Vada Pav Recipe/ Mumbai Vada Pav recipe

Vada Pav Recipe/ Mumbai Vada Pav recipe

Vada pav, alternatively spelled Vada Pao, Wada pav, or Wada Pao, is the famous street food of Maharashtra. It is very cheap and quick to bite food.

It is basically spicy fried potato dumplings filled in between the Pao/ Pav. Special spicy Vadapav chutney they used in vada pav. It is generally served with onions and fried green chili. 

Although it originated as cheap street food in Mumbai, it is now served in food stalls and restaurants across India. It is also called Bombay burger in keeping with its origins and its resemblance in physical form to a burger.

Vada Pav Recipe/ Mumbai Vada Pav recipe:

Preparation Time: 8 mins

Cooking Time: 20 mins

Servings:  13 Vadas (medium size)

Ingredients: (1 cup = 200ml)

For Vada:

• Boiled potatoes: 3 
• Paste (Ginger, garlic, green chili): 2-3 tsp
• Oil: 2-3 tbsp
• Asafoetida (Hing): 1/8 tsp
• Mustard seeds (Rai): 1/4 tsp
• Turmeric powder (Haldi): 1/2 tsp
• Red chili powder (Lal Mirch): 3/4 tsp
• Coriander powder (Dhania): 3/4 tsp
• Garam Masala: 1/4 tsp
• Chat masala: 3/4 tsp
• Salt: As per taste
• Vadapav Chutney: 3/4 tsp

For frying vada: 

• Gram flour (Besan): 1 cup
• Water: 6 tbsp
• Asafoetida (Hing): 1/8 tsp
• Turmeric powder (Haldi): 1/2 tsp
• Salt: As per taste

Other Ingredients:

• Pav: 13
• Green Chutney
• Vadapav Chutney
• Green chilies (fried)
• Chopped onions

Method:

Step 1: 
Mash the boiled potatoes by grater or hand properly, then add haldi, Lal Mirch, dhania powder, amchur, and garam masala to it. Now add salt and mix well

Step 2:
Take a kadhai, heat some oil. Add rai, when rai starts to splutter, add hing & ginger garlic and green chili paste to it and mix well. Now add mashed potato mixture to the tadka, add chat masala, and vada pav chutney to the mixture. Sprinkle some freshly chopped coriander leaves. mix well.

Step 3:
Let the mixture cool down. Make equal 13 medium size vadas of the mixture.
Now, Take a bowl, add besan, Water, Hing, salt, and haldi to it and form a paste as shown in the image.

Step 4:
Now take one Kadai, add some oil to for frying. Keep the flame on low-medium. 
Take one vada, wrap it into dry besan then wrap it into besan paste, then transfer it to kadhai for frying. Let it fry on low-medium flame till it becomes golden brown. Similarly, fry all vadas, take them out on tissue paper to discard some extra oil from our vadas.

 Step 5: 
Now we need to start assembling vada pav.
Take one Pav, Slit the pav as shown in the image, add a layer of green chutney on both sides, then a layer of VadaPav Chutney. Now keep one of our fried vadas in the pav. 

Step 6 (OPTIONAL): 
Take a pan, add some ghee/ butter to it. Roast the outer sides of our vada pav from both sides.
Serve hot.

Serve with chopped onions and fried green chilies.

Notes:

1. If you don't have Amchur powder, you can add lemon also.
2. You can adjust the spiciness of vadas as per your taste.
3. Mix vada pav chutney with chopped onions and serve them with vada-pav, it tastes awesome.
4. Always coat 1 layer in dry besan first, before coating paste, as it binds the besan paste to vada very well.
5. Vada Pav Recipe/ Mumbai Vada Pav recipe best served hot and you can pair it with Fried green chilies and mixture of chopped onions & vada pav chutney.

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