A Travancore masterpiece item in sadya. Tiny vada 's soaked in rich and spicy coconut stew gravy makes this curry the show stopper in vishu sadya. Wishing you all a happy and prosperous Vishu.
Ingredients
Vada
- 3/4 cup Urad dal (uzhunnu) soaked for 3-4 hrs
- 3 Small onions chopped
- 1/4 tsp pepper crushed
- 1 tsp semolina (rava)
- curry leaves
- salt
Stew
- 2 potatoes peeled and cubed
- 2 onions
- 1 tsp mustard
- 3 dry chilies
- 3 tbsp. oil
- 1 tsp ginger chopped
- 2 green chilies chopped
- 1/2 tsp chilli powder
- 1 tsp coriander powder
- 11/2 tsp garam masala powder
- 1/4 tsp turmeric powder
- 1 cup thin coconut milk plus 1 cup thick coconut milk
- curry leaves
- salt
In a blender make a thick batter of soaked dal . Add all the other ingredients and mix well . Heat oil in a pan and gently drop one tsp. of batter in hot oil and deep fry until it is golden brown. Now for stew, in a pan add oil, mustard, curry leaves and dry chilies. Once the mustard stop sputtering add onion, potato, greenchillies, ginger and all the dry powders. Sauté this for 2 min and add thin coconut milk . In medium flame cook the potatoes in coconut milk for about ten minutes. When the potatoes are cooked properly add the thick coconut milk along with vadas .Give it a nice stir and garnish with curry leaves.
Do Note
The batter of urad dal should be made with very less water .
Almost 20 small vadas can be made from this recipe ,no need to put all that in stew .10 -12 vadas is ideal for this recipe.
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