khati Mithi Mix Dal Dahi vade

Last evening I was watching TV when Kids came running and asked what am I cooking for tomorrow. “Tomorrow is Holi na?”. All are making special dishes, what is yours? Fuzzy eaters of mine are asking me for special dishes for Holi. That is enough for me to stop watching TV head towards kitchen. Then question came what to cook. Kids gave me a simple clue that, “prepare something yummy”. Asked hubby about it. Got the same old answer “whatever” you are comfortable with. I said, I didn’t know how to cook whatever. As usual I didn’t get any help from him. So I thought of making something usual preparation with my twist. At last I got two dishes. Khatti Mithi Mix Dal Dahi Vade and Orange Tiramisu…

Khati Mithi Mix Dal Dahi Vade…

Urad dal- 1 & ½ cup

Moong dal- ½ cup

Rice flour- 3tbsp

Soda- 1/4tsp

Salt- to taste

Zeera- 1tsp

Ginger- 1inch long

Green chillies- 1

Dahi- 700ml

Sugar- 3tbsp

Dry roasted Cumin powder- 2tbsp

Zeera- 1tsp

Mustard- 1tsp

Whole red chilli- 3 to 4

Curry leaves- 2 strings

Oil to temper and deep frying

Tamarind- a big lemon size ball

Black salt to taste

Wash urad dal and moong dal separately but soak together in a bowl with enough water for 3 to 4 hours. Then make a paste of soaked urad dal, moong dal and green chilies. This paste should be dry but smooth.  To the paste add rice flour, zeera, baking soda and grated ginger and mix properly and keep aside.

In a microwave safe bowl take tamarind and 2 cups of water and keep in the microwave for 2mins in high.  Let it cool down for some time. Then add water and make tamarind pulp and strain it. Add salt, black salt and sugar and mix properly. Keep aside.

Whisk dahi properly, add salt, black salt, sugar and dry roasted zeera powder and mix.  Then add some water but dahi should be thick. Heat a tadka pan, add oil (1tbsp), whole zeera, mustard, and curry leaves and red chilies. Sauté properly and mix it to the dahi and keep aside.

Heat oil (enough for deep frying) in a pan. Make small vadas and deep fry it. You can fry 3 to 4 at a time. When it is golden in colour bring out from oil and drop in tamarind water to soak. Similarly make all the vadas and put them in the tamarind water for 10 mins. Then squeeze out the vadas from the tamarind water and put them in the dahi. Let them soak for half an hour. Ur khatti mithi dahi vade is ready. Serve chilled…