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Photo of Drumstick Vadai with whole drumstick pods alongside for reference

Drumstick Vadai

Veg

Chana dal and roasted gram ground with cooked drumstick pulp, garlic, and onion, shaped and deep-fried like masal vadai.

Prep time
25 min
Cook time
15 min
Total time
40 min
Servings
4
Difficulty
Medium
CategoriesVadai Recipes

Ingredients

  • 1 cup Chana dal
  • 1 cup Roasted gram (pottukadalai)
  • 5 Drumsticks
  • 2 Big onion
  • 3 (அ) 4 Small onions (shallots)
  • 10 (அ) 12 Green chili
  • 2 cloves Garlic
  • 1/2 Teaspoon Fennel seeds
  • as needed Salt
  • Oil (as needed, for frying)

Instructions

  1. Soak the chana dal in water for 2 hours.
  2. Cook the drumsticks and scrape out the pulp inside.
  3. Add the roasted gram to the soaked dal and grind.
  4. Once it's half-ground, add the crushed garlic, small onions, green chili, drumstick pulp, and salt, and grind coarsely.
  5. Finally add the fennel and chopped big onion and mix.
  6. Flatten like a masal vadai and deep-fry in oil. Serve hot.
  7. Alternative method -- Banana Flower Vadai: remove the yellow stamens from the center of the banana flower, add a little salt, and steam the flower in a pressure cooker. In the vadai method given above, substitute this banana flower for the drumsticks, grind it in, and fry the vadai.