Pesara Garelu or Whole Moong Dal Vada is a traditional Andhra snack made with mung beans, ginger and green chillies. Vada is a South Indian style savory fried donut that is usually made with lentils and spices. These can be served as a snack or breakfast with chutney or sambar. You can also make these as a Naivedyam during festivals such as Makar Sankranti, Ugadi and Dasara.
Course Breakfast, Festival Recipes, Snack
Cuisine Andhra cusine, Indian, south indian
Keyword crispy vada, garelu, moong dal, pesara vada
Prep Time 20 minutesminutes
Cook Time 30 minutesminutes
Total Time 50 minutesminutes
Servings 4people
Calories 301kcal
Author Sowji's Kitchen
Ingredients
1CupWhole Green moong Gram
5 -6Green chilies
1InchGingerChopped
Saltto taste
1/2tea spoonCumin seeds
Chopped coriander leaveshandfully
Chopped curry leaveshandfully
1/4CupChopped onions
OilFor deep fry
Instructions
Wash and soak the whole green moong dal in a lot of water for 6 hours or over night.
Drain the water. Grind the soaked beans, green chillies,cumin seeds, salt and ginger into a little coarse or smooth paste. Use very little water if needed.
Transfer into bowl, add chopped onions, coriander leaves and curry leaves. Mix well.
Heat oil in a pan for deep frying.
Wet your hands and take a lemon sized ball of batter and flatten it on your palm or on a plastic sheet. Make a small hole in the middle of the vada so that it cooks evenly all over.
Slowly drop it into the hot oil. Fry it on both sides on medium flame til golden brown color.
Remove them from oil .
Serve hot with any chutney.
Notes
Do not over grind the green gram as this will not give the proper shape to garelu.** It is better to grind the batter just before cooking as green gram will get fermented very easily and will not give the correct taste.*** Jeera, coriander and chopped green chillies to the batter to enhance the taste of this pesara garelu.