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Moong Dal Ras Vada Recipe

Moong Dal Ras Vada Recipe

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Moong Dal Ras Vada is a traditional Indian sweet featuring soft lentil dumplings soaked in fragrant, flavored sugar syrup.
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Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Course indian sweets
Cuisine Indian
Servings 5

Ingredients
  

1 cup = 250 ml

FOR MAKING VADAS

  • 1 cup yellow moong dal
  • 100 grams khoya or paneer (optional)
  • Pinch of saffron food colour
  • 1/4 tsp baking soda
  • Oil for frying

FOR MAKING SUGAR SYRUP

  • 2 cup sugar
  • 2 cup water
  • 3 green cardamoms

Instructions
 

  • Wash and soak yellow moong dal for 2 hours.
  • In the meantime, prepare the sugar syrup. For that put water, sugar and cardamoms in a pan.
  • Put it on high heat.
  • Once sugar melts, boil just for 4 minutes.
  • Remove the pan from the heat.
  • For making vadas, drain the water and add soaked dal in a grinder jar.
  • Grind to a smooth paste.
  • Take the paste out in a bowl.
  • Add khoya or paneer in the same grinder jar.
  • Grind till smooth.
  • Add to the dal paste.
  • Now add baking soda and food colour.
  • Whisk together so well for atleast 5 minutes.
  • Wet your finger tips and pick some batter.
  • Drop it into hot oil. Do not overcrowd the pan.
  • Fry till golden brown.
  • Take them out and put into the sugar syrup.
  • Rest for 2 hours.
  • Moong dal ras vada is ready. Enjoy.

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Notes

You may soak the dal overnight as well.
We don't require any particular consistency of sugar syrup. Just a slightly sluggish syrup.
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