Vada Pav!! ( With Baked Potato Vada )

Today’s recipe post is about one of the most popular Mumbai’s street food – Vada Pav! It is scrumptious, the best tea time snack and so so tempting.  Grab vada pav and steaming hot cup of tea on a rainy or cold day and you will be in taste haven. 

Vada Pav is a very famous street food of Mumbai. It originated as cheap street food in Mumbai, but it is now offered in stalls and restaurants throughout India. 

So what is Vada Pav?

Vada  means deep-fried potato patties

Pav means burger buns.

Traditionally the vada is made of boiled and crushed batata, or potato, which is mixed with spices, herbs, chilies, ginger, and garlic, and shaped into a patty, dipped in a coating of gram flour or besan with spices and then deep-fried in very hot oil. This is inserted, piping hot, into a fresh pav, or unsweetened bun.

To make it a little healthier I have baked these Vada's in appe pan !! 

INGREDIENTS:-

 2 tsp oil

1/2 tsp mustard

Pinch of hing / asafoetida

Few curry leaves

1-inch ginger, crushed

2 clove garlic, crushed

1 chili, finely chopped

2 tbsp coriander, finely chopped

1/4 tsp turmeric 

2 potato  boiled & mashed

1/2 tsp salt

1 tbsp lemon juice

FOR BESAN BATTER:

3/4 cup besan/gram flour

1 tbsp rice flour

1/4 tsp turmeric 

1/4tsp Kashmiri red chili powder 

Pinch of hing / asafoetida

1/4 tsp salt

1/4  tsp baking soda

1/2 cup water

oil for deep frying

OTHER INGREDIENTS:

6 Pav/dinner rolls

7 green chili

6 tsp green chutney

3 tsp tamarind chutney

3 tsp dry garlic chutney

Method:

Take a ball-sized potato mixture and dip in besan batter and coat well.

 Greece the appe pan with a very little oil and drop the potato coated with besan mixture into the pan bake them for 2minutes on one side on a medium flame and then flip and bake the other side on 2 more minutes.

Now slit the ladi pav and spread green chutney, tamarind chutney, and dry garlic chutney.

place the prepared vada in the center of pav.

Finally, press the vada pav, and serve immediately.