Vada- pav(tea time snacks)

Ingredients:

• Ladi pav: 1 packet
• Green chutney:
• Vada:
• Dry coconut chutney:

Ingredients: For Dry coconut chutney:

• Fresh coconut: 4 tablespoon scarp
• Chili powder: 1 teaspoon
• Garlic: 2 flakes
• Salt: 1 pinch

Method:

1. Roughly grind all ingredients.
2. Dry chutney is ready for vada pav.

Ingredients For vada:

• Potato: 6 no. (Medium size)
• Onion: 1 (small size)
• Garlic: 8-10 flakes
• Asafoetida: 1 pinch
• Green chili: 4-5 no.
• Ginger: 1”piece
• Green coriander leaves: 50 gm.
• Salt: 1 teaspoon
• Chat masala: half teaspoon
• Whole coriander: 1 tablespoon
• Mustard seed: half teaspoon
• Turmeric powder:  half teaspoon
• Mustard oil /cooking oil: for frying

Ingredients For outer layer of Vada:

• Ajwain (carom seeds): half teaspoon
• Besan (gram flour): half cup
• Water: half cup
• Meetha soda (Sodabicarb): 1 pinch

Preparation:

1. Take a bowl. Put Besan, salt, Ajwain and Meetha soda, put water to make a smooth batter. Keep aside.
2. Boil, peel and mash potatoes. Keep aside.
3. Chop garlic, green chili and ginger in small pieces, grind to make paste. Keep aside.
4. Chop onion into small pieces. Keep aside.
5. Chop coriander leaves.

Method:

1. Take fry pan, put oil and heat, when it smokes add mustard seeds and asafoetida wait till it sputters.
2. Add onion, Stir it and fry (keep it stirring otherwise it may burn).
3. Add garlic, green chili and ginger paste, fry till light brown in color. (About 2-3 minutes)
4.  Add mashed potato and turmeric powder.
5. Fry for couple of minutes. Put off the flame.
6. Let it cool, add coriander leaves salt and chat masala.
7. Now, potato masala is ready.
8. Divide this potato masala into 10-12 parts.
9. Make round shape ball as shown in photo. Keep aside.

Frying Vada:

1. Take kadhai (fry pan), heat oil in it.
2. Let oil to smoke. Pour a drop of batter into the oil.
3. If batter comes up, it means right temperature of oil otherwise wait for a while and test again.
4. After getting right temperature of oil, dip the ball into batter. (Either helps of your hand or spoon)
5. Deep fry all balls till golden brown, now vada is ready. Keep aside.

For serving vada- pav:

1. Take single pav, slit it into center.
2. Apply a layer of green chutney and dry coconut chutney. (As shown in photo)
3. Put vada inside the pav; slightly press the pav with your finger.
4. It is mostly served along with fried green chili and chutney.
5. Enjoy this with lemon tea.

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

It is testy and delicious.

it goes very well with chai.

Masala vada- pav, Mouth watering kitty party snacks.

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