Vada Pav
It’s the Weekend! Why not make Vada Pav today? I make this all the time! It’s so delicious!
Vada Pav – A popular Indian street food it hails from the state of Maharashtra, India. This snack is mainly prepared with pav bread and deep-fried batata vada stuffing. It is served as an evening snack but can be eaten at any time of the day! It is dressed with a flavorsome green cilantro chutney and sprinkled with dry garlic chutney. Vada Pav has the best companion and tastes excellent with fried green chilies. It is a quick grab-and-go snack that’s cheap, filling, delicious, and fun food everyone loves.
Ingredients
- For batata vada stuffing
- 2 tablespoons of sunflower oil
- 1 teaspoon mustard seeds
- 3 garlic cloves grated
- 1 tablespoon grated ginger
- 2 grated green chilies
- 1/4 tablespoon turmeric powder
- 2 cups potatoes, boiled, peeled, and mashed
- salt to taste
- 1 tablespoon cilantro leaves, chopped
- For batata vada batter
- 2 cups besan
- 1 tablespoon rice flour
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp turmeric powder
- water as needed
- sunflower oil for deep frying
- pinch of ENO
- Dry garlic chutney
- 1/4 cup desiccated coconut
- 4 tablespoons peanuts
- 5 dry Kashmiri red chilies
- 2 tablespoons sesame seeds
- 10 garlic cloves
- salt to taste
- 1 tablespoon of Kashmiri red chili powder
What do you crave? What does your mind want? The answer is Vada Pav! Here is the best recipe of the day to make famous Indian street food – Vada Pav:
Note: To enhance flavor, you can coat garlic dry chutney on the batata vada stuffing.