Recipe: Appetizing Vada Pav Recipe

Vada Pav Recipe. Mumbai's very own burger, Mumbai style vada pav. The vada pav recipe is made of a spicy potato filling deep fried in a gram flour batter. Along with a hot and spicy garlic chutney, batata vada pav is served inside a small "Ladi Pav".

Vada Pav is the most popular street food of Mumbai. It is also known as the Desi Burger. Vada is a deep fried potato savory and pav (buns). You can have Vada Pav Recipe using 15 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Vada Pav Recipe

1. It's 11 of Pav.
2. You need 250 gms of (4) potatoes, boiled and mashed.
3. You need 75 gms of besan/ gram powder.
4. Prepare 1/2 tsp of mustard seeds.
5. It's 1/4 tsp of turmeric.
6. It's 1 tbsp of chilli power.
7. Prepare 1 inch of ginger, finely chopped.
8. It's 2 cloves of garlic, finely chopped.
9. You need 1/2 of coriander leaves, finely chopped.
10. Prepare 1 sprig of curry leaves, finely chopped.
11. It's 1 pinch of hing/ asafoetida.
12. You need 1/2 tsp of baking soda.
13. It's As needed of Oil.
14. You need to taste of Salt.
15. It's As needed of Water.

Vada Pav is served with two kinds of chutney, a dry red chutney powder and fried green chilies. This snack is popular with people of all age groups. Vada pav recipe with video and step by step photos - Vada pav is a popular street food from India. It originated in the streets of Mumbai as a fast food that was cheap and affordable even by a common man.

Vada Pav Recipe step by step

1. Heat a pan with oil and add mustard seeds, a pitch of hing, curry leaves, finely chopped ginger-garlic, turmeric powder and chilli powder. Then add mashed potatoes (boiled and mashed) and salt to taste..
2. Mix it well for three minutes and turn it off. Let the stuffing cool for five minutes..
3. Take a mixing bowl and add besan, 1/2 tsp turmeric powder, 1/2 tsp chilli powder, a pitch of hing, 1/2 tsp baking soda and salt to taste. Then add required amount of water..
4. Make small size aloo mixture, and dip in besan batter and coat well. Then go for deep fry in hot oil..
5. Take it out once it turned slight golden. Slit the pav and prepare vada in centre. Ready to serve..

To make vada pav, batata vada is sandwiched in Indian bun which is known as pav. These Batata vada are potato balls that are dipped in chickpea flour batter and deep fried. I grew up around Delhi and the pav bhaji or vada pav could never match up to the one in Mumbai. I realized this after I ate the real deal! Anyway coming back to Vada Pav.