Batata Vada| Mumbai style Vada Pav

Vada Pav- the soul food of Maharashtra. Its one of the cheapest and yummiest food on streets. Every city has it own version of Vada. For those you are not aware what Vada is ,its basically potato dumplings with divine flavors dipped in chickpea flour and deep fried. These vadas are kept in between the 'pav', unsweetend buns filled with sweet n spicy dips/ chutney...While I write this my mouth is watering!!! slurp...In the country where I live today, its hard to find that perfect pav for this Vada, so I started baking this pav since couple of years.. and so proud of it! Absolutely perfect arent they ? :) 

I have updated this post with my recipe for the perfect buns or Ladi pav > Click here

Ingredients

About 5 medium size potato

Oil for Deep frying

1 tsp Amchur powder ( dry mango powder)

For Tempering

2 Tbsp Oil

1/2 tsp Turmeric

4-5 Chopped Green chilli

2 Tbsp Grated Ginger

2 Tbsp Whole Coriander seeds

1 Tsp Red Chili Powder

For Batter:

1 1/4 cup Besan ( Chickpea Flour)

Pinch of turmeric, red chilli, Salt

Water as need.

Procedure:

Boil and mash potatoes. You may pressure cook them or cook in microwave for about 5 mins. Make sure it does not absorb too much water while cooking

In a small wok, add little oil , add mustard seeds when hot.Once its splutters add rest of the ingredients as mention in tempering ( as shown below) Cook it for a while till ginger leaves a beautiful smell.

Now add this tempering to the mashed potatoes. Add salt, amchur powder. If you don't have amchur powder, you may even squeeze a lemon juice.

Add some chopped cilantro

Mix well to form nice dough kind of texture.

Wet your hands and make flat patty like these.

This makes about 12-13 Medium Size Vada.

In the mean time keep your oil on heat for deep frying in a deep vessal.

In another small bowl  Add all the ingredients for batter as shown below. 

The batter should not be very runny or should be very thick. Convenient to dip and pick up the balls from it.

Fry them on medium flame till golden brown. You may add multiple at a time. but do not overcrowd.

Serve it Hot!! with your choice of sweet or spicy chutney. Enjoy it in any weather just like we do it :)

Do try it out and like my page if your are inspired.Thanks!

PS: All recipes are without Onion and Garlic

Happy Cooking! Inspire and Get Inspired :)