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Methi-makai na vada | methi-makai dhebra | Gujarati methi-makai vada with chutney

Author Nehas Cook Book
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Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Total Time 25 minutes
Course Breakfast, Snack
Cuisine Gujarati, Indian
Servings 4

Ingredients
 

For methi-makai vada

  • 2 cup or 60 grm fresh methi leaves
  • 3-4 green chilli
  • 1 inch ginger
  • 4-5 green garlic cloves
  • 3 tbsp oil
  • 1 tsp ajwain
  • Pinch of hing
  • 2 tbsp sesame seeds
  • Salt to taste
  • ¼ tsp turmeric powder
  • 1 tsp coriander powder
  • 1 tsp red chlli powder
  • ¼ tsp garam masala
  • 3 tbsp jaggery
  • 1 cup sour buttermilk or ½ cup curd
  • 1.5 cup makki ka atta - maize flour
  • ½ cup wheat flour
  • ½ cup coriander leaves
  • ½ tsp baking soda
  • ½ tsp lemon juice
  • Garnish: sesame seeds

For green chutney

  • ½ cup green garlic
  • 2 cup fresh coriander leaves
  • ½ inch ginger
  • 3 green chilli
  • ½ tsp cumin seeds
  • Salt to taste
  • 1 tbsp lemon juice
  • ½ tsp sugar
  • 1 tbsp roasted chana dal
  • ¼ cup cold water to grind chutney

Instructions

Making methi- makai vada

  • Wash methi leaves with fresh water and soak them 10 minutes into salt water.
  • Remove from water and chop them. Keep it aside.
  • Then in a mixture jar, add green chilli, ginger and garlic. Grind it.
  • Now in a pan, add oil, ajwain, hing, sesame seeds, and greenchilli-ginger-garlic paste. Sauté it.
  • Then add methi leaves and salt. sauté till methi leaes become soft and oil separate from the sides.
  • Now add turmeric powder, red chilli powder, coriander powder and garam masala and jaggery. Mix well.
  • Switch off the flame and add masala into mixing bowl.
  • Then add makkai ka atta, wheat flour, coariander leaves, and salt.  mix everything into flour.
  • Add buttermilk gradually and knead soft dough.
  • Now cover the dough and rest it for 30 minutes.
  • After resting time, dough is slightly soft then add baking soda and pour lemon juice on it to active it. mix well.
  • Now, grease your palm with oil and make round disc shape vada. You can also make vada on wet cotton cloth.
  • Heat oil in a pan, add vada and deep fried on medium flame.
  • Take out fried vada on wire rack or tissue paper and serve with green chutney.

Making green garlic chutney

  • In a mixture jar, add chopped green garlic, coriander leaves, ginger, green chilli, cumin seeds, salt, lemon juice, sugar, roasted chana dal and some cold water.
  • Grind it into smooth paste.
  • Green garlic chutney is ready. Serve with vada.

Notes

  • roasted methi-masala mixture increase taste and shelf-life of vada.
  • use sour buttermilk or curd while kneading vada dough.
  • rest dough for minimum 30 minutes so flour will soak properly.
  • addition of baking soda helps to fluffy vada.
  • fry vada on medium flame till it become crispy from both the sides.