VADA PAV

Vada Pav Ingredients:

Pav – 7-8
Potatoes – 3 big sized
Finely chopped Green Chillies – 2
Chilli Powder – 1-1/2 tsp
Garam Masala Powder – 1/2 tsp
Hing Drops or Asefotida – 3 drops
Besan or Bengal Gram Flour – 1 cup
Lemon Juice – 1/2 tsp
Finely chopped Coriander Leaves
Salt
Oil to deep fry
Pudina Chutney (Optional)
Sweet Tamarind Chutney (Optional)
Tampering Ingredients:
Mustard Seeds – 1/2 tsp
Curry leaves – 6-7
Oil – 1 tsp


How to Prepare:

1) Wash the Potatoes and pressure cook the Potatoes for 3-4 whistles. When the pressure eases, remove Potatoes from the cooker, peel the skin of the Potatoes. Mash or grate them (to get rid of lumps we can grate it). Keep aside.
2) Tampering Method: Heat Oil in a frying pan, add Mustard Seeds. Once the seeds splutter, add Curry Leaves. Fry them well. Keep aside.
3) Transfer the mashed or grated Potatoes (from Step 1) to a bowl. Add finely chopped Green Chillies, chopped Coriander Leaves, Garam Masala, Hing drops and Salt. Mix them well. Add Lemon Juice and Tampered mixture from Step 2 to this mixture and prepare dough.
Divide the dough into 7-8 balls and press it and prepare like patties by pressing in the middle of the balls with the help of palm.
4) Add Besan to a bowl. Add Chilli powder and little Hing and Water and prepare thick batter like Dosa batter.
Dip each patties from Step 3 into this batter and deep fry all the patties.
Now hot Vada is ready.
5) Cut the Pav in the middle. If you have Pudina Chutney and Sweet Tamarind Chutney at home, apply 1/2 tsp of Pudina chutney to one side and 1/2 tsp of Sweet Tamarind chutney to the other side of the Pav. Keep the hot Vada in the middle of the Pav. Vada Pav is now ready.

Serve hot Vada-Pav with Chutney of your liking.