- Pour 1 tablespoon oil into a kadai on high heat. Once oil is hot, toss in mustard seeds, and when they start to crackle, add asafoetida,cumin seeds, red chilli powder, turmeric powder, and curry leaves. Give it all a few good stir,and then tip in mashed potatoes. Mix well and cook for about 3 minutes. Add minced onions and stir for about a minute. Add 1 teaspoon water, garlic paste, ginger paste, and salt. Cook for about 2 minutes, stirring the vada mixture occasionally. Remove from heat and allow to cool slightly. Pour 1 teaspoon oil in a wok on high heat. Once oil is hot, toss in garlic and stir till light golden brown, about 1 minute. Turn off heat and add coconut. Remove and when slightly cool place in a grinder.Add roasted peanuts, salt, roasted sesame seeds, and red chilli powder, and grind to a paste. Set aside. Add minced coriander leaves and minced green chillies to the reserved vada mixture. Mix well with a spatula, and then divide the mixture into bolls. Roll each vada between your palms till smooth and set aside to prepare the batter. Tip besan into a bowl. Add red chilli powder, salt, rice flour, turmeric powder, coriander powder, and baking soda – and mix well. Pour in 1 tablespooon oil and water.and whisk to a smooth pouring consistency. Pour oil into a wok and place on high heat. Once the oil is hot, dip a vada into the batter and carefully place in the hot oil. Fry till golden brown all over. Remove vadas with a slotted spoon and set on kitchen paper napkins. Assembling vada pav: Slice the pao in half horizontally leaving one side attached. Generously slather green chutney on one cut side and imli chutney on the other cut side. Spread red garlic chutney to taste on the hari chutney, top with one vada, one fried green chilli, and then press down with the top of the pao to smash the vada just a bit. Repeat for all vadas. Serve.
Vada pao
#myrecipe
By Arun Kumar
Mar, 6th
556
Servings
2 persons
Cook Time
20 minutes
Ingredients
21
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Ingredients
- Oil
- Mustard
- Hing
- Cumin
- Red chilli powder
- Turmeric
- Curry leaves
- Potato
- Onion
- Lemon
- Ginger garlic paste
- Salt
- Corinader
- Green chillies
- Coconut
- Peanut
- Sesame seeds
- Besan
- Rice flour
- Turmeric powder
- Baking soda
- Corinader powder
- Pav
