Vada Pav is considered to be one of the favorite snack items of the people of Mumbai. Vada Pav is basically a stuffed bun. It is quite easy to make recipe. The ingredients used in this recipe are boiled potatoes, turmeric powder, gram flour, oil, salt and Pav, which is a bun. Inside Pav, fried potato slices are stuffed. Always avoid buying sweet pav as it spoils the taste of the food item.
Masala (spices) usually used to prepare this popular Maharashtrian snack item are ginger, green chillies, garlic and chopped coriander leaves. However, people who prefer strong taste can use curry leaves and mustard seeds.
A particular procedure has to be followed to prepare this item. First grind garlic, ginger and green chillies and make paste out of them. Thereafter peel required number of potatoes and smash it. Now, add the paste to coriander leaves and salt according to the taste. After this pour oil in a pan and add mustard seeds to it. When mustard seeds began spluttering, do not forget to add curry leaves and turmeric powder to it.
Now add potato slices in that pan and mix it with curry leaves, mustard seeds and turmeric powder. Then make small potato
balls. Now pour required
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amount of oil and dip the potato balls and fry it until they get golden brown. In order to make the potato balls more thick it is always advisable to dip it into to the gram flour.
Now comes the last step. Slit the pav proportionately and staff it with this fried potato ball. Usually green chutney (garlic chutney) is also spread inside the pav to make it tastier. Now, the Indian burger is ready to eat.
In most of the street side food outlets of Mumbai, these popular snacks are sold. This recipe can be enjoyed in cheap price so anyone can have it whenever and wherever he likes. It is in fact one of the cheapest vegetarian fast food items of Mumbai.
Karjat railway station of Mumbai is quite famous for selling Vada Pavs. People can have it on the platforms of this station. Vada Pav is of different types, such as Jain vada pav, samosa pav and cheese vada pav.
In rural areas of Maharashtra Vada Pav is popularly known as 'wad pav'. Usually they cost from Rs. 2.50 - Rs. 6.00. It is said that Ashok Vaidya, a vendor (he used to sit outside the railway station of Dadar) first invented this recipe while experimenting with batata vada and split pav.
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