Recipe: Tasty Baked Medu Vada

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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 cook Baked Medu Vada using 7 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Baked Medu Vada

1. It’s of Akha Urad dal.

2. Prepare of rice flour.

3. It’s of curry leaves chopped.

4. You need of green chillies chopped.

5. Prepare of Salt.

6. It’s of peppercorns.

7. Prepare of Grated ginger.

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. Clean and soak dal for 5-6 hours. Grind dal with 2-3 tbsp water. The batter should not be rubbery or runny.

2. Add curry leaves, ginger, peppercorns, rice flour, green chillies and salt, grind coarsely.

3. Leave batter to ferment for 3-4 hours, this adds better taste. If you are in hurry, add 1/4 teaspoon baking soda and whisk well.

4. Preheat oven to 180. There are 2 ways of baking Vadas. I have baked it in donut moulds to get perfect shape. In case you do not have the molds, then line baking tray with parchment paper and grease it.

5. For Donut moulds, grease it, pour the batter and level evenly. Brush tops with oil. For baking tray, drop batter on tray, gently flatten with wet fingers and make hole in centre with index finger. Leave gaps between the Vadas. Brush tops with oil, this will prevent Vadas from drying out while baking.

6. Bake for 25-35 minutes until golden brown and crisp. If baking Vadas on tray, then flip the Vadas after 70 percentage time is elapsed for even browning.

7. Allow to cool for 15 minutes. Serve warm with sambar or chutney.

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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