PALAK VADA

Palak vada or spinach vada or keerai vada is made with the urid dal batter and the palak nicely chopped and added to it.  If you want, can add bits of coconut, chopped green chillies, curry leaves etc.  You will need medu vada batter for this.

You can serve it with chutney, sambar, rasam  and sauce too.  Normally palak and curd goes well hence you can serve it as dahi vada too with sweet and green chutney.  Add some chopped onions, becomes masala vada.

Any kind of vada you serve hot with chutney, sambar, rasam etc. is welcomed in our house.  Another method of making it is that you can mix the spinach with dal vada  (parippu vada) mix.

Palak vada

Let us look at the recipe now:

Ingredients:

2 cups of vada batter
1/2 cup tightly packed chopped spinach leaves ( i used around 25 leaves)
2 green chilly chopped
1 tsp coconut bits (i used less because my children do not like it)

Oil for frying.

Method:

After griding the vada batter, keep it in fridge for 30 minutes to 1 hr.  wash and chop the spinach leaves very finely.  add this into the vada  batter along with chopped green chilly and coconut bits.  Heat oil in kadai.  dip your hand in water, take out a small ball size batter, roll it in your palm and make a hole in the middle and slide in the hot oil.  deep fry, serve hot with sambar, rasam, chutney and sauce.

You can also make them into dahi vada as the spinach goes well with dahi.

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