Vada Pav
Mumbai’s popular street food, Vada Pav, spicy potato filling sandwiched between pav and layers of spicy garlic and green chutney
Ingredients
For vada
- 200 gm potato boil and mash
- 1 small piece ginger crushed
- 3-4 curry leaves
- 1 tbsp mustard seed
- 2 cloves garlic crushed
- 500-800 gm oil as required for deep fry potato bolls
- 200 gm gram flour
- 3 tbsp salt to taste
- 1 tbsp turmeric powder
- 6-7 green chilli crushed
- 1 tbps hing
- ½ cup chopped fresh coriander
- 1 pinch of baking soda
Instructions
- Boil potatoes until become soft, peel them, and mesh them all. Heat oil in pan add mustard seed let it to pop now add curry leaves, hing fry for 30 sec, now add crushed 3( ginger, garlic and green chili) mix well then add ½ tbsp turmeric and meshed potatoes, mix all cook for 2 minutes lastly add chopped fresh coriander.
- let the mixture cool at room temperature make samll balls like lamon.now in bowl add gram flour ,½ turmetic powder,salt and pinch of baking soda mix them all for 2 mints its become soft and flopy .
- Heat oil in wok or deep pan on medium-high heat wait to see smoke coming from oil, then press and deep potato balls one by one in gram flour batter to coat well then drops it carefully in hot oil,make sure it should turn brown color from all side.
- take it out from oil and keep on paper towal to sock excess oil than deep fry whole green chilli after make small cut on it.
- you can serve vada with pav and green chilli.
Notes
Better taste:
If you crush 3G (Green chili, Ginger and Garlic) by hand in crusher of stone and wood it will enhance taste.