Vada Pav

Name: Vada Pav
Yield: 2 servings
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 4 potatoes, boiled and mashed; 1 tsp mustard seeds, curry leaves, 1/2 tsp turmeric; 2 green chillies, 4 garlic cloves and a piece of ginger, crushed; 1 cup gram flour (besan) for the batter; 4 soft bread rolls (pav); Green chutney and dry garlic chutney; Oil, for deep-frying

वडा पाव/VAH-dah pahv/

Also known as: Wada Pav, Vadapav, Bombay Burger

About this dish

A spiced potato fritter in a soft bread roll with green and garlic chutneys, Mumbai's favourite street snack.

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Ingredients

🥔4 potatoes, boiled and mashed

🌿1 tsp mustard seeds, curry leaves, 1/2 tsp turmeric

🌶️2 green chillies, 4 garlic cloves and a piece of ginger, crushed

🌾1 cup gram flour (besan) for the batter

🍞4 soft bread rolls (pav)

🫙Green chutney and dry garlic chutney

🫗Oil, for deep-frying

Method

Serves 2

Fry the mustard seeds, curry leaves and crushed chilli-garlic-ginger in a little oil, add the turmeric and mix into the potatoes with salt.

Shape into balls.

Whisk the gram flour with water, salt and a pinch of turmeric into a thick batter.

Dip the balls in the batter and deep-fry until golden.

Split the pav, spread with the chutneys, add a hot vada and press together. Serve with fried green chillies.

✓ What Makes it Authentic

Vada pav is said to have been created in the 1960s outside Dadar station in Mumbai as a cheap, filling snack for mill workers.

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