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![]() How to Cook Bread Vadai -South Indian SnackDumpling, doughnut, fritter or however you call this dish-enjoy as breakfast or snack throughout the day. You do not need vegetables to have a meat free dish |
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Step 1Grab your bread slices. Ideally day old bread. Cut them roughly as small as you can. Include the crust. |
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Step 2Add yogurt. In absence of this leave one cup milk mixed with 1 tbsp white vinegar for 20 mins to stand before adding to the bread |
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Step 3Give it a quick mix |
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Step 4Add onion, ginger, green chilli or dried red chilli, cilantro and curry leaves. |
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Step 5Add rice flour |
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Step 6Add baking soda and salt. Mix all these. The batter must be firm and sticky. I am after a batter that can hold its shape. Next I add the toasted ingredients |
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Step 7Dry roast cumin seeds |
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Step 8Peanuts are optional. Dry roast them too |
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Step 9Add to the batter |
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Step 10Give it a final mix |
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Step 11Heat vegetable oil in a wok. Now form the vadai as per video |
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Step 12Drain on absorbent paper |
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Step 13Serve it hot as it is. You may serve it with coriander chutney, coconut chutney, sambhar (vegetable & lentil stew), or yogurt. |
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Step 14Enjoy and give this a go. Traditional vadai is made with either urud dhal (black gram) or toor dhal (yellow pigeon peas). This bread vadai is a rather modern version. |