How to Royal at dinner Dal fritters

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How to Royal at dinner Dal fritters Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Dal fritters. These easy fritters use moong dal / Mung dal which are split and skinned green moong beans. Moong Dal is often used to make dishes where chickpea flour is used, such as pancakes, fritters /pakora etc. Moong Dal is often called petite yellow lentils in grocery stores like whole foods.

This recipe was from me playing around in the kitchen, but it turns out that it is a very popular food during festivals in India..

In a food processor, pulse the dal with salt and red chiles, if using, until coarse.

Deep-fry till golden-brown: Heat oil in a pan for deep-frying and add the round fritters into the oil one at a time.

You can have Dal fritters using 7 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Dal fritters

  1. Prepare 2 cup of chana dal.

  2. Prepare 1 pinch of asafoetida.

  3. It’s 1 tsp of red chilli powder.

  4. You need 1/2 tsp of turmeric powder.

  5. You need 1 tsp of chopped green chilli.

  6. You need to taste of Salt.

  7. It’s of Oil for frying.

Dal Pakoras are now ready to be served!

Piaji / Chana Dal Fritters in Odia style are some fritters using a mixture of coarse paste of soaked chana dal, sliced onions along with some more spices.

This is also purely Vegan and gluten free snack option.

Perfectly crisp, spicy and completely wholesome fritters one can have as it is or accompanied with some hot cup of tea or even with odia special ghuguni (yellow pea curry).

Dal fritters instructions

  1. Soak chana dal for 2 to 3 hours. Grind to a fine paste in a blender. Keep the paste in a bowl..

  2. Add rest of the ingredients into it..

  3. Mix it all together. Shape them into small balls and flatten them a bit..

  4. Now heat oil in a kadai and fry the balls till they turn golden brown..

  5. Strain them out any paper towels..

  6. Serve them hot..

The one thing that fills my heat with immense joy on a cold, wet, winter afternoon is a plate of deep fried goodies.

When I say fried snacks, I think about the very traditional ones that are untouched by the modern food trends.

I mean, pakora, jalebi, and these urad dal fritters or uzhunnu vada or medu vada.

Moong dal Vada is a favorite street side food in North India especially in Gujarath & Rajasthan.

This is also known as pakoras, bhajias or fritters.