Green Gram Dhal Vadai

Ingredients

1. Green Gram Dhal - 2 cups
2. Ginger - The size of your index finger
3. Salt - To Taste
4. Green Chillies or Serano Peppers - 2
5. A Pinch of Asfoetida (Optional)
6.Oil to Fry - 2 cups (Either Canola oil or Sunflower oil)
7. Onions (1 medium sized) (Optional)

Method

1. Soak the green gram dhal in water for about a day or two till it starts sprouting.
2. Cut the onion into tiny pieces.
3. Drain the water and grind the green gram with the ginger, chillies, salt.
4. Add a pinch of asfoetida and the onion and mix well.
5. Heat the oil in a frying pan in medium flame for about 5 mins.
6. Test the oil by dropping a small bit of the ground Vadai mixture, the ball should come bubbling up.
7. Now grease a sheet or the palm of your hands and take a large table spoon of the mixture and make it into a flat circle, put a whole in the middle and drop it carefully into the frying pan and wait till the Vadai browns on both sides.
8. Strain the oil from the vadai and take it out of a frying pan.

Your vadais are ready to eat

Can be served with chutney and sambhar.