recipe of peanut dahi vada

Prep time: 10 minutes

Cook time: 20 minutes

Total time: 30 minutes

Soaking time: 4 - 5 hrs.

peanut dahi vada

Peanut dahi vada / Dahi vada / dahi bhalla / doi bora looks delicious, yummy and full of mouth watering dish. It's my 1st try to do it at my home and it’s become very tasty with nice flavor and taste of peanuts when we take bites of peanut dahi vada. An awesome flavor full dish made by me especially for yesterday’s dinner at my home. When I represented peanut dahi vada dish in front of my family members, they all became happy and said, "wow!!!!!!!! Awesome!!!!!!” When we take bites of peanut dahi vada, we never believe an amazing taste of it with flavors of peanuts. 

Actually, my mom love peanuts. So, she really likes peanut dahi vada too much. When I fried peanut vada, so it gives such a nice aroma of peanuts at my kitchen. When vada fried completely and I just add into water for 5 - 6 minutes. At that time, I noticed it’s become so soft and I like it so much because of its softness and I eagerly waited to taste it. I just felt unhappy because lack of coriander leaves and pomegranate seeds at my home. If i had it, so my dish become so colorful and yummy with nice taste of its. 

moong & urad dal

Here, I used moong / mung dal with salted peanuts. You can use black gram / chana dal instead of moong dal. You can also use unsalted peanuts instead of salted peanuts. As per your choice, you can make combination of peanut dahi vada. Dahi vada is most popular and favorite dish. Majority of us, serve dahi vada as a starter form or as a chaat form. 

Generally, dahi vada made on "Kali Chaudash" before Diwali festival at my home. In India, majority people made dahi vada on "Kali Chaudash". It’s one kind of Indian tradition to celebrate festivals. You can serve peanut dahi vada with green chutney as well as sweet chutney. Even you can also serve hot vada just sprinkle with chat masala on it. Yes, you can serve hot crispy vada as teatime snack. 

You can also use mint leaves for garnish it. You can also serve dahi vada as a side dish at dinner time in front of your family members. 

It’s my guarantee, when you serve peanut dahi vada to your family members, they fully impress with this tasty, yummy, delicious and mouth watering dish of peanut dahi vada. Enjoy with your lovely chaat dish peanut dahi vada with your friends and family members. 

Ingredients: 

1. 1/2 cup Salted peanuts 

2. 1 cup moong dal / mung dal 

3. 3 teaspoon urad dal 

4. Salt (taste wise) 

5. 2 tbsp Green pest (green chilies, ginger) 

6. 1/2 teaspoon black pepper powder 

7. 1/4 teaspoon asafoetida powder / hing 

8. 1 - 2 lemon 

9. Oil (for deep fry) 

10. 1 cup curd 

11. 1 tbsp sugar powder 

12. 1 teaspoon red chili powder 

13. 1 teaspoon coriander powder 

14. 1 tbsp green chutney 

15. 1 tbsp chopped coriander leaves 

16. 1 tbsp sev 

17. 1 tbsp pomegranate seeds 

18. 1 glass of Water 

Recipe: 

1. Take a bowl, add moong dal, urad dal and water in it. Now, wash it and drain excess water from it. 

2. Again add water and soak moong dal and urad dal in it for 4 - 5 hours. 

Wash & soak into water

3. Now, Take a mixer bowl, add peanuts and little water in it and make a smooth and thick pest of it. 

Make peanut pest

4. Now, Transfer peanut pest to a bowl. 

peanut pest ready

5. Now, add chopped green chilies and ginger in a mixer bowl and make a smooth pest of it. 

Make green pest

6. After 4 - 5 hours, add moong dal and urad dal with 1 teaspoon green pest in a mixer bowl and also add salt taste wise in it and make a smooth & thick pest of it. 

Add moong & urad dal

7. Now, transfer it to a peanut pest bowl, also add green pest in it. mix it properly. 

Mix all pest

Add lemon juice

8. Add lemon juice, black pepper powder, asafoetida powder (hing) in it and again mix it properly. (Note: If better become so smooth add gram flour in it because thick better is needed to make vada.) 

Add black pepper powder

add asafoetida powder

9. Heat oil in a thick pan for deep fry vada from the better. 

10. Now, take small portion of better and add it to heated oil and fry vada on low flame till it become light golden color from both sides. 

Fry vada

11. Now, transfer it to a paper nepkin. 

12. Take another bowl, add 1 glass of water in it and add fried vada in it. Soak it into water for 5 - 7 minutes. (You can put round shape of vada.)

soak vada into water

13. Now, remove excess water from the vada by pressing vada using your hands and put it into a plate. (Note: Here, use your both palm)

Remove water from vada

14. Now, take a bowl of curd, add sugar powder and salt in it and mix it properly. 

Add Salt

Add sugar powder

15. Apply curd on vada and also sprinkle red chili powder and coriander powder in it and apply small dots of green chutney on each vada. 

Sprinkle red chili, coriander powder

16. Now, Garnish it with sev, coriander leaves and pomegranate seeds. 

Add sev

Tips:
1. You can also sprinkle chat masala on it at garnish time.
2. You can also use sweet chutney in it. 

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recipe of beetroot cheese shakarpara

Prep time: 10 minutes
Cook time: 15 minutes
Total time: 25 minutes

Beetroot cheese shakarpara

Beetroot cheese shakarpara / beetroot shakarpara is very healthy and yummy tea time snacks. Here, cheese is completely optional. If you don't want to add cheese in beetroot cheese shakarpara then just avoid it. Now - a days, people too much conscious about their health as well as their diet schedule.

I really like cheese because cheese contains great source of protein and calcium. It also helps you to reduce your body weight and for that you have to choose lower fat cheese. Cheese also contains nutrition like zinc it helps to protect your skin and growth of nails and hair health. If you choose full fat cheese then it contains full calories and also increase cholesterol level in your body and also it damages to your memory. In the market, many kinds of cheese are available. So, i always want to give an advice that you have to check all labels of cheese carefully without any hesitations and always prefer to purchase cheese that is low in sodium and low fat because cheese contains lots of sodium so it directly put bad effects on your blood pressure.

My friend is 33 years old and she is very tall but too much thin. So, she just want to take such kind of medicines for improve her body growth. Because of unfit body, she can't marry and always rejected by only this reason. She was completely frustrated because of her unfit body. One day, she tried to share her problem with me and told me I want to take visit of specialist doctor. We both were gone to hospital. After so many discussion, doctor conclude that I advice you to eat full fat cheese, butter, boiled gram, etc when you are too much hungry and no need to take any kind of medicines. Now, she is completely feet and very happy in her life.

I am just sharing one real story of my friend's life but it's not mean that cheese become beneficial for all humans. I just want to give an advice that no needs to eat cheese too much in a day. If you don't live without cheese so always remember to carefully read its all labels.

I really like to eat cheese that's why i used it in my beetroot cheese shakarpara but it’s totally optional. You can use or avoid it as per your choice. You can also make beetroot shakarpara. It's also give nice taste to your snacks.

Here, I was used juice of beetroot for made dough of shakarpara because I don't want to eat beetroot bites. So, i always prefer to make juice of it’s and make innovative and healthy recipes for my family members.

Even kids also love the taste of beetroot cheese shakarpara. This is one good source to eat beetroot by kids.

Ingredients:

1. 2 cup maida (plain flour)

2. 1 cup beetroot juice

3. 1 cup grated cheese

4. 2 tbsp ghee

5. Salt (as per taste)

6. Oil (for fry)

7. 2 teaspoon red chili powder (Optional)

Recipe:

1. Take a bowl, add maida, salt and red chili powder in it and mix it properly.

Add salt & red chili

2. Add 2 tbsp ghee in it and again mash it and mix it properly.

Add ghee

3. Now, add grated cheese in it and mix it properly.

Add cheese

4. Take a juice of beetroot, add little little beetroot juice in maida, mix it and make a semi - hard dough.

Add beetroot juice

5. Now, divide the dough into 6 - 7 large equal portions.

divide dough equally

6. Now, take one by one portion of dough and roll out it till it become semi thin. 

Roll out a portion 

7. Now, cut it with the help of cutter or knife and try to give diamond shape to it.

Cut it into diamond shape

8. Now, heat oil in a thick pan for fry shakarpara.

9. Add shakarpara in heated oil and fry it on medium flame till it become light pink.

fry beetroot cheese shakarpara

10. Transfer it to a paper napkin and put it asides for 30 minutes.

11. Your beetroot cheese shakarpara is ready to serve. You can also store it in an air tight container for long time.

ready to serve

Tip: Sprinkle chat masala over fried beetroot cheese shakarpara. It gives delicious taste to beetroot cheese shakarpara.

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