Thursday 13 September 2012

Vada Pav - Indian style burger

Vada Pav is a popular street food and perfect punch  recipe as evening snack.


Ingredients
Potatoes,boiled, peeled and mashed 6 large

Garlic 8-10 cloves

Green chillies 4

Turmeric powder 1/4 teaspoon

Asafoetida a pinch

Lemon juice 1 tablespoon

Fresh coriander leaves,chopped 1/4 bunch

Salt to taste

Oil to deep fry

Pavs 8

FOR BATTER

Gram flour (besan) 1 1/4 cups

Soda bicarbonate a small pinch

Turmeric powder 1/4 teaspoon

Red chilli powder 1/2 teaspoon

Salt to taste

Oil 1 tablespoon

Red chutney

Dry coconut (khopra),grated 3 tablespoons

Red chilli powder 2 teaspoons

Garlic 4-6 cloves

Oil 1 tablespoon

Gram flour Crumbs (besan boondi)1/2 cup

Salt to taste

Method
For red chutney, grind together coconut, red chilli powder and garlic in a mixer. Heat oil in a non stick pan, add this mixture and sauté for a minute. Add the gram flour crumbs and mix well and remove from the heat. Season with salt. Set aside to cool. Grind together green chillies and garlic to a paste. Mix the potatoes, garlic-green chilli paste, turmeric powder, asafoetida, lemon juice, coriander leaves and salt in a bowl. Divide into eight equal portions and roll them into balls. Mix together gram flour, soda bicarbonate, turmeric powder, red chilli powder and salt in a bowl. Heat one-tablespoon oil and add it to the gram flour mixture. Add sufficient water and whisk to make a coating consistency batter. Heat sufficient oil in a kadai. Dip the potato mixture balls in the batter and deep fry in hot oil till golden brown in colour. Drain on an absorbent paper. Slit the pavs horizontally without cutting through, spread the red chutney on the inner sides of the pav and stuff it with hot vadas. Serve hot.


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