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moong dhal bhajiya | moong dhal fritters
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moong dal bhajiya | moong dal fritters

Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
soaking time 1 hour
Total Time 1 hour 25 minutes
Servings: 20 fritters
Course: Appetizer
Cuisine: North Indian

Ingredients
  

  • 1 cup Moong dhal
  • ½ cup potato (boiled, mashed)
  • 1 onion (finely chopped)
  • 1 tbsp ginger (grated/ finely chopped)
  • 4 green chilly (grated/ finely chopped)
  • ¼ coriander leaves (finely chopped)
  • 1 tsp garam masala powder
  • ¼ tsp asafoetida
  • salt to taste
  • oil for deep frying

Method
 

  1. Firstly soak the moong dal for 1 hour
  2. Secondly, after 1 hour, drain off the water from the dal, rinse in water one more time.
    make sure you drained the water completely from moon dal
  3. Thirdly, Put the drained moong dal inside the blender jar
  4. Blend it into coarse paste, without adding water
    (For blending, give a pulse, mix with spoon, do it repeatedly to blend the moong dhal)
  5. Transfer the ground paste into a mixing bowl, add in finely chopped onion, grated ginger, grated green chilly, finely chopped coriander leaves, 1 tsp garam masala, ¼ tsp asafoetida, required salt. Give it a nice mix
  6. Heat the oil, once it heated, keep the flame medium
  7. Take a small portion from the moong dal bhajiya mixture. make a patty, drop it gently into the oil.
    (first check the oil perfectly heated by putting small vada ball, if it comes up immediately, oil is at the stage of deep-frying, you can start frying)
  8. Fry it to a golden brown, then take off from the oil, place it on the tissue finally, now the fritters are ready