The classic Mumbai style vada pav is a combination of a crispy yet soft batata vada sandwiched between soft pav bread along with spicy garlic chutney and fried green chili. This street food of Mumbai is a MUST TRY!!
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Vada Pav
The spectacular street food from Mumbai, vada pav is Indian style vegetarian potato burger. The dish is made with deep-fried potato dumplings sandwiched between pav bread and accompanied with spicy garlic and green chutney. Vad pav has gained so much popularity that now apart from being street food, it is also served in restaurants and hotels around the world.
Vada pav is also known as Bombay Burger as it also resembles more or less like a regular burger.
Ingredients Needed for Vada Pav
- Potato: Medium-sized salad or regular potatoes.
- Onion: Any kind of white or red onion.
- Green chili: To add some heat to the potato mixture.
- Ginger and Garlic: For chutney and potato filling.
- Spices: A minimal spices like cumin, coriander, red chili, mustard, turmeric, and salt.
- Gram flour and Rice flour: For coating the potato dumplings.
- Oil: For making potato stuffing and deep-frying
How to make Vada Pav
Step 1. Make Garlic chutney- Dry roast garlic and whole red chili. Into the same pan dry roast peanuts and sesame seeds as well.
Cool and coarse grind to make the chutney powder.
Step 2. Make Batata Vada-Heat oil in a pan, add asafetida, cumin, and mustard seeds. Saute for 1 minute.
Add ginger, curry leaves, and green chilies. Now add mashed potatoes and mix well. Add chopped coriander leaves and set aside to cool.
Make lemon-sized balls from it, press between palms, and give a patty-like shape. Keep covered and aside.
Take all ingredients for the batter in a bowl. Slowly add water and mix carefully to avoid lumps. The batter should be thick enough.
Heat oil in a wok. Dip each potato patty in batter and fry in oil till golden and crispy from both sides. Drain on a paper towel and set aside.
Into the same oil fry green chilies as well.
Step 2. Assembling– Take pav buns and slit them in halves, apply garlic chutney on one side. Place the vada in the center along with fried green chutney and serve immediately.
Pro Tips/ FAQs
How to make the best Mumbai style Vada Pav?
To make the best vada pav, keep the garlic chutney and batata vada deep fried and ready. Once you are ready to assemble refry the batata vada again to make it crispier and then assemble the vada pav.
Which potatoes to use for the batata vada?
I prefer using the normal salad potatoes to make the batata vada. As they aren’t that sweet and have a mild taste. Plus they tend to hold the shape together in the batata vada while frying.
How long can we store the garlic chutney?
Garlic chutney has a very long shelf life. You can store it in the refrigerator for a month or so. But make sure to use dessicated dry coconut if you are planning to store it for longer.
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Vada Pav
Equipment
- Wok
Ingredients
For Garlic chutney
- 8-10 garlic cloves
- 1/4 cup coconut dessicated
- 1/4 cup peanuts
- 2 tablespoons sesame seeds
- 8-10 whole red chilli
For Vada
- 7-8 potatoes boiled
- 1 onion. chopped
- a pinch aseftida
- 1 teaspoon mustard seeds
- 1 teaspoon cumin seeds
- 2-3 green chilies chopped
- 2 teaspoon ginger grated
- 1/2 teaspoon red chilli powder
- 2 teaspoon garlic grated
- 1 teaspoon coriander powder
- 1/2 teaspoon turmeric powder
- few coriander leaves chopped
- 1 tablespoon oil
For covering
- 1 cup gram flour/besan
- 1/4 cup rice flour
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon red chili powder
- oil for frying
For Pav
- 6-8 Pav bun5-6 whole green chillies
- Green chutney if required
Instructions
Make Garlic chutney
- Dry roast garlic and whole red chili. Into the same pan dry roast peanuts. coconut and sesame seeds as well.
- Cool and coarse grind to make the chutney powder.
Make Batata vada
- Heat oil in a pan, add asafetida, cumin, and mustard seeds. Saute for 1 minute.
- Add ginger, curry leaves, and green chilies. Now add mashed potatoes and mix well.
- Add chopped coriander leaves and set aside to cool.
- Make lemon-sized balls from it, press between palms, and give a patty-like shape. Keep covered and aside.
- Take all ingredients for the batter in a bowl. Slowly add water and mix carefully to avoid lumps. The batter should be thick enough.
- Heat oil in a wok. Dip each potato patty in batter and fry in oil till golden and crispy from both sides. Drain on a paper towel and set aside.
- Into the same oil fry green chilies as well.
Assembling:
- Take pav buns and slit them in halves, apply garlic chutney on one side. Place the vada in the center along with fried green chutney and serve immediately.
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Notes
How to make the best Mumbai style Vada Pav?
To make the best vada pav, keep the garlic chutney and batata vada deep fried and ready. Once you are ready to assemble refry the batata vada again to make it crispier and then assemble the vada pav.Which potatoes to use for the batata vada?
I prefer using the normal salad potatoes to make the batata vada. As they aren’t that sweet and have a mild taste. Plus they tend to hold the shape together in the batata vada while frying.How long can we store the garlic chutney?
Garlic chutney has a very long shelf life. You can store it in the refrigerator for a month or so. But make sure to use dessicated dry coconut if you are planning to store it for longer.This post was originally posted in 2013, since then I have updated the pictures and content for better engagement.
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Looks delicious sapna…..reminds me of my Mumbai rainy days 🙂
I also wanted to do vada pav, but changed my mind… so popular and so favorite one!!
Thanks for sharing this wonderful post, It is awesome.
You are so inventive. Very nice for the deliciousness.
Am just drooling here, cant resist to those beautiful vada pav, my mouth is watering here.
This is one snack which I can eat umpteen times and simply love it..love the way you have presentedit.
Reminds me of the days when I was working in Mumbai. The wada pav has turned out great.
Super tempting chaat. Love this always…
The most tempting food from the streets of Mumbai! Love it.
Your Vada pavs have turned out to be so tempting Sapana..you got them done so well..
would love to eat them right now.. looks great
Same pinch Sapana.. I made vada pav too and we loved it very much.
perfect for snack time
Such a delicious and tempting vada pav,wonderful presentation…
This is such a famous street food in Maharastra! your pictures are so inviting 🙂
Yummy vada pav. Good choice for this state.
Yummy vada pav. Your pics look so yum,
This one probably defines the essence of Mumbai street food.
Wow!! every shot here is mouthwatering. This is one of our favorite street food ever and your images have permanently etched in my mind.
Your photos of Vada Pav have got me all hungry. Its definitely a must have whenever we visit Mumbai. The dry. garlic chutney is so delicious that sometimes I enjoy it sprinkled on roti or bread.
The sight of Vada pav is making me hungry Sapana. It’s the quintessential street food from amchi Mumbai.
I believe, we can never can get enough of it. It looks tempting.
Vada pav pictures are mouthwatering! We always enjoy these when we go to India and I would love to eat this with ginger chai and spicy chutney!
My family yet to taste vada pav, as soon as batata vada is ready, they vanish in no time so I leave the idea of making vada pav. Drool-worthy pictures.
LOVE batata vada and your clicks are tempting me to make it right away. Thank you for the detailed recipe, I am sure they will turn out amazing.
Who can resist such tempting vada paav! We love it to the core . Your gorgeous pics are making it all the more desirable.
Beautifully made so a delicious looking vada pav. Looks exactly like what the street food served in the tappari.
Oh my god sapana, your photos are making me crave for vada pav now!! So beautifully made and assembled! Totally tempting!!!
Thanks For Sharing this amazing recipe. My family loved it. I will be sharing this recipe with my friends. Hope the will like it.