Ash Gourd Wada / Buddida gummadi Wadalu ~ No Onion / Garlic

Ash Gourd / Winter melon / Budida Gummadikaya is well known for its low calorie, high fiber and water contents which greatly help in digestion and body weight.

This vegetable has rich benefits and can be consumed daily.

Wadas are everyone's favorite and you must try this healthy version of Ash gourd / Budida gummadi wadas.

Ingredients :

- Tender Ashgourd - 4 inches thick piece, appx 300 gms

- Urad dal - 2 cups

- Green Chillies - 7-8

- Ginger - 2 inch

- Salt - as required

- Rice flour - 1-2 tbsps (if needed only)

- Oil - for deep fry

- Jeera - 2 tsps

- Hing / Asafoetida - 2 pinches

Recipe :

1. Clean and soak the urad dal for atleast 4 hrs.

2. 1 hour before you blend the urad dal, clean the ashgourd , scrape the skin and grate finely. Add salt to the grated ashgourd and keep aside.

3. Now for wadas the urad dal batter should be hard, so dont add too much water while blending it.

4.Blend the green chillies and ginger pieces into paste.

5. After the urad dal batter is ready, squeeze out the water from the ash gourd and add this grated ash gourd to the batter and mix well.

* If your ash gourd is tender then you will not see a lot of water when squeezed.

6. To the ashgourd ural dal batter, add jeera, ginger - green chillies paste, salt as required and hing. Mix everything well.

7. Now using a plastic cover shape the wadas like you do the medhu wadas and fry till golden brown in hot oil.

8. If it is getting hard to form the shape due to the batter consistency, you can add some rice flour and mix well.

*If it is very watery then wadas will absorb lot of oil so add rice flour to avoid this.

9. Take the wadas into a tissue paper / paper to remove the excess oil.

10. Serve these hot wadas with chutney of your choice.

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