Recipe- Mumbai Street Style Vada Pav

Vada pav is one of the most popular foods in Mumbai, probably most selling street food in Mumbai. Everybody likes vada pav as it is tasty, simple and less costly food. You can have Mumbai street style vada pav for seven or eight bucks and easily available everywhere in Mumbai. Most important thing is that its sale is so high that means street food vendors can easily sell their fried vada on the same day. So foodies know that they will get fresh food. That is why they will not hesitate to buy vada pav from street food vendors.

Ingredients

For Vada Stuffing

Potato / aloo - 3 medium size
Carrot - 1 medium size (avoid if want to make traditional vada)
Garlic - 4-5 cloves (paste / finely chopped)
Asafoetida / hing - 1 pinch
Coriander leaves - 7-8
Kadi patta - 15-16 leaves
Green chilli/ hara mirch - 3-4
Turmeric powder / haldi - 1 tsp
Cumin powder / jeera - 1.5 tsp
Salt - as needed

For Batter Making

Gram flour/besan - ⅔ cup
Turmeric powder / haldi - 1 tsp
Red chili powder / lal mirch - ½ tsp
Salt - as needed
Water - as needed
Oil - as needed

Method

- Boil potatoes and peel skin of all potatoes and mash with a masher and keep aside for further use

- Now heat oil in a pan and add garlic, kadi patta, green chillies, turmeric powder, cumin powder, hing / asafoetida, coriander leaves, salt and saute for 2-3 minutes

- Now add grated carrot and fry for 3-4 minutes and add mashed potatoes and mix with all other ingredients

- When you have done with mixing mashed potatoes with spices and can smell the nice mouthwatering flavor of spices and garlic, switch off the flame

- Now make small balls with that stuffing item

- Now mix all ingredients for batter and make not so thick or watery batter

- Dip potato stuffing ball in batter and deep fry in oil

- Now heat butter in a pan and cut pav horizontally and put on that pan for 30 seconds

- Take one vada inside pav and add chutneys and serve hot.