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Instant dahi vada | instant dahi vada with sooji | how to make instant dahi vada | dahi bhalla

Author Nehas Cook Book
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Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Total Time 35 minutes
Course Snack, Street Food
Cuisine Indian
Servings 10 vada

Ingredients
 

For vada

  • 1 cup semolina - sooji/rava
  • ½ cup curd
  • ¼ cup water or as required
  • Salt to taste
  • 1 tsp jeera
  • 1 tsp green chilli paste
  • ½ tsp ginger paste
  • 1/8 tsp baking soda
  • Oil for deep frying

For soaking

  • 5-6 cup slightly hot water
  • Salt to taste
  • ¼ tsp hing

For sweetened curd

  • 2 cup curd
  • 4 tbsp sugar or as per your taste
  • Pinch of salt

For green chutney

  • 1 cup coriander leaves
  • ¼ cup mint leaves
  • 1 inch ginger
  • 2 green chilli
  • 1 tsp cumin seeds
  • 1 tsp chaat masala
  • 1 tbsp lemon juice
  • 1 tsp sugar
  • 1 tbsp roasted chana dal
  • Salt to taste
  • ¼ cup water

For khatti-meethi gud imli chutney

  • ½ cup tamarind pulp
  • ¾ cup jaggery or as per your taste
  • ½ tsp cumin powder
  • ½ tsp red chilli powder
  • ½ tsp black salt
  • Salt to taste
  • ¼ tsp ginger powder

For Assembling

  • Green chutney
  • Tamarind chutney
  • Roasted cumin powder
  • Red chilli powder
  • Chaat masala
  • Pomegranate seeds
  • Coriander leaves

Instructions

Making vada for dahi vada

  • In a mixture jar, add semolina (sooji/rava). Grind it into fine powder.
  • Now add grinded powder into the mixing bowl. also, add curd and water gradually and make a thick batter.
  • Cover and rest the batter for 15 minutes.
  • Add 1-2 tablespoons of water and whisk the batter for 5 minutes till it becomes light and fluffy.
  • Then add salt, cumin seeds, green chilli paste and ginger paste. Mix well.
  • Now add baking soda and mix well with the batter. prepare a medium-thick batter.
  • Now with wet fingers or a spoon, drop a spoonful of batter into the hot oil.
  • keeping the flame on medium, stirring occasionally. fry until the vada turns golden brown and crisp.
  • drain off the vada with a wire rack to remove excess oil.
  • now in a large bowl take 5-6 cups of slightly hot water. add ½ tsp salt and ¼ tsp hing. mix well making sure it is well combined.
  • now drop the hot fried vada into the water and dip completely.
  • soak only for 10 minutes, so vada absorbs water and becomes juicy. Do not soak it for a longer time.
  • then squeeze off the water and transfer it to the plate.

Make sweetened curd for Dahi vada

  • firstly, take 2 cup curd and sieve it.
  • then add 4-5 tbsp sugar and ½ tsp salt.
  • mix well making sure everything is well combined.

Making green chutney

  • In a mixing jar, add green coriander leaves, mint leaves, green chilli, ginger, cumin seeds, chaat masala, lemon juice, sugar, roasted chana dal, salt and cold water.
  • grind it into a smooth paste.
  • Green chutney is ready.

Making gud imli ki chutney

  • In a pan, add tamarind pulp and jaggery. Mix well
  • Cook till jaggery is completely dissolved.
  • Then add cumin powder, red chilli powder, black salt, salt and ginger powder. Mix well.
  • Switch off the gas and the chutney is ready.

Assembling dahi vada

  • Place vada on a plate. pour the sweetened curd over the vada.
  • Then spread a generous amount of green chutney and tamarind chutney.
  • sprinkle chilli powder, cumin powder, and chaat masala.
  • top with pomegranate seeds and coriander.
  • enjoy Instant dahi vada chilled.

Notes

  • grind rava into a fine powder, so will easily bind into vada batter.
  • the proportion of curd should be half that rava.
  • make a thick batter for vada and rest batter for 10-15 minutes so rava is properly soaked and puffed up.
  • whisk batter for 3-4 minutes in one direction, so air particles incorporate into it and it becomes light and fluffy.
  • pinch of baking soda helps to make fluffy vada.
  • Fry vada on medium flame.
  • Dahi vada tastes great when it is soft, juicy, and served chilled.