How to make Vada pav at home?

vada pav Or wada pav Is the common man’s food in Mumbai and is a popular street food snack across whole maharashtra. You will find shops selling vada pav all over Mumbai and even outside schools and colleges. It easy to make and serve.

So to make vada pav you need four things:

• Pav – dinner rolls

• Batata vada – fried potato stuffed fritter.

• Green chutney

• Sweet tamarind chutney or saunth chutney

• Dry garlic chutney
  

How To Make Vada Pav

1. boil 2 large potatoes, about 350 grams. Peel and then mash them with a fork in a bowl.

2. heat 2 to 3 tsp oil in a small pan. Add ½ tsp mustard seeds and crackle them. Then add 7 to 8 curry leaves and asafoetida. Stir and saute for about 5 seconds.

3. then add 6 to 7 garlic and 1 to 2 green chilies, which have been crushed in a mortar-pestle. Add ⅛ tsp turmeric powder.stir till the raw aroma of garlic goes away.

4. pour this tempering in the mashed potatoes.

5. add 1 to 2 tbsp chopped coriander leaves. Also add salt.

6. Mix everything well. Then make small to medium balls from the mashed potato mixture. Flatten these balls a bit. Cover and keep aside. Show in below video.

Making Batata Vada For Vada Pav

1. in another bowl, make a smooth batter from 1 to 1.25 cups besan/gram flour, ⅛ tsp turmeric powder, a pinch of asafoetida, a pinch of baking soda (optional), salt and ½ 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.

2. dip the slightly flattened potato balls in the batter and coat it evenly with the batter.

3. 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 vada while frying. Deep fry these batata vadas till golden.

4. Drain them on kitchen paper towels. Make all vada this way and keep aside.
   

Assembling Vada Pav

1. when they are still hot or warm, you need to serve them. Take all the chutneys and pav on your work surface. 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.

2. 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.

3. place the hot batata vada sandwiched in the bread slices.

4. Serve vada pav immediately or else the pav becomes soggy. You can also serve some green chillies, both the chutneys along with it.

Pro tip :- You can add cheese slice in it to give it cheese flavour, like we did.