Vada Pav

Preparation Time - 30 Min                                   Cooking Time - 20 Min                   Yield - 12 Vada

Ingredients :

For Filling:

Potato - 4 Big

Green Chili - 4

Ginger - 1/2 inch piece

Garlic - 8 cloves

Curry leaves - 6

Asafoetida - a pinch

Salt - to taste

Mustard seeds - 1 Tsp

Turmeric powder - 1/2 Tsp

Asafoetida - a pinch

Oil - 1 Tbsp

For Cover:

Gram flour(Besan) - 2 Cup

Baking soda - a pinch

Turmeric powder - 1/2 Tsp

Red chili powder - 1/2 Tsp

Salt - 1/2 Tsp

Oil - 1 Tbsp


Oil - to deep fry

Pav - 12

Red garlic chutney - 1/4 Cup

Method:

1) Boil and mash potato and keep aside.

2) Grind ginger, garlic and green chili and make a fine paste. Mix this paste in mashed potato.

3) Heat 1 tbsp of oil in a pan, add asafoetida and turmeric powder add this oil on mashed potato mixture and mix well.

4) In a bowl take besan. Heat one tbsp of oil in a pan and add it to besan and mix well.

5) Add baking soda, turmeric powder, red chili powder and salt in besan and mix well. Add water as required and make a smooth batter. Batter should not be very thick or very thin.

6) Make small ball of potato mixture and dip it in besan batter and deep fry in hot oil on medium flame.




7) Sprinkle little red chutney on pav, put hot vada and serve with green chili.

Vada Pav

Pav Bhaji

Preparation Time - 20 Min                 Cooking Time - 15 Min                   Serves - 5

Ingredients: 

Potato - 4 big

Finely chopped capsicum - 1 Big

Green peas - 1 Cup

Finely chopped tomato - 4 Big

Finely chopped onion - 2 Big

Finely chopped cauliflower - 1 Cup

Butter - 4 Tbsp

Oil - 1 Tbsp

Pav bhaji masala - 2 Tsp

Coriander leaves to garnish - 1/4 Cup

Lemon - 1

Pav  - 10

Method :

1) Soak green peas in hot water for 10-15 mins. Boil and mash potatoes.

2) In pressure cooker, add mashed potatoes, chopped capsicum, cauliflower, half of the tomatoes and green     peas. Add 1 tsp salt and 1 cup water  and cook for 10-15 min on low flame and mash these veggies.

3) Heat oil in pan and fry onions till golden brown. Add remaining tomatoes and fry for 1 min.

4) Add mashed veggies in this and mix well. Add 1/2 cup water and bring to boil on medium flame.

5) In small pan heat butter, switch off stove and then add red chili powder and pav bhaji masala.
    Put this butter tadka masala on mashed veggies. Add half lemon juice.Mix well and cook for 5 mins.

6) Add little butter on griddle; cut pav horizontally and fry till brown in color and crispy.

7) Garnish Bhaji with fresh coriander leaves, chopped onion. Add little butter on bhaji and serve hot with fried pav.You can add grated cheese on bhaji and enjoy cheese pav-bhaji.