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Corn vada with detailed step by step photos. Corn vada is deep fried best tea time snack. In this corn vada recipe I used chana dal as binding agent along with mint/pudina, coriander leaves, onion, and ginger. These Corn vada recipe is easily adaptable to variations, you can also use besan/ kadalai maavu as binding agent. You can use sweet corn or the Indian variety also, today I used frozen sweet corn. Corn vada is perfect with evening tea or coffee.
- Soak the channa dal for 2 -3 hours
- Now wash the corn, if using frozen corn take it out 20 minutes before wash and rinse well
- Now add 1 cup corn to mixer jar along with channa dal and grind it to coarse( if using fresh corn add 1 to 2 tbsp water)
- Take large mixing bowl add the coarse channa dal and corn
- Add onion, curry leaves, coriander leaves, mint, green chilli, grated ginger saunf/fennel and jeera and mix well
- Now add Rice flour and salt and mix well (if the mixture is very moist or you can add 1 tbsp besan)
- Further add the remaining ¼ cup corn and mix it together
- Take a small ball size and pat in your palm or you can pat it using banana leave
- Make 4-5 vada and line them in plate or greased foil paper
- Drop the vada in hot oil and fry them on both the sides  in medium flame
- Fry them till they are golden brown
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Prep Time 2 hrs
Cook Time 15 mins
Course Snack
Cuisine Indian

Ingredients
  

  • 1 and 1/4 cup Corn
  • 1/2 cup Channa dal
  • Coriander leaves (few)
  • Curry leaves (few)
  • Mint/pudina leaves (few) optional
  • 2 nos Green chilli
  • 1 tsp Ginger (grated)
  • 1 tsp Saunf/fennel/sombu
  • 1/2 tsp Jeera/cumin
  • 2-3 tbsp Rice flour
  • Salt (as per taste)
  • Oil (for frying)
  • Water (as required)

Instructions
 

  • Soak the channa dal for 2 -3 hours
  • Now wash the corn, if using frozen corn take it out 20 minutes before wash and rinse well
  • Now add 1 cup corn to mixer jar along with channa dal and grind it to coarse( if using fresh corn add 1 to 2 tbsp water)
  • Take large mixing bowl add the coarse channa dal and corn
  • Add onion, curry leaves, coriander leaves, mint, green chilli, grated ginger saunf/fennel and jeera and mix well
  • Now add Rice flour and salt and mix well (if the mixture is very moist or you can add 1 tbsp besan)
  • Further add the remaining ¼ cup corn and mix it together
  • Take a small ball size and pat in your palm or you can pat it using banana leave
  • Make 4-5 vada and line them in plate or greased foil paper
  • Drop the vada in hot oil and fry them on both the sides  in medium flame
  • Fry them till they are golden brown

Notes

Do not make paste out of channa dal and corn it should be coarse
I added 1 cup corn for blending and kept ¼ cup corn for mixing with dough but you can blend them all
if the mixture is moist and soggy(litle watery) add 2 -3 tbsp of besan/gram flour and mix well
You can skip pudina/mint leaves if you don’t like it
 
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