Recipe: At Home Dahi Vada/Perugu Garelu/Thayir vada/Curd Vada

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Recipe: At Home Dahi Vada/Perugu Garelu/Thayir vada/Curd Vada Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Dahi Vada/Perugu Garelu/Thayir vada/Curd Vada. Dahi vada is a popular snack in India and also a favourite foe festivals. Also known as Perugu Garelu or Perugu Vada in Telugu, Dahi Bhalla in Punjabi, Thayir Vadai in Tamil, Thayir vada in Malayalam, Mosaru Vade in Kannada, Dahi Bara in Odia and Doi Bora in Bengali, is a snack prepared by soaking Medu Vadas in thick spiced yoghurt. Great recipe for Dahi Vada/Perugu Garelu/Thayir vada/Curd Vada.

It is most popular snack in our house and made with urad dal dumpling/vada in thick curd.

It's also known as Perugu garellu in Telugu and Thayir vada in Tamil and prepared on the very same type of soaking the black gram lentil vadas in well beaten curd plus a seasoning of mustard seeds, black gram dal, curry leaves, dry red chilies, asafetida (hing) is spread over it.

Dahi vada is also known as Perugu garelu, Curd vada, Perugu vada which is most popular Indian recipe.

You can cook Dahi Vada/Perugu Garelu/Thayir vada/Curd Vada using 14 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Dahi Vada/Perugu Garelu/Thayir vada/Curd Vada

  1. You need of Urad dal /Split or whole black gram 1 cup.

  2. You need of Thick curd.

  3. Prepare of jeera/cumin seeds.

  4. Prepare of red chilli.

  5. It’s of hing /Asafoetida.

  6. You need of mustard seeds.

  7. It’s of curry leaves 5.

  8. Prepare of coriander leaves for garnish.

  9. You need of salt.

  10. You need of oil for deep fry.

  11. You need of little sugar(optional).

  12. It’s of tumeric.

  13. It’s of jeera powder.

  14. You need of red chilli powder.

In a step by step procedure after soaking urad dal.

Enjoy yummy Perugu Garelu or Curd Vada as a snack or breakfast treat.

Deep fried vadas dipped in fresh curd tempered with spices is just so chilling!

Thayir Vadai is a popular Indian dish.

Dahi Vada/Perugu Garelu/Thayir vada/Curd Vada instructions

  1. Soak urad dal for one hour.Remove the water and grind it in mixer or wet grinder to make smooth paste by adding very little water. Add little salt also to make it paste..

  2. Take curd in a bowl and whisk it nicely and add salt.Heat oil and add mustard seeds, jeera, red chilli, hing and curry leaves and splutter it and pour it in the whisked curd..

  3. Take the batter in bowl and mix well for 2 mins..

  4. Heat oil in a deep frying pan. Take the batter with wet hand and make small hole in between and drop it carefully in hot oil.Some people use spoon to drop the batter in the oil. Making hole in between the vada allows it cook nicely inside also.Fry it till golden on both sides..

  5. Take some hot water in a bowl.Place the vada in hot water and press it nicely to drain water and put in the curd.Continue this process with remaining batter..

  6. Allow vadas to soak for 2 hour and then serve it by putting jeera powder and red chilli powder and coriander leaves..

It is prepared by soaking vadas in thick dahi (yogurt).

Dahi Vada are also popularly known as Perugu Garelu.

This is a famous festival dish in South India.

I am a big big fan of Tamil nadu style thayir vadai.

I love this South Indian style dahi vada more than sambar vadai & rasa vadai.