Vada Pav
Vada pav is also known as Indian burger and is a popular street food in Maharashtra. Vada pav is a simple recipe in which a deep fried spicy potato dumpling is placed inside bread and is served with different types of chutneys.
Servings 5 Vada Pav
Ingredients
- 5 bataat vada / potato vada See instructions for recipe
- 5 laadi pav / bread
For Green Chutney:
- 1 cup coriander leaves chopped
- 3 garlic cloves
- 1 teaspoon tamarind pulp
- 2 green chillies
- Salt to taste
For garlic chutney:
- 4 tablespoon chopped garlic cloves
- 1/4 cup dried grated coconut
- 3 tablespoon red chili powder
- To taste salt
- For Fried Green Chilies:
- 10 Green Chillies with stem intact
- 2 pinches salt
- 1/2 cup oil for deep-frying
Instructions
- Let us keep the various ingredients ready:
Pav:
- You can get laadi pav from bakery or store. Else you can follow my pav recipe and bake bread at home.
Vadas:
- Prepare the vadas. Follow this bataat vada recipe of mine to prepare crispy vadas.
Green chutney:
- Add all ingredients for green chutney mentioned in ingredients in a blender along with 2 tablespoon water and make a thick chutney or paste. Keep aside.
Red garlic chutney:
- Heat a kadai and add oil.
- Add chopped garlic and sauté till garlic releases nice aroma.
- Add dried grated coconut and mix well. Switch off the gas.
- Add red chili powder and salt and mix.
- After cooling, add it to mixer and dry grind.
- If it remains after using, you can store in an air-tight container and keep in fridge.
Deep fried green chillies:
- Slit the green chilies, keeping stem intact.
- Apply salt and keep aside for 10 minutes.
- Heat a kadai and add 1/2 cup oil.
- After oil gets heated, deep fry the green chillies one by one.
Finally let's assemble vada pav:
- Slit the laadi pav.
- Apply 1 tablespoon green chutney. Next sprinkle 1 tablespoon garlic powder.
- Keep the bataat vada and apply 1 teaspoon garlic chutney.
- Keep 1 or 2 deep-fried green chillies.
- Close and serve.