Instant Bread Medu Vada

Prep Time: 10 mins

Cook Time: 10 mins

Serves: 5

Ingredients

1.       6 bread slices

2.       ¾ cup curd/yogurt

3.       ¼ cup suji / Bombay Rava / semolina

4.       ½ cup rice flour

5.       ½ onion finely chopped

6.       small piece ginger finely chopped

7.       2 tbsp coriander leaves chopped

8.      4 - 5 curry leaves

9.       2 medium finely chopped green chilies

10.   ½ tsp cumin

11.    salt to taste

12.    oil for deep frying

Instructions

1. In a large mixing bowl take 6 bread slices and crumble them into small pieces.
2. To the crumbled bread, add rice flour, Rava, curd, onion, ginger, coriander leaves, curry leaves, cumin seeds and salt.
3. Mix all the ingredients and form soft dough. If you feel the dough is dry, you can add 1 to 2 tsp of curd to make it smooth paste.
4. Divide the dough to large lemon sized balls.
5. Take 1 ball, roll out to smooth finish and gently make a whole at the centre to get a donut shape.
6. Heat oil in a pan or kadai, deep fry 3-4 vada at a time depending on the size of the kadai. Fry on both sides till it becomes golden brown on medium flame. Drain on paper towel.
7. Serve hot vada with chutney or sambar.

Notes:

1. To make it fluffier, add a pinch of baking soda.
2. if the dough is sticky, grease your palm with oil and make round vadas
3. if the batter becomes watery, then the instant relief would be to add some semolina and rice flour
4. If you do not like spiciness then you can skip chilies.
5. Alternatively you can add veggies of your choice to make it healthier. Like coconut pieces, grated carrot, mint etc.
6. You can also replace green chili with pepper.