Vada pav is a very famous street food in Maharashtra, which is made up of potato filling vada and a special vada pav spices and chutneys.
Ingredients for VADA PAV
- Bun pav: 4
- Potato: 4 boiled and mashed
- Onion: 1 tablespoon finely chopped
- Oil: 2 tablespoon
- Ginger-garlic: 1 tablespoon grated
- Green chili: 1.5 tablespoon
- Coriander leaves: 1 tablespoon finely chopped
- Mustard seeds: 1 teaspoon
- Curry leaves: 5-7
- Turmeric powder: 1 teaspoon
- Red chili powder: 1 teaspoon
- Cumin-coriander powder: 2 teaspoon
- Salt to taste
- Lemon juice: 1 tablespoon
- Sugar: 1/2 teaspoon
- Oil/Butter: 2 tablespoon
- Dry vada pav spice powder: 2 tablespoon
Ingredients for VADA BATTER
- Gram flour: 1 cup
- Salt to taste
- Baking soda: a pinch
- Turmeric powder: 1 teaspoon
- Red chili powder: 1/2 teaspoon
- Carom seeds: 1/2 teaspoon
- Water as needed
- Oil for deep fry
How to make VADA PAV
- Firstly, prepare the vada for vada pav.
- Turn on the flame and heat the oil in a pan over medium flame, add mustard seeds.
- Once they splutter, add curry leaves, grated ginger-garlic, very finely chopped onion and saute them well for 5 minutes.
- Add mashed potatoes, turmeric powder, red chili powder, cumin-coriander powder, sugar, lemon juice and salt to taste.
- Give it a nice mix all together and cook for a minute.
- Keep the flame off and set the pan aside to cool down completely.
- Another side preparing the vada batter.
- In a bowl, sieve the gram flour, turmeric powder, red chili powder, salt to taste, and baking soda.
- Altogether, Mix it with the spoon and add carom seeds, add water as needed and make a little thick batter.
- Now, turn on the flame and heat up the oil in a deep fry pan, over medium flame.
- So, take the potato mixture and make a medium sizes balls of them.
- After that, Take one ball and deep it into a flour batter and put it into the hot oil.
- Deep fry the vada until it becomes golden brown.
- Once they deep fry well take them out on kitchen paper and same way prepare all the vada.
- Now, heat up a tava and spread the butter, cut the pav in middle but make sure that they keeping join from one end.
- Shallow fry the pav inside and put 1 teaspoon of dry vada pav spice powder and fried vada inside, spread more butter on top of the pav and take it out from the tava.
- As a result, the vada pav is ready.
- Most of all serve it with green chutney and tomato catchup.