General
Vada Pav Recipe
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Ingredients
- 350 grams potatoes 2 medium to large sized potatoes
- 6 in to 7 garlic/lahsun + 1 to 2 green chillies/hari mirch crusheda mortar-pestle
- tsp ½mustard seeds/rai
- pinch aof asafoetida/hing
- tsp ⅛turmeric powder/haldi
- 7 to 8 curry leaves/kadi patta
- 1 tbsp chopped coriander leaves/dhania patta
- salt as required
for batter
- 1 cup to 1.25besan/gram flour
- pinch aof asafoetida/hing
- tsp ⅛turmeric powder/haldi
- pinch aof baking soda optional
- cup ½water or as required
- salt as required
other ingredients
- 2 tbsp dry red chutney optional
- 7 to 8 pav/bread buns
- 3 to 4 fried green chilies mixed with some salt optional
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other ingredients
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Instructions
The batata vadas
- In a pressure cooker, boil 2 large potatoes, about 350 grams till completely cooked.
- Strain and place in a bowl. Mash them with a fork.
- In a small pan, add 2 or 3 tsp of oil. Once the oil is hot add 1/2 tsp of mustard seeds.
- Once the mustard seeds splutter add 7 to 8 curry leaves and asafoetida.
- Stir and saute for around 5 seconds
- Now, add 6 to 7 garlic and 1 or 2 green chillies. The garlic and green chillies shouls be crushed. Preferably in a mortar-pestle.
- Now add 1/2 tsp turmeric powder.
- Saute until the raw smell of garlic is gone.
- Pour the tempering over the mashed poatoes. Add 1 or 2 tbsp chopped coriander leaves and salt. Mix well.
- Make small to medium balls of the mashed potato mixture. Flatten them slightly.
- Now, in another bowl, add 1 to 1.25 cups of besan or gram flour, 1/8th tsp turmeric powder, asafoetida, a pinch of baking soda, salt and 1.2 cup of water. The batter should be of medium thickness. If too thin, add 1 or 2 tbsp of gram flour, else add water to make the batter thin.
- in a kadai or pan, heat oil for deep frying.
- once the oil is heated. coat the potato balls evenly with batter and deep fry in medium hot oil. deep fry these batata vadas till golden evenly.
assembling vada pav
- slice the pav without breaking it into two parts
- spread both the green chutney and sweet chutney on the sliced pav.
- place the hot batata vada sandwiched in between the pav slices.
- Serve hot.