Keerai Masal Vadai/Amaranth Leaves, Channadal Vadai

Keerai vadai, the word itself makes my mouth watery, i just love hot masal vadas with hot tea while the weather is down. My kids are almost like me, we are foodie and we just love anything deep fried, though i try to keep myself away from it. My kids asks often crispy vadas or bajjis for their evening snacks especially while its raining or chilled. My today's recipe goes for Amaranth leaves aka siru keerai, this greens are rich in vitamins and they are very healthy obviously you can dish out many different dishes from this incredible greens.

This amaranth greens works awesome in crispy vadas, finely chopped keerais added to the usual channadal vada mixture makes this super crispy and dangerously addictive masal vadas. A prefect finger foods, since it had greens in it, you can feed greens easily to kids eventhough they are deep fried. If you dont get amaranth leaves, just replace it with spinach. Even spinach greens works prefect in deep fried snacks. Am sending this crispy vadas to this week's blogging marathon as i picked Kid's delight-Finger food/Party food.Check out the Blogging Marathon page for the other Blogging Marathoners doing BM#60.Sending to Kid's delight - Party food hosted by Priya, event by Srivalli.

2cups Channadal (soaked for 2hours)
1cup Chopped Amaranth leaves
1no Onion (chopped)
2nos Green chillies (chopped)
1tsp Ginger (chopped)
2nos Garlic cloves (crushed)
1tsp Fennel seeds (crushed)
5nos Curry leaves
 Few Coriander leaves (chopped)
Salt
Oil for deepfrying

Drain the excess of the water from the channadal and  grind the dal coarsely without adding water, if its too hard to grind just springle few drops of water.

Now add the chopped onions, chopped green chillies, ginger pieces, crushed garlic,chopped curry leaves, coriander leaves, crushed fennel seeds with enough salt to the grounded batter.

Finally add the chopped amaranth leaves and mix everything well.

Heat the oil for deepfrying.

Make small balls from the vada batter and flatten them.

Drop gently the flattened vadas to the hot oil and fry until they turns golden brown.

Serve warm.