Vada Pav Recipe

• Dabeli recipe
• Misal pav recipe

Method: For potato filling( makes 12 bondas)

• ¬†Chop the onions , garlic and ¬†green chilli very finely.
• In a pan add oil and add the 2 tsp oil.
• Throw in the mustard seeds and when it splutters add the garlic and green chilli. When the garlic turns slightly brown add in t onions and add salt.

• Saute till the onions become translucent.

• Mash the boiled potato and and add it to the onions. Add turmeric powder. Saute well by mixing it together.
• Potato filling is ready. Make them into a equal sized balls of a lemon size. ¬†Keep it aside.

• In a wide bowl ¬†add the besan, turmeric powder , salt and baking soda.
• Add water little by little to make it into a thick paste. Let the dough be the consistency of a thick idli batter.

• Heat oil for deep frying. Dip the potato balls in the batter and carefully drop them in the oil. Deep fry them .

• Drain them in a kitchen towel.

For the Dry Garlic Red chutney:

• In a pan add oil and add garlic. Roast them till they become golden brown. Keep it aside.
• When cool grind this, red chili powder, dry coconut, roasted peanuts into a fine powder (without adding any water) along with salt and sugar.

• Dry red chutney is ready .

• Slit the buns , but not fully. Let the edges be stay connected to each other.

• Apply green chutney on one side. I applied on the base side.

• Spread dry red chutney to the base of the bun.

• Place a potato ball (deep fried potato balls) inside this.

• A fried green chilli can be placed near this for extra spiciness.

Note:

1. In the red chutney you can add 1/2 tblsp of roasted white sesame seeds while grinding.
2. Instead of deep frying the vadas you can  cook them over the paniyaram pan, which i do generally for Koftas and make a low calorie Vada pav recipe.