Vada Pav Recipe – Mumbai Snack – Pics
Vada pav (Wada Pav), is a popular snack famous in Maharashtra, India. Easy to follow recipe for making the restaurant style snack in your kitchen.
Maahi Gupta Updated 13 Jul, 22
Vada Pav Recipe – Mumbai Snack – Pics
Vada pav (Wada Pav), is a popular snack famous in Maharashtra, India. Easy to follow recipe for making the restaurant style snack in your kitchen.
Ingredients for making Spicy Coconut Garlic Chutney: Garlic Chutney Ingredients
- 2 Tsp Oil
- 1/2 Cup Water
- 1/4 Tsp White Salt
- 3/4 Cup Dry Coconut (Grated )
- 6 Number Dry Red Chili Stick
- 4 Number Garlic bud (Chopped)
Ingredients for making Gram Flour Mixture
- 1/2 Tsp Red Chili Powder
- 1/2 Tsp Turmeric Powder
- 1 Cup Gram Flour (Besan)
- 1/2 Tsp White Salt
- 2 Pinch Baking Soda (Meetha Soda, Baking Soda)
Ingredients for making Potato Mixture
- 1 Cup Oil (or enough for Frying )
- 1/2 Kg Potato (Boiled)
- 1 Number Green Chili (Chopped)
- 2 Tsp Green Coriander Leaves (Cilantro) (Cilantro – Chopped)
- 2 Tsp Lemon Juice
- 1/2 Tsp White Salt
- 1/2 Tsp Turmeric Powder
- 1/2 Tsp Red Chili Powder
- 2 Pinch Asafoetida
- 2 Buds Garlic bud (Grated)
- 2″ Inch Ginger
- 1/2 Tbsp Oil
Making Spicy Garlic Coconut Chutney
- Garlic Chutney Ingredients.
- You would also need Pav.
- Roast the grated coconut till it gets light golden brown in color in a pan. Keep aside once done.
- Heat Oil in a pan. Add Garlic cloves and roast until they turn golden brown.
Add red chilies and roast for 3 seconds. Switch off the stove.
- Add roasted Coconut, Salt, Garlic and Red Chilies to the grinder. Grind for about 3 seconds.
- After 3 seconds of grinding, open the jar and add Water. Now grind again to make a smooth paste.
- Your chutney/sauce is ready.
Making the Vada
- Ingredients for Potato mixture.
- Mash boiled potatoes with the help of your hand. Add Green Chili, Coriander leaves, Salt, Red Chili powder and Turmeric powder. Mix well with hands.
- Heat oil in a pan. Add Asafoetida, grated Ginger and grated Garlic. Keep the stove on medium flame and cook till they become light brown in color.
- Now add potato mixture and cook for 3 minutes on high flame. Mix well and stir to avoid burning of potatoes. Then switch off the stove. Keep aside to cool.
- Once your Potato mixture has cooled down, pick up small amount of potato mixture and give it a round shape with your hands. Keep aside. We will need them after we are done with our Gram Flour Besan mixture to provide a coating for these potato balls Bondas.
- Take Gram flour in a bowl. Add Salt, Asafoetida, Turmeric powder and Red chili powder. Mix well.
- Add water and make a smooth paste of Gram flour Besan.
- Now, we are done with the basic raw materials for making Aloo Bonda. Heat oil to deep fry the bonda. Keep the stove on high flame. Now, dip the prepared potato balls one by one in the Gram flour syrup/mixture to cover each corner of the ball and release them with soft hands in the hot Oil.
- Fry till they become light golden brown in color.
- Once done, take them out of Oil. Vada is ready.
Assembling Vada Pav
- Use a knife to slice individual Pav pieces. Do not slice it completely. There should a simple attachment at one end as shown in picture.
- Spread our Coconut Garlic chutney on Pav base. You can also spread it on the upper Pav piece to have more spice.
- Open the face of Pav and sandwich the Vada. Your Vada Pav is ready to go into your stomach! Enjoy this delicious snack with tea or coffee.
Serve vada Pav hot with Green chutney.