I absolutely love this masala vada espcially when mom used to prepare this ...I miss her so much ...well So thought to experiment in my own way in the way of the burger...just loved the Indian twist in a burger.
Ingredients
For the Vada
2 cups chana dal
2 onion finely chopped
2-3 green chilli finely chopped
1/4 cup chopped coriander leaves
salt to taste
Oil to deep fry
Other ingredients
Peri peri sauce or Spicy Mayo as per taste
4 Mini burger buns cut into half
4 lettuce leaves
few onion rings
butter to pan fry the buns
Method
For the vada
- Wash and Soak chana dal for 3 hours
- Grind the chana dal coarsely without water
- Put the chana dal paste in a bowl and then add onion,green chilli,coriander leaves and salt
- Mix well and make medium size ball from the mixture and flatten each of it with ur palm
- Heat oil in a pan and then deep fry it till golden brown and crisp and then keep aside
For the burger
- Slit the burger buns into half and toast them with butter on both sides and keep aside
- Take a burger bun and apply peri peri sauce or mayo evenly on both sides,then put the lettuce,onion rings and the chana dal patties on it and close it with the other half of the bun
- Repeat the same with the other remaining bun and serve
