Servings:

Serves 6

Level of difficulty:

Intermediate

Ingredients

For Wadas
Urad Dal - 1Cup
Medium Onion - 1 (finely chopped)
Cumin seeds -1 table spoon
Ginger - 1 tea spoon finely chopped
Salt - to taste
Oil - For deep frying

For Dahi (Yougart)
Natural Yougart - 750gms
Medium onion - 1 finely chopped
Gren chillies - 4 slit
Salt - to taste
Corriander - just for garnish

Tampering ingredients
Oil - 3 Table spoons
Dry red chilli - 2
Cumin seeds - 1/2 tea spoon
Black mustard seeds-1/2 tea spoon
Tumeric powder - 1 teas spoon
Curry leaves - 10 leaves

Method

1. First soak the Urad dal in 3 cups of water for atleast 3 hours, better to leave it over night.

2. Wash the soaked the urad dal drain it and blend it with little water to make a smooth paste(little texture not too smooth and runny)

3. To the blended urad dal add chopped onion, cumin seeds, chopped ginger, salt and litle water mix them well.

4. In a pan heat the oil for deep frying then with a spoon or with hand drop the dal mix as small balls into the hot oil.

5. Fry them till they are gloden brown , drain them and keep a side. make all the wadas in the same procedure.

6.Whisk the yougart with little water and add some salt to it and keep a side.

7. In a small pan take 3 table spoons of oil and when tha oil is slightly hot add the tampering ingredients in this order first the red chillies, cumin seeds, mustard seeds, then the onions, green chillies, fry them for a while then add the tumeric and curry leaves.Fry them for few secondsImmediately pour all of this into the yougart.

8.Mix the tampering into yougart and add the the wadas to the seasoned yougart (the wadas should be slit slightly but retaining their shape this helps in getting the yougart inside the wadas).

9. Let this sit for a good 3 hours at room temperature which helps the wadas to be really succulent and properly coated with the seasoned yougart.Garnish with chopped corriander.

10.They are so tasty and proper authentic south indian starter dish.