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VADA PAV – Mumbai Street Food
Course condiments
Cuisine maharashtrian
Prep Time
10 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Servings
number
Ingredients
  • 6 Pav (ready made/ home made)
For Batata Vada / Aloo Vada:
Course condiments
Cuisine maharashtrian
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Servings
number
Ingredients
  • 6 Pav (ready made/ home made)
For Batata Vada / Aloo Vada:
Instructions
  1. 1. Boil the potatoes in a pressure cooker. Peel, mash and keep aside.
  2. 2. Chop onions, green chillies and garlic
  3. Take 2 tsp oil in a pan n heat.
  4. Add mustard seeds and as it splutters add chopped garlic and saute it.
  5. Now add chopped onions and green chilies and fry all well.
  6. Adjust salt to as per taste
  7. Keep aside the potato masala to cool down in room temperature.
  8. Take a large bowl and add besan and baking soda into it.
  9. Now start adding water to make a batter. The batter should b neither too thick nor too thin. The consistency of the batter should be flowing but not running.
  10. Adjust salt in the batter as per your taste.
  11. In a deep thick bottomed vessel or a vok, heat oil for deep frying.
  12. Meanwhile the potato masala must have cooled and now its time to make some balls.
  13. Make equal portions of the potato masala and with ur plam make balls of equal size.
  14. Now as the oil is heated nicely, take one potato masala ball and dip it into the besan batter n deep fry it in medium to high flame. Keep regulating the heat of the oil because if it’s too hot then the vadas may get burn and if it’s not properly heated then the vadas may absorb oil.
  15. Fry the vadas till they are golden in color and take them out in a blotting/ tissue paper to absorb oil.
  16. Following the same method fry rest of the vadas too in batches.
  17. Now take a fresh pav ans slit it from between leaving the edges.
  18. Place a vada inside the pav , sprinkle some vadapav masala (easily available in stores) and place a red chilli in between.
  19. Press the pav and serve hot with your favorite spicy chutney.
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