The rainy season has started. In such a situation, everyone feels like eating spicy things. Especially in this season, street food has its unique taste, but sometimes things from outside cause a lot of harm in this season.
Most people like to eat street food in this season. Among these, samosas, pakoras, potato tikki, and vada pav mainly rule the hearts of the people. Many times people shy away from eating outside due to the fear of deteriorating health by eating the dishes available outside. In such a situation, if you want, you can do all these things at home.
If you like vada pav, then you can easily prepare it at home too. To make a vada pav at home, you can buy readymade pav from the bakery. If you want to enjoy vada pav in the rainy season, then prepare vada pav at home using our method.
Ingredients for making vada
3-4 medium-sized potatoes
1/2 teaspoon mustard
1/2 teaspoon turmeric powder
1/2 teaspoon garam masala
1/2 teaspoon dry mango powder
1/2 teaspoon cumin seeds
1 teaspoon ginger-garlic paste
2-3 green chillies (finely chopped)
Some curry leaves
Salt to taste
Oil
For the batter
1 cup gram flour
1/4 teaspoon turmeric powder
1/4 teaspoon red chilli powder
A pinch of asafoetida
Salt to taste
Water
Different types of chutney
Green chutney
Garlic chutney
Sweet tamarind chutney
Method
To make vada, first boil the potatoes and let them cool. After this, heat some oil in a pan. Now add mustard, cumin seeds, and curry leaves in. After this, add ginger-garlic paste and green chilies and fry well. Now add turmeric powder, garam masala, dry mango powder, and salt to it, and then mix well. Finally, add boiled potatoes and mix well with the spices. Now let the mixture cool down and make vada from it.
After this, now you have to prepare a gram flour batter, to which the vada will be added and coated. To prepare the batter, add gram flour, turmeric powder, red chili powder, asafoetida, and salt in a bowl. Now prepare a thick batter by adding water little by little. The batter should not be too thin or too thick.
Now to fry the vada, first heat the oil in a pan. After this, dip the potato balls in the batter and fry in hot oil till they become golden brown. Take out the fried vada on tissue paper so that the excess oil drains out.
Finally, it is time to prepare the vada pav. For this, cut the pav from the middle and apply green chutney, garlic chutney, and sweet chutney on both sides. Now place the fried vada in the middle of the pav. Now serve it hot. You can also serve fried green chilies with it.
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