Vada Pav

Vada Pav

Vada Pav is a popular vegetarian fast food.It is served with a chutney which is made out of coconut, garlic and red chillies. It was initially a cheap meal for the poor but due to its great taste, it has become so popular that many hotels also started dishing it out.

According to me this dish is for the garlic and potato lovers. Its full of garlic and when i was making this, i felt that we are such a great eater of garlic when i put double of the garlic of how much i should put. Lolz!!! So, go ahead and try this out.

The recipe is given below:

Serves : 5

Ingredients:

Boiled and mashed Potatoes - 10
Oil - 2 tablespoons
a pinch of Hing
Yellow powder - 2 tsp
garlic paste - 3 tsp
green chilli paste- 2-3 tsp
Salt according to taste
chopped Coriander leaves
Lemon

For Besan Paste:

Besan - 1 bowl
Yellow powder - 1tsp
Red Chilli & Green Chilli- 1 tsp each
Cumin Seeds - 1/2 tsp
salt according to taste
Soda bi-carb - 1/2 tsp

For Frying:

15-20 Green Chillies

For Chutney:

Coconut: 300 gms
Garlic 3 full ( as we like more garlic)/ 10-15 cloves also enough
10-12 red chillies


Method:

1. Heat Oil in Kadai. Add Hing, yellow powder, garlic and chilli paste and fry for 2 minutes. Add mashed potatoes and salt & fry again.
2. Add Coriander leaves and lemon. Mix.
3. Remove from fire and let it to cool down. Then make the balls and keep aside.

Besan Paste:

4. Mix Besan, Haldi, Chilli, cumin seeds, salt, soda bi-carb together and make thick paste by adding
little water.

Frying the Vada:

5. Dip balls in besan paste & deep fry on high flame.
6. Slit green chilli from the middle and deep fry them in the same oil.

How to Serve: 

7. Take the pav.Slit it from the middle and Put butter and chutney on it. Put Vada & serve with fried green chillies.

Chutney:

Roast Coconut, Garlic and whole red chillies on tawa. Add Salt and grind together without water. If you need to add something for grinding, add little curd.