Garelu(vada)

Ingredients:

1 cup Urad dal
1 finely chopped onion
3 finely chopped green chillies
2″ ginger chopped
1 small bunch of coriander leaves chopped
1 string curry leaves(Chopped)
salt to taste
A pinch of baking soda

Procedure:

1)Soak urad dal for 4-5 hours and grind the soaked dal to a paste in small batches sprinkling little water and salt (Dough for garelu should be very thick)
2)Mix all the other ingredients to the paste.
3)Take oil in a pan for deep frying.
4)When the oil is hot(drop a piece of dough and the dough should immediately rise to the top), wet your hands with water and take a lemon sized ball and flatten it into a vada on a wet paper towel or banana leaf or wax paper.
5)Make a hole in the centre of the garelu so that it cooks evenly all over.

6)Slowly drop it into the hot oil carefully and fry it on both sides on medium heat to a golden brown color.
7)Serve hot with peanut or coconut chutney. This can go excellent with sambar,chicken or mutton curry as well.