About The Recipe:

Summer Special - Vengaya Vadagam | Sambar Onion Vadagam | South Indian Special Vadagam - made with the two main ingredients of sambar onion (chinna vengayam) and ulundu. This vadagam is not the seasoning vadagam. Its often serve as a side dish with sambar rice, dal rice or curd rice. Now lets see how to make this vengaya vadagam with simple ingredients, step by step instructions and video.

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Recipe : Vengaya Vadagam | Sambar Onion Vadagam | Summer Special Prep Time: 3 days Recipe Cuisine: Indian Recipe Category: Side Dish Yield: 1 and 1\2 cup

Ingredients :

Ulundu | Urad Dal - 1\2 cup

Garlic - 10 cloves

Dry Red Chilies - 3 to 4 nos

Cumin Seeds - 1 tsp

Sambar Onion - 2 cups (finely chopped)

Salt - as required

Method :

Wash and soak the ulundu for about 1 hr. Drain the water. Grind into fine paste with required salt and water into vadai batter consistency.

Grind the garlic, dry red chilies and cumin seeds into coarsely.

Mix the ulundu batter and ground masala. Then add in the sambar onion and mix well.

Make vadagam on clean and dry cloth. Sun dry them for three to four days or till them dry completely. Vadagam is ready.

To fry, heat some oil in a kadhai, fry ten to fifteen vadagams at a time, cook over simmer only until golden brown colour.

Notes: At night, keep the vadagam in the house and store the dried vadagam in a air-tight box. Fry the vadagam in small batches and cook over simmer only.

Step By Step Images:

Wash and soak the ulundu for about 1 hr. Drain the water. Grind into fine paste with required salt and water into vadai batter consistency.

Grind the garlic, dry red chilies and cumin seeds into coarsely.

Mix the ulundu batter and ground masala.

Then add in the sambar onion and mix well.

Make vadagam on clean and dry cloth. Sun dry them for three to four days or till them dry completely. Vadagam is ready.

To fry, heat some oil in a kadhai, fry ten to fifteen vadagams at a time, cook over simmer only until golden brown colour.

Serving Suggestion: Goes well with sambar and paruppu rice. Page: Collection Of Sides Dishes. If you like this recipe: You will like this thinai vadagam recipe also. Did you make this recipe? Please let me know how it turned out for you! Leave a comment below and share on Facebook

By Kalais