this guilt free snack..

If batter is too soft: it will not be able to hold the shape and will absorb too much oil. the word medu in the medu vada, literally means soft in kannada language. basically this word is attached to this dish, to describe softness yet the crispiness it has. perhaps the udupi restaurants.

Medu vada (ulundu vadai) is a traditional dish from South Indian cuisine served with coconut chutney and sambar as a popular breakfast in most of the Indian restaurants.

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