Mouthwatering Maharastrian Vada Pav Recipe........

Vada Pav Recipe:

Vada Pav is one of my most favorite Maharastrian Street Food. It is made with mashed potato masala mix and served in a traditional Maharastrian Pav(A type of bread or Bun). The recipe of making Bada Pav is so simple yet it tastes so delicious. I just love bada pav with chai( Indian Milk Tea) during monsoon season.The most common theory of the Vada Pav's origin is that it was invented in the erstwhile mill-heartland of Central Mumbai, then known as "Bombay". The carbohydrate-rich snack catered to the mill workers of what then known as Girangaon. The combination of the potato dumpling (batata vada) placed inside a pav quickly became popular in Girangaon and later the rest of Mumbai.

And according to Wikipedia One of the earliest kiosks selling Vada Pav is said to be Khidki Vada Pav located in Kalyan. It was started in the late 1960s by the Vaze family, who used to hand out Vada Pav from a khidki (the Marathi word for "window") of their house facing the road. 

A first ate Vada Pav in Pune during my college days and became literally addicted to it. We had a small tapri(Street food stall) near our college and I was one of their permanent customer.😤😤😂😂😁

Anyways lets start with the recipe now........

Ingredients of Vada Pav

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   8 pieces pav

   1 1/2 cup Refined oil

   1 pinch baking soda

   1/3 cup water

   4 gm parboiled,mashed potato

   3/4 cup Gram flour (besan)

   1 pinch salt

 

   For Filling

   2 small chopped green chilli

   1 teaspoon mustard seeds

   8 leaves curry leaves

   3 cloves grated garlic

   1 pinch asafoetida

   1/2 teaspoon powdered turmeric

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• Step 1
•  Take a pan and heat some oil and put mustard seeds. Once, the seeds crackle, add the asafoetida and curry leaves and saute for a few seconds.
• Step 2
• Then add grated garlic, chopped green chillies and saute the ingredients for a few seconds.Then, add the potatoes, turmeric powder and salt and mix well.
• Step 3
• Meanwhile, make the batter by combining besan, haldi, baking soda and little water (almost 1/3 cup).When the potato mixture has cooled, make equal sized 8 tikkis. You can give it a desired shape, in Maharashtra the vada is mostly prepared in a round shape
• Step 4
• Then take a shallow fry pan and heat oil. Once the oil is hot enough, then dip each tikki/ vada in the batter and then slowly slide it in the hot oil. Deep fry all 8 tikkis in hot oil, till golden brown. Drain on absorbent paper and keep aside. Slice each pav into half and place one vada in each pav and serve immediately with green chutney. You can also add a fried homemade chili in the Vada Pav to accentuate the taste.
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