Ingredients

• Spinach (Amaranth varieties) – 200g
• Toor dal – 250g
• Green chillies – 3
• Cumin seeds – 1 tsp
• Fennel seeds – 1/4 tsp
• Mustard seeds – 1 tsp
• Ginger – 1
• Garlic cloves – 5 to 6
• Turmeric powder – 1/2 tsp
• Red chilli powder – 1/2
• Curry leaves – Few
• Coriander leaves – Few
• salt – Required
• oil – Required

How to Prepare

Total Preparation Time: 20-30 minutes

1. Chop the onion and green chillies, grate ginger and garlic and grind ginger and garlic well like paste, chop coriander leaves and keep them aside
2. Clean the spinach thrice and chop them finely and keep aside
3. Wash chana dal and soak it for 2 hours in water then drain water
4. Take a mixer, add fennel seeds, cumin seeds, ginger garlic paste and chana dal grind them without water
5. Then transfer them into a bowl and then add onion, red chilli powder, choped spinach, green chillies, turmeric powder, curry leaves, coriander leaves
6. Mix it well using your hand and allow them to marinante for 10 minutes
7. Take lemon sized quantity of vada mixture and flatten it in your palm like a closed pearl shell
8. Take a hard bottomed vessel, add 300 ml oil and heats up
9. Now gently put prepared vada into the oil one by one
10. Fry them it become crispy, golden brown on both sides then move these vadas into a napkin to avoid excess oil
11. Now the healthy Keerai vadai is ready for serve