Vada Pav (Indian Burger)

A community recipe by Sneha

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Introduction

This is the most common food you'll find in Mumbai and it's famous as the Indian Burger. Well I admit it's high cholesterol but at times I give up on this.

Ingredients

Serves: 4-5

For the Filling

3 large potatoes (boiled)
1 finely chopped onion
3 green chiles
1 piece of fresh gingerroot
5 cloves finely chopped garlic
cilantro
1 teaspoon turmeric
1 pinch of asafoetida salt (to taste)
gram vegetable oil (for frying)

For the Coating

2½ cups gram flour (besan)
1 teaspoon turmeric
1 teaspoon curry powder
1 teaspoon ground cumin
1½ cups water
bread (fresh bakery bread - to serve)

Method

Vada Pav (Indian Burger) is a community recipe submitted by Sneha and has not been tested by Nigella.com so we are not able to answer questions regarding this recipe.

Grate the boiled potatoes.

make a fine paste of ginger, garlic and chillies.

In a pan, add 1 teaspoon of vegetable oil, add the ginger-garlic-chilli paste.

Once it starts crackling, add turmeric & asafoetida and the chopped onions.

Mix well and cover with the lid for few minutes so that the onions become soft & pinkish.

Now add the corriander and grated potatoes. Add salt according to taste and mix well.

Let it cook for few minutes on low flame with lid on it.

Remove it from heat and keep it aside so that it comes to room temp.

In a frying pan take sufficient oil for frying and keep it on a low flame for heating it.

In the mean time take the gram flour and add turmeric, red chilli powder, cumin powder & salt. Mix well and start pouring in the water.

Remember that the batter should not be very running, it should be thick (similar to the cake batter).

Make small balls of the potato mixture and dip them into this bater and deep fry.