Maharashtra
Vada pav
A potato fritter in a bun, with garlic chutney attitude. Mumbai's real local train.
50 minTime
18 gProtein each
mediumSpice
Mumbai's own burger3 chapters · 2 min readMake it your way
Grandma's wayThe original. Handle with reverence.
The original719kcalsame
18 gproteinsame
11 gfibresame
50minutessame
Per serving, worked out from the ingredient table.
Ingredients
Method
6 steps- 1Boil, peel and mash the potatoes roughly. Crush ginger, green chilli and 5 cloves of garlic to a coarse paste.
- 2Heat 1 tbsp oil, add mustard seeds, curry leaves, asafoetida, the crushed paste and half the turmeric. Pour over the potato with coriander, lemon and salt. Mix and shape 8 balls.
- 3Whisk besan, rice flour, the rest of the turmeric, salt, soda and water into a thick batter.
- 4Heat oil for frying. Dip each ball in batter and fry in batches on medium heat, turning once.
- 5For the dry chutney, toast the remaining garlic and the coconut in a dry pan until golden, then pound with chilli powder and salt.
- 6Slit each pav, spread with green chutney if you have it and the dry chutney, tuck in a hot vada and press.
Serve it like this
Drain on paper for a minute, pile onto a plate and serve hot with chutney on the side.