Tuesday, February 06, 2007

Vada Pav / Batata Vada


Ingredients:

1 Kg boiled Potatoes
2 cups Gram Flour (Besan)
Pav (A kind of bun known as Pav. Usually the outer surface is little rough, looks like a burger bun but smaller than that. Check for the proper one in your groceries. Do not buy sweet pav as it will spoil the taste.)
Ginger & Garlic paste
4-5 Green Chilies
Jeera seeds
1/2 cup Coriander leaves (chopped)
1 tea spoon Turmeric Powder
Curry Leaves
1 teaspoon Mustard seeds &
Oil for frying
Salt as per the taste


Method :

1. In a frying pan, add 2 tbsp oil, to it add ginger & garlic paste, jeera, green chilies, turmeric powder, mustard seeds, and curry leaves and stir for a while.

2. Peal the boiled potatoes and smash them, then add them to the frying pan.

3. Mix it for a while and then add salt to taste.

4. Put this potato mixture aside for it to cool down. Meanwhile, add some salt, chilie powder & turmeric powder to the gram flour. Mix it together and add some water to make a thick batter. Remove any lumps.

5. Make small balls of the potato mixture (You can make flat balls by pressing them in palms).

6. Heat some oil (about 16oz) in a pan (take a deep pan for frying). Wait till the oil is hot then, dip the potato balls in the gram flour (besan) batter and deep fry them till golden brown.

6. Slit the Pav keeping the base intact & spread Green Chutney on the inner sides of it. Place the vada into it. And enjoy Vada Pav! If no pav is available, then you can have the vada as it is with chutney
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