Dahi vada is a popular snack or street food of Northern India.it is 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 - 3 tbsp
- Cashew nuts / kaju- 5
- Raisins / kishmish- 1 tbsp
- Ginger - 1 inch piece
- fresh coriander - 2 tbsp
- Chili powder /lal mirch - 3/4 tsp
- Roasted cumin powder /bhuna jeera - 3/4 tsp
- Black salt /kala namak - 1/2 tsp
- Fresh coriander/dhaniya ,chopped- 1.5 tbsp
- Wash and soak cashew and rasins in 1/2 cup water and keep aside.
- Now with a sharp bowl, lid or any mold cut bread into roundels.
- Take chilled yogurt in a bowl and add 1/4 cup water, salt and sugar and whisk well.
- Now chop cashews and ginger into small pieces.
- Spread some yogurt in the serving bowl and then put one bread slice over the curd.
- Press it slightly then pour curd all over the bread(or dip the bread slice in the curd)
- 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.
- 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.