Dahi Vada Aloo dum – It’s not just food, it’s a tradition.

If you go to Mumbai, you’ll be enthralled enough to try pav bhaji. If you go to Chennai, it has to be dosa or idli with scintillating chutneys to fill your stomach. If you go to Punjab, then how can you forget aloo paratha and lassi or makki di roti (corn chappatis) and sarson da saag (mustard leaf-based food). So when you come to Odisha, you have to be introduced to Dahi Vada aloo dum. Be it breakfast, lunch or dinner or even sweet dish, Dahi Vada is ever ready to be served. I’m an odia and I know the importance of Dahi Vada in my life.

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During my childhood I used to see my mother battering the urad lentils, making vadas of circular shape with a hole in the centre and soaking them in curd overnight for the guests who were to come in the morning. At night I wondered how will the Dahi vadas taste with my night full of dreams about how I am going to grab over all the Dahi vadas from the guests. During the morning our house would be filled with the aroma of sweet and spicy Dahi vadas with red chillies and pepper topped with onions ready to be served with hot and yummy aloo dum served with bhujia sev. Hence every household knows the reminiscence of this dish.Every odia kid is accustomed to this age old food that is cheap and tasty, what even do you need more? Life would have been incomplete without Dahi Vada aloo dum. The smell of the dish just fills our nostrils with engaging aroma and our ears secretly listening to our inner voices echoing to have a plateful of Dahi Vada aloo dum.

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Now Dahi Vada is available at every nook of the street, becoming a complete favourite street food for Odias. Somewhere between our mothers preparing vadas overnight to being sold in huge pots and served in small tholas (plates made of paper), Dahi Vada has been and still continues to stay an age old tradition.




For complete recipe,
http://odiafoodia.blogspot.in/2018/01/dahi-vada-aloo-dum-make-street-food-at.html