Homemade Vada Pav
A popular Indian street style fast food, where deep-fried potato cutlets are stuffed into chutney smeared spicy buns.
Ingredients
- 4 small buns
- 4 tablespoon garlic chili sauce
- Oil for deep frying
For vada:
- 2 cups boiled and mashed potatoes
- 1 teaspoon each ginger garlic & green chili paste
- 1 teaspoon urad dal optional
- 1 teaspoon mustard seeds
- 5 curry leaves chopped
- ¼ teaspoon turmeric powder
- 1 tablespoon oil
- Salt to taste
For Batter: (Mix together in a bowl)
- 2 cups gram flour
- 1 teaspoon rice flour
- Salt to taste
- ¼ teaspoon chili powder
- ¼ teaspoon roasted jeera powder
- Enough water to make a smooth batter
For mint chutney: (grind together)
- 1 teaspoon grated garlic
- 1 teaspoon grated ginger
- 2 green chilies
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice
- 1 cup mint leaves
- 1 cup green coriander
- 1 slice of bread soaked in water
- ½ teaspoon salt
Instructions
To make vada
- In a bowl add mashed potatoes, garlic, ginger, green chili paste and salt mix well and keep aside.
- Heat oil in a pan add urad daal, mustard seeds curry leaves and turmeric, when tempered well add this to the mashed potatoes and mix well.
- Make small lemon size balls dip into the batter and deep fry till light golden.
- Remove on a kitchen towel for excess oil to drain.
For the vada pav
- Take each bun and make a slit horizontally.
- Apply chili sauce on one side and mint chutney on other side and keep the fried vada in middle and serve hot.
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