WEEK END SPECIAL : A famous Street Food of India

BATATA VADA PAV

Vada pav, sometimes spelled wada pav or Vada Paav, is a popular spicy vegetarian fast food dish native to the Indian state of Maharashtra. It consists of a batata vada sandwiched between 2 slices of a pav.

The compound word batata vada refers in Marathi to a vada (fritter) made out of batata, the latter referring to a potato. Pav refers to unsweetened bread or bun. Or you can replace with burger bun.

It is a hugely popular street food in India. Vada Pavs are common to find in every part of India and is sold by roadside vendoors and some shops.  Batata vada is synonymous with the south Indian Potato Bonda. Vada Pav / Wada Pav is the Indianized burger. Crispy vada sandwiched between soft buns with spicy garlic/ mint/ coriander chutney. (Wikipedia)

We can see the procedure to make this INDIAN VEGETABLE BURGER.

Ingredients :

For Vada (Bonda)
Potato	¼ Kg.
Onion – Chopped	50 Grams
Green Chili	5 Nos.
Ginger	1” Cube
Curry Leaves	1 Spring
Coriander Leaves	Little
Mustard Seeds	1 Tea Spoon
Salt	To taste
Oil	2 Table Spoon
For Batter
Chick Peas Flour	100 Grams
Rice Flour	5 Table Spoon
Turmeric Powder	½ Tea Spoon
Soda Bicarb	½ Tea Spoon
Asafetida Powder	A Pinch
For Frying
Oil	1 Cup
For  Tamarind Chutney
Dates	100 Grams
Tamarind	20 Grams
Jaggery	50 Grams
Water	½ Liter
Cumin Powder	1 Tea spoon
Chili Powder	2 Tea spoon
Coriander Powder	2 Tea spoon
Butter	2 Tea spoon
Salt	To taste
To make Sandwich
Pav/Bread	6 Nos.

Method :

For making Vada :

·         Boil the potato, remove the skin and mash with hands

or with potato masher.

·         Finely chop the onion, green chili, ginger, curry leaves

and coriander leaves.

·         Combine all ingredients together with salt.

·         In a pan, heat oil, splutter mustard seeds and add the

potato mixture.  Mix well.

·         Make lemon sized balls from this mix.  Keep aside.

For making Batter :

·         Combine, chick peas flour, rice flour, asafetida powder

and turmeric powder.  Add sufficient water to make a

                   medium-thick batter.

                    Frying :

·         Heat oil in a wok.  Take the potato mixture balls and dip

it in the batter and deep fry.

                   

                   For making Tamarind Chutney :

·         Soak the dates, tamarind and jaggery in water for 2 hours.

·         Grind in the mixer to make a fine paste.

·         In a wok, boil this mixture.  When it becomes thick, add

the remaining ingredients.

                    Assembling or making Burger

·         Vertically, make a slit in the pav. Don’t cut and separate it.

Just slit till the base (In place of pav, we can use burger

buns also).  

·         Apply the chutney (or Tomato Ketchup/Sauce – here we used

tomato ketchup) inside the pav. Keep a vada and serve

along with green chili.