VadaCurry #1

Ingredients :

  Onion - 1 (finely chopped)
  Tomato - 1 (finely chopped)
  Coconut - 2 tbsp
  Green Chilly - 4
  Garlic Pods - 6
  Ginger - small piece (peel & clean)
  Clove - 2
  Cinnamon - small piece
  Fennel Seeds - 1/2 tsp
  Salt - Add accordingly as we add in vada too.
  Oil, Water - As reqd

  For Vada: (soak in water for an hour and strain water and keep aside)
   Channa dhal - 1/4 cups.
   Red Chilly - 1
   Fennel Seeds - 1/2 tsp
   Salt - Little 

Method:

• Heat sufficient oil and fry the pakodas/vadas and keep asdie.
• Crush these into small pieces.
• Now heat a spoon of oil and add cloves, cinnamon, fennel seeds, ginger, garlic, chilly and coconut.
• Saute for a while, bring it to room temperature and then grind it to a paste.
• Heat oil in pan add onion,tomato, turmeric and saute for a while.
• Now add grinded paste and water.
• Add salt and let it boil for 5-8 minutes.
• Now add crushed pakodas/vada and boil for 3-4 minutes.
• Garnish with corriander leaves.
• Goes good with dosa, idly and rice.

Note: They make this gravy out of left over pakodas/vada. I make fresh vada/pakodas for this recipe