Allam Garelu - Ginger Vada | Minapa Garelu Recipe | How to make South Indian Vada
Allam Garelu / Ginger Vada / Minapa Garelu / Ulundu vadai is a traditional Vada prepared in South India. It a deep fried doughnut shaped festive snack prepared with the Urad dal and offered to God as prasadam.
Ingredients
- 1 Cup Urad dal
- 4-5 Green chilies finely chopped
- 2-3 " Ginger Allam piece, finely chopped
- 1 teaspoon Cumin Seeds
- Salt to taste
- Oil for deep frying
Instructions
Preparing the Batter:
- Wash and Soak Urad dal for 3-4 hours.
- Wash the dal again and blend to a coarse paste. Add very little water while grinding.
- Add finely chopped chilies, ginger pieces and cumin seeds.
- To this add required salt and mix well.
- Now, whip the batter for 2-3 .minutes until fluffy with the help of a spoon.
Deep Frying:
- Heat oil for deep frying, make the Garelu shape with a hole in the middle using your hand or on a plastic cover and slowly drop them into the oil. Do not over crowd the pan.
- Fry until both sides until they turn golden brown.
- Remove them out of oil and place them on a paper towel.
- Serve hot with chutney of your choice.
Recipe Video
Notes
- Adjust quantity of green chillies and ginger to suit your spice levels. You can also grind them along with urad dal while preparing batter.
- You can add a teaspoon of rice while soaking dal or add a little rice flour after grinding. The rice flour helps to get crispy vadas.
- Be sure to add as little water as you can while grinding the batter. Otherwise, the vada will not hold shape or then absorb a lot of oil.
- Be careful while dropping vada into the hot oil; Oil will splash onto your hand and burn you.
- For prasadams, usually we do not add onions. But, you can also prepare vada by adding onions, coriander or even mint leaves gives a nice aroma and taste to the vada.
- Adding mint leaves gives aroma and nice taste to the vada.
- If you have left over Garelu, just make Perugu Vada / Dahi Vada.