Mumbai Vada Pav

Hey you guys!! One more addition to Street Food Menu. I love vada pav. I love anything made with potatoes actually. This vada pav tastes so yummy it will take you to the streets of Mumbai. The flavours have come out so authentic. The key to this recipe is less ingredients,less spices.When I took a bite of what I made i immediately could relate to what I used to eat in Pune and Mumbai.The masala is the heart of this recipe so don’t skip it. You can store this masala for a month or more in refrigerator. Go ahead and give this a try.

Ingredients :
For potato dumplings
2 cups boiled and mashed potatoes (i like to grate the potatoes first and then mash)
Oil for tempering
1 tbsp ginger paste
1 tbsp Garlic paste
1 tbsp green chilly paste
Salt as per taste
1 tsp Turmeric powder
Handful curry leaves
1/2 tsp Asafoetida
1 tsp mustard seeds(MUST)
Few coriander leaves Finely chopped
1/2 tsp lemon juice
1/2 tsp sugar
Garlic and Green chutney is my regular homemade (Ask me for the recipes😜)

For the vada pav masala
2 tbsp coriander seeds
1 tbsp sesame seeds(Optional)
4 tbsp raw peanuts
Fresh grated Coconut
Fried besan
8 Garlic cloves
2 tbsp kashmiri red chilly powder

For the batter
1 cup gram flour
Water required to make liquid consistency
Salt
1 tsp garlic paste
1/2 tsp AsafoetidaNow comes the procedure

➡️Potato dumplings

1. Heat a pan add in oil mustard seeds curry leaves, Asafoetida and give a good stir. As soon as seeds start spluttering add in salt turmeric powder and all the three pastes as mentioned.2. After stirring for few seconds take the pan off the heat add in potatoes and mix well. Check for the colour of potatoes. They would be nice lemon colour. Adding too much turmeric turns it dark yellow which I don’t like.3. Now put the pan back on heat saute for some more time and add coriander leaves and mix well. Add in lemon juice and sugar. This is entirely Optional. If the potatoes are sweet skip adding sugar. Please check the taste and adjust spices accordingly.

➡️Vada pav masala

1. Heat a pan add garlic cloves peanuts and roast well.
It will take quite some time. From the beginning do it at low flame.2. Once you see peanuts start changing colour add in coriander seeds and roast it well.3. Next add in sesame seeds coconut fried besan red chilly powder stir for another one minute and switch off the flame.4. Let it cool down and grind into a fine powder.
➡️Batter
1. Making the batter is little tricky if your new to making gram flour batter. Always mix little water to gram flour n mix. Dont add the entire water at one go. It will be difficult for you to get a lump free batter. Keep the batter little thin.

➡️Frying the vadas


Heat a kadai or vessel and add good amount of oil so that your vadas are completely submerged in it. Heat it well. Once the oil starts to boil switch off the flame and let it come to medium heat. Add your vadas and switch on the flame to medium. Take it out when golden brown.

➡️Assembling




Take a pav slit it in between leaving the side closed else it will become burger. Apply butter, green chutney and garlic chutney on parallel sides. Place hot vada on it. Sprinkle the powder we made earlier 👆. Place fried green chillies and close. Tadaaa.
Vada pav is ready.

Hope you like this.
Do let me know.
Happy cooking!!
Happy eating!!