Tea Kadai Masal Vadai

Am running from today onwards with an another super interesting theme for this week's blogging marathon,do you want to know about the theme?? its 'Tea Kadai Menu', Tea kadai or tea stall have their important place in India and you can find them in every corner of the streets in most of the cities and villages. Its a place where peoples from village or city enjoy their cup of tea with snacks and have their routine discussions about cinema news, gossips,politics likewise. Seriously tea kadais are the ancestors of today's coffee shops.

Whenever we go to our grandma's village which is near to Tindivanam, our relative from my grandma's village who owns his tea stall in a main road between Tindivanam and Villupuram, never forget to serve his famous tea during our stay in the village bus stop as the bus service to our grandma's place are limited. The smell of fried masal vadais from his tea kadai,oh my god i cant forget it even today . When i picked this theme i know i'll be making tea kadai style masal vadai coz this theme makes me nostalgic. The masal vadai am posting today is completely a village style masal vadai where most of the ingredients are grinded together and fried as vadais with chopped onions and curry leaves. Check out the Blogging Marathon page for the other Blogging Marathoners doing BM#30.

2cups Channadal
2nos Dry red chillies
2nos Green chillies
1tsp Ginger
4nos Garlic cloves
1tsp Fennel seeds
2nos Onions (finely chopped)
Few curry leaves
Oil for deep frying
Coriander leaves (chopped & optional)

Soak the channadal for 3hours. Drain the water and keep aside.

Take the soaked channadal,ginger,garlic cloves,dry red chillies,green chillies,fennel seeds with salt in a mixie jar and grind as bit coarse paste.

Now add the chopped onions and curry leaves, mix everything well and make medium sized balls from it.

Heat the oil for deep frying, take a ball,flatten them in medium sized patties.

Drop them to the hot oil, fry on both side until they turns crispy and golden brown.

Drain the excess of oil with a paper towel.

Serve with a cup of tea or coffee.