moong dal bhajiya | moong dal fritters
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
Instructions
- Firstly soak the moong dal for 1 hour
- 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
- Thirdly, Put the drained moong dal inside the blender jar
- Blend it into coarse paste, without adding water(For blending, give a pulse, mix with spoon, do it repeatedly to blend the moong dhal)
- 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
- Heat the oil, once it heated, keep the flame medium
- 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)
- Fry it to a golden brown, then take off from the oil, place it on the tissue finally, now the fritters are ready