Vada Pav

 Vada Pav is a famous Maharashtrian street food

Ingredients:

• Pav bread - 6 nos
• Oil - for deep fry

For Dry garlic chutney:

• Garlic chopped roughly - 1/4 cup
• Chopped dried coconut - 1/4 cup
• Chilli powder - 2 tspn ( as required )
• Oil - 2tspn
• Salt - to taste

For aloo stuffing:

• Boiled Potato - 3 nos ( medium size)
• Green chilli paste - 2 to 3 tspn
• Garlic paste - 2 tspn
• Turmeric powder - a pinch
• Asafoetida powder - a pinch
• chopped coriander - 1 tblspn
• Lemon juice - few drops (optiomal)
• Oil - 2 tspn
• Salt - to taste

For batter:

• Besan flour - 1/2 cup
• Chilli powder - 1/4 tspn
• Turmeric powder - a pinch
• Asafoetida powder - a pinch
• Cooking soda - a pinch ( optional )
• Water - as required
• Salt - to taste

For green chilli fry:

• Green chilli - 5 nos
• Oil - 2 to 3 tspn
• Salt - to taste

Method:

For dry garlic chutney:

• Heat oil in a pan add chopped garlic and saute for few minutes until it start turns to light brown
• Switch off the stove and add chopped dried coconut and saute till heat it there
• In a mixie add sauted garlic, coconut, chilli powder and salt and grind it to coarse paste
• No need to add water. Transfer it to a bowl and keep aside.

For Aloo stuffing:

For outer covering ( batter ):

• In a bowl take besan flour, chilli powder, turmeric powder, asafoetida powder and salt then add water, mix well to form a batter ( idli or bajji batter consistency)
• To this add a pinch of cooking soda at the time of using .

For aloo masala:

• In a bowl take boiled potato without skin and smash it
• Heat oil in a pan add asafoetida powder, then turmeric powder,green chilli and garlic paste
• Saute for few seconds then add smashed potato ,salt and  mix well
• Switch off the stove and add chopped coriander. divide the masala in to 6 balls and keep it aside

For making vada

• Heat oil in a kadai, take one aloo masala ball dip it in batter and deep fry it in oil
• Take it out after it turns golden brown on both sides
• Repeat the process for remaining balls
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For Green chilli fry:

• Slit the green chilli upto 3/4 th part and keep it aside
• Heat oil in a pan add the green chilli and saute till it shrinks
• Switch off the stove add salt mix well and keep it aside

Assembling vada pav

• Take a pav and slit in centre ( dont cut it fully upto 3/4th part )
• Apply dry garlic chutney in bottom the place the aloo vada in centre and close the upper part
• It wont close fully. Serve this tasty vada pav along with fried green chilli .

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