Crispy Pepper Vadai

 Ingredients

1 cup - Urad dal 

Black pepper - 1/2 to 3/4 tsp crushed

Asafoetida - 1/4 tsp

Rice flour - 1 to 2 tsp

Salt as per taste 

Oil to fry

Soak the urad dal for 1/2 hour (do not over soak the dal). Drain it and coarsely grind it with salt without adding water.  Add crushed black pepper, rice flour and asafoetida to the batter.  

Heat oil. When it is hot add 1 teaspoon of hot oil to the batter and mix it.

Make a small ball out of 1 tbsp of batter,  keep it in between a ziplock cover well greased with oil and then press it with a cup.  By this way you will get same size of vadai. 

Heat oil in a kadai and in little less than medium fire fry the vadai till it turns in golden brown color.  Remove from the kadai and store it in an air tight container.