Instant and healthy version of dahi vada made with bread – Easy, fat free and No cook Recipe
Dahi vada is a popular snack or street food of Northern India. It is a deep fried snack made with white lentil or urad daal .You need to plan it ahead as its made with soaked and ground urad daal paste.then deep fried and soaked again. I have already posted the recipe – How to make Dahi bhalla
But this bread dahi vada is an instant recipe.you don’t need to plane ahead to make this as no soaking ,grinding and deep frying is needed. Just add some beaten chilled yougurt over fresh bread roundels and garnish with green and date chutney and your fat free and easy dahi vadas are ready in minutes.
Prep time-10 min
Cuisine-Indian
Difficulty level-easy
Spice level – medium
Type – snack
Yield – 5
INGREDIENTS-
- Bread slice -10
- Yogurt /dahi – 1 cup
- Sugar /chini – 1tsp
- Green chutney – 3 tbsp
- Sweet chutney/saunth – 3 tbsp
- Cashew nuts / kaju- 5
- Raisins / kishmish- 1 tbsp
- Ginger/adrak – 1 inch piece
- fresh coriander /hara dhaniya – 2 tbsp
- Chili powder /lal mirch – 3/4 tsp
- Roasted cumin powder /bhuna jeera – 3/4 tsp
- Black salt /kala namak – 1/2 tsp
PROCEDURE-
- Wash and soak cashew and raisins /kishmish in 1/2 cup water and keep aside
- Take chilled yogurt in a bowl and whisk well.
- Add 1/4 cup water, salt and sugar in the curd and mix.
- Now chop cashews and ginger into small pieces.
- Now with a sharp bowl, lid or any mould cut bread into roundels.(circles).
- Lightly toast the bread slices on hot griddle (this step is optional)
- Take a bread roundel and dip it in in the curd and arrange in the serving dish
- Now sprinkle some chopped cashews,raisins,ginger and chopped coriander over it.
- Now cover it with other plain bread slice.
- Drizzle yogurt over it to cover from all sides.
- Now drizzle sweet chutney, green chutney, chili powder,black salt and cumin powder.
- Serve immediately.
Note-
- Add water according to the quality and thickness of the curd ,it should neither be very thin nor very thick,should be of pouring consistency so bread can soak it properly.
- If you don’t have sweet chutney or green chutney even then you can make these dahi vadas ,they taste great both way
- Just make them when you are about to serve as they may become very soft to handle if kept for some time.
Dahi vada is teasty. Ithere is no cooking so dish will be ready within a few minits I like very much
very tempting and lovely snack..
healthy and filling treat
Yumm..drooling at these awesome dahi bade..love the quick and simple recipe
Lovely and mouthwatering looking dahi vadas. Excellent preparation.
Deepa
Super tempting snack