Friday, March 4, 2011

Vadala Pulusu/ chanadal crisps in tangy tamarind sauce

Do you know this !!! really tasty dish,a nice treat for guests.
My parents used to come to us and i used to plan do that,to do this and plenty
But u know my momm,she never allows me to touch a single thing when she is there i our house.She does everything and asks me to take rest...
Coolll!!! but how can i make my father taste my food ???
So once my dad came alone to pune for some official purpose,so i got time to make him taste a treat.But its thursday...we dont eat non-veg
So tried this,which i had in a friend's home when i was at my schooling !!!!!!!

Required:

For Vadala pulusu/ chanadal crisps in tangy tamarind sauce
2 onions.
One tomato.
Tamarid size of a small lemon (Soak it in water for 10mins).
Vadalu
salt - according to taste
turmeric powder - a pinch
chilli powder - according to taste

For vadalu:

chana dal - 2 cup ( soaked in water for 3 hours)
salt - 1 tblsp
chlli powder- 1 tblsp
ginger - small piece
garlic- 3-4 pods
onions- 1 ( cut into small pieces)
oil for deep fry
For seasoning:
Cumin seeds ( Jeera )   : half teaspoon
Mustard seeds ( Rai )   : half teaspoon
Garlic    : half teaspoon
Red chillies   : 2 broken into half
Curry leaves
Dry Red chillies.
Oil for making tadka.   :2 tblsp
Salt to taste.
Turmeric powder.

Procedure:
First let us prepare vadalu/ chandal crisps
Grind the soaked chanadal,with the ginger and garlic.
add salt,chilli powder,small pieces of onion,mix well
Now heat oil for deep fry
Make chandal mixture into round balls and press flat in between your two palms ( look at the pic)
and fry them till they are reddish.
Take them out from kadai and put on some tissue to absorb oil.

For pulusu / tangy sauce:

Now heat oil for tadka,add all ingredients.Cut onions into very small pieces.Fry them in Oil.
Wait until they turn light brown/golden yellow,Cut tomato into small pieces
Add tomato pieces to fried onions,close the lid.Let tomato get soft.
Now extract tamarind juice from the soaked tamarind,Add tamarind water to it.Let it simmer for few minutes.Add salt,pinch of turmeric powder to the boiling liquid with low flame.
Now add our vadalu to it and let them become soft and absorb the yummy pulusu / tangy sauce

Switch off the stove once vadalu are soft.

Rich taste with Rice and roti !!!!!!!!!

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