Vada

Ingredients:
1 cup Urad Daal (also know as black lentil or black gram)
1 medium red onion finely chopped
1 ¼ tsp fresh finely chopped Ginger
1 ½ tbl black pepper corns – to taste
1-2 green chilies finely chopped
¼ tsp ground cumin
1/2 tsp salt – to taste
2 cups vegetable oil for frying
Rice flour if needed to thicken batter

Directions
Pick, wash and soak daal for ½ to 1 hour.

Grind them coarsely in a blender. With a few drops of water. Just enough to hold batter together

Now add onions, ginger, green chilies, cumin, salt and mix well and set aside for 5 minutes. Thicken with rice flour if necessary to make batter thick enough to form a ball that holds its shape. Create the donut shape by pressing the center with you thumb. Dip fingers in water to keep dough from sticking to your hands.

Deep fry Vada till golden on one side flip and do the same on other side

Serve with chutney as a breakfast or with sambar or rasam as a meal.