Baked Masala Vada - crispy, oil-free snack!

Smitha Hemadri

Natural Healing - Leader & Influencer

09:40 PM | 18-09-2020
Prep Time
5 hours
Cook Time
1 hour
Servings
4-5 servings

These baked masala vadas are healthy and oilfree. Perfect party snack and crispy for a rainy evening. It has two major steps. We steam it and then bake it. One can enjoy the steamed ones as is or bake it too. It’s called nucchina unde in Karnataka when we consume just the steamed ones. The crispy version can be enjoyed after it’s baked. 

Ingredients

Toor dal2 cups

Chopped onions

Ginger one big piece

Green chilli as per taste

Salt as per taste

Cumin 2 tbsp

Cumin powder 1 tsp

Amchoor powder 1 tsp

Chopped dill, mint, coriander leaves

Any other spicy flavour is optional

Instead of toor dal, one can use chickpea / any other legumes if one wishes to avoid the pulses.

 

Method

- Soak toor dal for 4 hrs or overnight in the fridge

- Grind toor dal in the small mixie jar without any water. Even if it’s not finely ground that’s fine. It has to be coarse

- Add chopped onions, mint, coriander and dill

- Grind chilli, cumin and ginger without any water and mix

- Add salt and mix

- Keep anidlistand/steamerready

- Make flat cookies shapes from the mix and steam for 15-20 mins till they are steamed

- The vada can be enjoyed at this stage itself. We call it ‘Nucchina unde’ in Karnataka.

or if you love them crispy and baked, proceed to the next few steps

-Preheat the oven to 200c and line the baking tray with parchment paper

- Line all the cookies and bake on the 2 rods without any fan for 30 mins. Check for browning.

- Once enough browning is achieved, remove the vada and enjoy with spicy pudina chutney.

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