Vada Pav
the famous street food of Mumbai
Ingredients
For the Vada
- 4 to 5 large Potatoes (aloo)
- 5 cloves of Garlic, chopped (lehsun)
- 1 inch Ginger, chopped (adrak)
- 3 to 4 green chillies, chopped (hari mirch)
- 1 tsp Mustard seeds (rai / sarso)
- ½ tsp asafoetida (hing)
- few Curry leaves (kadi patta)
- 1 tsp Turmeric powder (haldi)
- ½ cup fresh coriander, chopped (hara dhaniya)
- 1 tbsp oil (tel)
- salt as per taste (namak)
- 1 tbsp lemon juice (nimbu ka ras)
For the outer covering
- 1 ¼ cup gram flour (besan)
- ½ tsp turmeric powder (haldi)
- 1 tsp red chilly powder (laal mirch powder)
- ½ tsp asafoetida (hing)
- salt as per taste (namak)
Other ingredients
- few green chillies (hari mirch)
- 8 to 10 pav
- dry garlic chutney powder (lehsun chutney)
- green chutney (hari chutney)
Instructions
For the Vada
- Boil the potatoes with water in a pressure cooker for 4 to 5 whistles.
- Once it cools, peel the potatoes and mash the potatoes.
- Heat 1 tbsp oil in a pan.
- Add mustard seeds.
- When they crackle, add the asafoetida and curry leaves.
- Add chopped garlic, chopped ginger, chopped green chillies, turmeric powder and saute it for few minutes.
- To this, add the mashed potatoes and salt.
- Give it a good mix.
- Add chopped coriander and mix it well.
- Allow this to cool.
- Make medium sized round balls.Keep aside.
For the outer covering
- In a mixing bowl, combine besan, turmeric powder, chilly powder, hing, salt and mix well.
- Add water as required and make a thick batter.
- Dip each ball of vada filling into the batter and fry it in hot oil till golden brown.
- Drain on absorbent paper and keep aside.
- After frying the vadas, add green chillies into the oil.
- Fry them and keep aside.
How to proceed
- Slit each pav into half and spread some dry garlic chutney on one side and green chutney on the other side.
- You can also apply sweet chutney which is optional.
- Place one vada in each pav and serve vada pav with fried green chillies.