What is vadagam in english?

Vadagam is a Tamil word. Vadagam is the seasoning balls in our region (Thiruttani, Tamilnadu, India). Translation of Vadagam in English. Vadagam are dried balls composed of lentils and spices. Thalippu Vengaya Vadagam, sun-dried black seasoning balls are used. Thalippu Vadagam Recipe in Tamil/Vengaya Vadagam Recipe/Vadagam Recipe /How to.

Thalippu Vadagam Recipe | Thalippu Vengaya Vadagam | Kari Vadagam | Keerai Vadagam recipe with step-by-step pictures and instructions. Thalippu vadagam is a sun-dried condiment prepared using small onions and other spices. Many South Indian dishes use keerai vadagam for tempering. Thalippu is the Tamil word for tempering. It is called by different names like onions vadagam, Kari vadagam, keerai vadagam.

I usually get this from my aunt or get it from shops. Finally, I got the recipe from two of my aunt and tried this summer. It takes more time and effort but the end product is completely worth the time spent. Main time-consuming work in peeling small onions. Every summer this is prepared in a big batch and stored for more than a year. You can use this for tempering keerai, vatha kuzhambu, and different kuzhambu, or kootu recipes. The flavor and smell of the vadagam will be so good. Do try it out sometime

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Peel the skin of small onions

Wash and dry it completely in a cloth.

Gather all the ingredients required and keep it ready

Take them in batches in a mixer.

Pulse it 2-3 times and grind it coarsely.

Similarly, do for the rest of the onions and take in wide Kadai or bowl.

Take garlic with skin in the same mixer

Pulse it coarsely and add to the onion mixture.

Similarly, take other tempering ingredients one by one and pulse them.

Add everything to the onion mixture. Then add salt, hing, turmeric powder, and curry leaves to it.

Mix everything with your hands till it is combined.

Cover and leave it overnight or 8 hours

In the morning mix it once again

Make small balls out of the mixture.

Repeat the same for the rest of the mixture

Keep it in sun for one day.

In the evening crumble the balls

Add 50 ml castor oil to it and mix.

Grease your hands with oil

Make small round balls of the mixture.

Dry the balls in sun the next day.

In the evening grease, your hands with oil and tightly press the balls to hold them.

From next day keep the balls in sun for 2-3 weeks till it is tight, firm and completely dried.

After drying for 10 days

Flavorful vengaya vadagam is ready. Use them for tempering keerai, kuzhambu, and kootu.

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Vadam is a mixture of onions, urad dal, chillies, and variety of spices. This is dried under sun and used as tempering in chutney or any kulambu. Onion vadagam or thalippu vadam is a must have ingredient in south indian cooking.

Ingredients:

Onion- 1 and 1/2 kg

Garlic- 1/4 kg

Urad dall- 1/4 kg + 50 gm

Mustard seeds- 1/4 kg

Gram dall- 1 tbsp

Cumin seeds- 1 tbsp

Fenugreek seeds- 2 tsp

Salt- 1/4 kg

Turmeric powder- 2 tsp

Castor oil- as needed

50 gm of urad dall and fenugreek seeds are soaked for an hour first and ground to a coarse paste.This gives the binding to the balls.Â

The onion and garlic are peeled and coarsely crushed. This is typically done using a ullakai and ural. (I browsed a lot for these images but could not find it, so find here my scribble to illustrate it).

Then the mustard seeds, urad dall,gram dall, cumin seeds are added to it. Then the ground paste, turmeric powder and salt are added and mixed well. This is allowed to stand for two days. On the third day, they are made into balls with castor oil as the grease. The oil also acts as preservative. Â

These balls are sundried for 10  subsequent days and  stored in an  air tight container.

In a country like US when it is all the time snow and rain and little sunshine, we might  try to make these in smaller quantity and in loose form and dry it for longer time in the oven. When I try and win in the attempt, I will update my success here.

Seasoning with vadagams and curry leaves