Low Calorie Medu Vada Video by Tarla Dalal

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For most people, urad dal based Medu Vada is a must-have with breakfast. However, the extra calories that come out of deep-frying the batter could be troublesome. In that case, you can try this Low-Calorie Medu Vada cooked in an appe mould with minimal oil. Keep some hot, steaming sambhar ready, and dunk the vadas in them as soon as they are ready. This is very important, because vadas cooked with less oil tend to harden over time. Serving them fresh with sambhar however is doubly delightful.

Recipe Description for Low Calorie Medu Vada

Soaking time: 3 hours
Preparation Time: 5 mins
Cooking Time: 25 mins
Makes 5 servings (25 vadas)
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Ingredients

For Low Calorie Medu Vada
1 cup urad dal (split black lentils)
1 tbsp finely chopped green chillies
3 to 4 peppercorns (kalimirch)
8 to 10 curry leaves (kadi patta)
1 tsp finely chopped ginger (adrak)
salt to taste
1 tsp oil for greasing

For Serving
sambhar

Method

For low calorie medu vada

To make {span class="bold1"}low calorie medu vada{/span}, clean, wash and soak the urad dal in enough water for at-least 3 hours. Drain well.
Combine the urad dal, green chillies, peppercorns, curry leaves, ginger, salt and ½ cup of water plus 2 tablespoons in a mixer and blend till smooth.
Heat the appe mould on a medium flame and grease it using ¼ tsp of oil.
Pour a spoonful of the batter into each mould.
Cook on medium to slow heat for 2 minutes. Grease the appe with oil using a brush. Flip.
Cook again on medium to slow heat for 1 1/2 minutes.
Grease one more time the appe with a brush.
Flip and cook both sides on medium heat for 2 minutes till they turn golden brown in colour.
Serve {span class="bold1"}low calorie medu vada{/span} | {span class="bold1"}non fried medu vada{/span} | {span class="bold1"}medu vada appe{/span} | {span class="bold1"}healthy urad dal vada{/span} immediately immersed in sambhar or chutney.