White Cowpea Vada (Vellai karamanu vadai)

White Cowpea Vada (Vellai karamanu vadai) - Preparation time 30 to 35 mins Soak the cowpea for 3 hrs to make this vada. Sundal is good for health but occasionally you can make this vada. This will taste like vazhaipoo vadai. You try it out it will be crispy, tasty, different and healthy.

Ingredients:-
White cowpea (vellai karamani) - 1 cup (cleaned and soaked for 3 hrs)
Small onion - 10 (chopped into small squares)
Green/red chili - 2 or red chili powder - 2 tsp
Ginger - 1 inch (chopped)
Salt - to taste
Curry leaves & coriander leaves - chopped finely 2 tsp

Preparation Method:-
Remove the soaked water, wash the karamani and grind to coarse dough along with ginger, chili and salt.
Put the batter in a bowl and add onion, finely chopped leaves and mix well. You can add red chili powder to increase the spice level.

Make small ball from the batter and flatten (you can use plastic sheet or make in hand).
Heat the oil and drop the vada very slowly (if you drop fast the oil will split out so be very careful).

Take care while frying because it will be cooked very soon as the karamani dough will be soft. Cook in slow flame.

After few mins turn the vada repeat this till the vada is golden brown in color.
Remove and place this in tissue to remove excess oil. Tasty vada is ready for you.