Vazhakaai / Plantain Vadai

Ingredients:

Vazhakaai - 1
Onion - 1 (fine chop)
Moong dal - 1/2 cup
Channa dal - 1/2 cup
Dry Red Chilly - 3
Green Chilly - 1
Ginger - Small piece
Garlic - 4
Fennel seeds - 3/4 tsp
Curry Leaves - a sprig
Salt, Oil, Water - As reqd

Method:

• Roughly cut and pressure cook plantain for a whistle.
• Carefully peel the skin off and add the plantain pieces to a bowl.
• Add these pieces to strainer to remove excess water.
• Now add this to bowl and mash it.
• Soak the dal in water for.
• To the blender add in chilly, garlic, crushed ginger.
• Add in salt and fennel seeds and blend it.
• Strain the water from dal completely.
• Add this to blender and blend coarsely.
• Add this to mashed plantain.
• Add in fine chopped onion, curry leaves.
• Mix this well.
• Heat oil in pan and fry these vadas.
• Server hot with chutney or sambar.
• Yields 20-22 vadas.