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Vada pav, alternatively spelt vada pao, wada pav, or wada pao, pronunciation (help · info) is a vegetarian fast food dish native to the state of Maharashtra. The dish consists of a deep fried potato dumpling placed inside a bread bun (pav) sliced almost in half through the middle. It is generally accompanied with one or more chutneys and a green chilli pepper. vada pav recipe
Vada Pav is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Vada Pav is something that I have loved my entire life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have vada pav using 18 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Vada Pav:
Make ready 350 grams Potatoes
Prepare 6-7 Garlic
Prepare 2 Green Chillies
Make ready 1/2 teaspoon Mustard seeds
Take 1/8 teaspoon Turmeric powder
Get 7-8 Curry leaves
Make ready 1 tablespoon Chopped coriander leaves (cilantro leaves)
Prepare as per taste salt
Get For batter-
Take 1.25 cups Gram flour (besan)
Prepare 1 pinch asafoetida (hing)
Prepare 1/8 teaspoon Turmeric powder
Take 1 pinch baking soda, optional
Take 1/2 cup water
Prepare As per taste Salt
Make ready Other ingredients for vada pav-
Take 2 tablespoons Dry red chutney, optional 8 pav or bread rolls
Make ready 3-4 Fried green chilies mixed with some salt (optional)
It's almost synonyms with the city, in fact I remember when I was in Mumbai few years back, it was one of my goals to eat vada pav! This popular street food is loved by one and all. So what exactly is a Vada Pav? Vada = deep fried potato patties and pav = burger buns.
Instructions to make Vada Pav:
Preparing batata vada for vada pav, - Boil 2 large potatoes, about 350 grams till they are completely cooked. Peel and then mash them with a fork in a bowl. - Heat 2 to 3 tsp oil in a small pan. Add 1/2 tsp mustard seeds and crackle them. Then add 7 to 8 curry leaves and asafoetida. Stir and saute for about 5 seconds.
Then add 6 to 7 garlic and 1 to 2 green chilies, which have been crushed in a mortar pestle. add 1/8 tsp turmeric powder. stir till the raw aroma of garlic goes away. pour this tempering in the mashed potatoes, add 1 to 2 tbsp chopped coriander leaves. also add salt.
Mix everything well and then make small to medium balls from the mashed potato mixture. flatten these balls a bit. cover and keep aside. In another bowl, make a smooth batter from 1 to 1.25 cups besan/gram flour, 1/8 tsp turmeric powder, a pinch of asafoetida, a pinch of baking soda (optional), salt and 1/2 cup water.
The batter should not be too thick or thin. if the batter becomes thin, add 1 or 2 tbsp of gram flour. if the batter becomes thick, then add 1 or 2 tbsp water. keep aside,frying batata vadI in a kadhai or pan, heat oil for deep frying.
Dip the slightly flattened potato balls in the batter and coat it evenly with the batter. - gently drop these batter coated potato balls in medium hot oil. - depending on the size of the kadai or pan, you can add more or less of the vadas while frying. - deep fry these batata vadas till golden evenly. - drain them on kitchen paper towels. make all batata vadas this way and keep aside.
When they are still hot or warm, you need to serve them. take all the chutneys and pav on your work surface and assemble the vada pav, Slice the pav without breaking it into two parts and keep aside. If you don't have sweet chutney, then just make the vada pav with green chutney.
Spread both the green chutney and sweet chutney on the sliced pav. You can also spread green chutney on one side and sweet chutney on the other side. Sprinkle the dry garlic chutney. this is optional and if you don't have you can skip it.
Place the hot batata vada sandwiched in the bread slices. - Serve vada pav immediately or else the pav becomes soggy. You can also serve some fried green chillies and both the chutney along with it.
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