Ani’s Kids Recipe,South Indian samayal & Tips!

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Suyan is a very simple sweet vada /bajji made using wheat. My grandma use to make different types of vada,Pakoda’s etc.This is one among them. This is my hubbys and now my daughters favourite too. No complicated ingredients. Mixture will be ready in minute . This is simplest sweet I have ever seen in my life. I am not includind semi home made items .  This can be taken  as Evening snack.

Suyan

Ingredients

1. Wheat flour – 1 cup
2. Sugar – as needed
3. Pinch of soda salt(sodium bicarbonate)
4. Oil for frying
5. if big banana then 1/4 banana

Preparation

1. Take wheat flour in bowl to it soda salt, mashed banana,and then sugar.
2. Add water (batte consistency should be like idli batter) and mix well. Just taste and add sugar accordingly.
3. Heat the oil in Kadai and Using spoon take the batter and pour on oil. It will puff . Deep fry  and then take out.

Just to share with you………..

Paruppu Vadai /Aama vadai is basically a dish of Tamilnadu origin which is usually made during family feasts and is served as a starter. Most of the lunch menu for special occasions will include this Paruppu vada and Payasam.It is a fast and easy mouthwatering appetizer which can be made in minutes. Advantage of this recipe is that you need not search for much of ingredients in your pantry and fridge. the outer layer of Masala vada is very crispy . It can be eaten as  teas time  snack.

Paruppu vadai

Ingredients

1. Channa dal  – 1 cup
2. Ani seeds/Sombu - 1 tsp
3. ginger - very little
4. green chillis -4
5. Onion -1
6. salt
7. curry leaves
8. Corriander leaves
9. oil for frying

Preparation

1. Soak channa dal in water for 2 hours.Drain and keep aside a fistful of drained channa dal (optional) and grind the rest of the channa dal with sombu/ani seeds coarsely.
2. To this coarse mixture, add chopped onions, curry leaves, coriander leaves,chopped green chillies,finely chopped ginger and salt and mix well.
3. Add the remaining channa dal (optional)and mix well. Make small lemon-sized balls and pat it lightly on your palm  and slide into hot oil and deep fry until golden brown.

Tips

To Make Keerai Vadai/Greens vada

• You can add chooped spinach along with corase grinded dal. Or you can add Drumstick greens (Murunga keerai) -It will taste good.

To Make Valapoo vadai

•  you can add cleaned and  finely chopped banana flower. There is a spl method to cook Valpoo vada that we will see later.

Mixture of Dals
You Instead of channa dal/Kadalaparuppu you can mke Channa dal 1/2 and toor dal 1/2 cup.