Keerai Vadai:(Spinach Vadai)

Ingredients:

Chopped spinach leaves 1 bowl full
Chana dal soaked for 40 mins 1-2 cup
Curry leaves 3-4 twigs (chopped)
Salt
Onions very finely chopped 1-2 cups
Green chilies finely chopped 1 cup
Ginger 2" size peeled
Garlic 5-6 cloves
Fennel seeds 1+1 spoon
Chopped mint leaves 1 cup
Chopped coriander leaves 1 cup
Onion 1 large fienly chopped
Rice flour 2-4 spoons
Oil for frying.

Method:

1. Wet grind coarsely the soaked chana dal. Grind 1 spoon of fennel seeds with ginger and garlic to paste. Mix with the chana batter.

2.Mix curry leaves, spinach, mint, fennel seeds, and coriander leaves too. Make a thick dough. The dough should be tight. At the same time not hard too.

3. One can add few spoons of rice powder to it....to get the crispy outer layer.

4. Further add onions, green chilies, salt and soda. Mix well and leave it in fridge for about an hour.

5. In a deep pan heat oil. Make roundels of the dough prepared. Fry them in oil. Maintain the stove on medium flame. The roundels should neither be too flat nor too bulbly. It is pressed with wet hands....each time. Fry till reddish brown.

6. Serve them hot as tea/coffee time snack. It tastes good with coconut chutney or sambar too.