Vada Pav Recipe
A quick and easy recipe to prepare lezat vada pav at home. The spicy potato vada stuffed inside pav buns along with green chutney and garlic chutney tastes divine and makes a filling snack for evening tea time or a meal. Check out the easy video recipe. Preparation time: 15 mins
Cooking time: 20 mins
No. of servings: 4 persons
Calories: 370
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Ingredients
To prepare vada
- Potato - 3
- Oil - 1 tbsp
- Mustard - 1/4 tsp
- Cumin - 1/2 tsp
- Split urad dal - 1/2 tsp
- Green chilli - 2
- Curry leaves
- Ginger garlic paste - 1 tsp
- Turmeric pwd - 1/4 tsp
- Red chilli pwd - 1/2 tsp
- Coriander leaves
- Salt to taste
- Gram flour / kadalai maavu - 1 cup
- Rice flour - 2 tbsp
- Turmeric pwd - 1/4 tsp
- Oil to deep fry
To prepare garlic pwd
- Garlic - 5
- Red chilli - 4 or 5
- Dried coconut pwd - 2 tbsp
- Roasted peanuts - 1 tbsp
- Salt - 1/2 tsp
To Arrange Vada pav
- Pav buns - 4 to 5
- Green chutney - 3 to 4 tbsp
- Green chilli to garnish
Method
To prepare vada
- Wash and cook potatoes.
- Peel off the skin and mash the potatoes.
- Set aside.
- Heat 1 tbsp of oil in frypan.
- Add mustard, cumin, split urad dal, sliced green chilli and curry leaves.
- Wait to splutter.
- Add ginger garlic paste and saute.
- Add turmeric pwd, red chilli pwd and salt.
- Add mashed potatoes and give a quick stir.
- Add freshly chopped coriander leaves and turn off flame.
- Spicy aloo masala is ready to prepare vada.
- Let the masala cool.
- Make small balls out of potato masala.
- Arrange in plate.
- In a mixing bowl, add gram flour (kadala maavu), rice flour, salt, turmeric pwd and mix well.
- Add water little by little and mix to thick smooth batter.
- Heat oil in frypan.
- Dip the potato balls in batter and drop in hot oil.
- Fry 4 to 5 batata vada at a batch.
- Deep fry in medium flame until the vadas are golden and crispy.
- Drain in kitchen tissue.
- Crispy vada pavs / batata vada are ready.
- Slit green chillies and deseed them.
- Fry the green chillies in hot oil just for few seconds and drain from oil.
- Set aside.
Lets prepare Garlic powder for stuffing
- Heat a pan.
- Add garlic and red chilli.
- Roast for a minute in low flame.
- Remove from heat.
- Add dried coconut and saute.
- Turn off flame.
- Add to blender. Add peanuts and salt.
- Grind to coarse powder as shown in video.
- Transfer to plate and set aside.
- Spicy garlic powder is ready.
Lets arrange Vada pav
- Slit pav buns as shown in video.
- Apply green chutney on both sides. Here is the recipe to prepare green chutney at home.
- Stuff spicy garlic powder.
- Stuff batata vada (step 22) and close the pav/bun.
- Garnish with fried green chilli and coriander leaves.
- Lipsmacking delicious homemade vada pav is ready.
- Enjoy hot with any dip of your choice.
