Pav Vada (Potato Patty With Bun)
February 28th, 2010 filed under Appetizers, Chaat, Snacks, Vegan
Pav is a soft bun bread. Vada is a spicy potato mixture coated with gram flour batter and deep fried. This is a very popular dish for people in Mumbai, it’s often sold by road side vendors.
Recipe will make 6
Ingredients
- 4 medium size boiled potatoes
- 2 tablespoons oil
- 1/2 teaspoon black mustard seeds (rai)
- 1/4 teaspoon turmeric (haldi)
- 1 teaspoon ginger paste
- 2 green chilies minced (hari mirch) adjust to taste
- About 2 tablespoons chopped cilantro (hara dhania)
- 1 1/2 teaspoon salt adjust to taste
For Batter
- 3/4 cup gram flour (besan)
- About 2 tablespoons chopped cilantro (hara dhania)
- 1/2 teaspoon salt adjust to taste
- About 1/4 cup of water
Peanut Chutney
- 2 tablespoons of shelled peanuts
- 1 tablespoons sesame seeds
- 1 tablespoons dry coconut powder
- 4 whole dry red chilies adjust to taste
- 1/2 teaspoon salt adjust to taste
Also Needed
- Oil to fry
- 6 buns
For Garnishing
- 1/4 cup tamarind chutney
- 1/4 cup hari cilantro chutney
- 1 thinly sliced tomato
- Some lettuce leaves
Method
Peanut Chutney
- Dry roast peanuts on medium heat until peanuts lightly change color. Add red chilies and roast for another minute until chili become dark. Reduce the heat to low, add sesame seeds and roast for another minute. Turn off the heat, add coconut powder and mix it well.
- Transfer the peanut mix into a bowl.
- Wait until the peanut mix cools off. Grind it to make it a coarse powder. Adjust salt to taste. This is a dry powder chutney.
Batter
- Mix gram flour, salt and cilantro (hara dhania), and add water slowly to make a thick but smooth batter. Set aside.
Vada
- Peel and mash the boiled potatoes keeping the crumbly in texture.
- Heat two tablespoons of oil in a pan on medium heat.
- Add mustard seeds and as the seeds crack add mashed potatoes, ginger paste, minced green chili, turmeric, and salt.
- Stir fry for about 3 minutes over medium heat. Add cilantro mix it well. Turn of the heat.
- After mixture cools off, divide the potato mix slightly bigger than a golf ball.
- Make them into smooth ½ inch thick patties, rolling between slightly greased palms.
- Heat oil in a frying pan on medium high heat.
- The frying pan should have about 1 ½ inch of oil. To check if the oil is ready, put one drop of batter in oil. The batter should come up but not change color right away.
- Dip the potato patties into the batter one at a time, making sure the patties are completely covered by the batter. Then, slowly drop them into the frying pan.
- Vada will take about 4 to 5 minutes to cook.
- Turn them occasionally. Fry the vada until both sides are golden-brown.
How to Serve Pav Vada
- Take one pav bun, slit in half, spread the cilantro chutney and tamarind chutney to each pav as desired.
- Next sprinkle the peanut chutney.
- Place the potato vada, lettuce leave and sliced tomato on one half of the bun.
hi antiji,
just saw the video of this recipe. liked it very much. i will def try within two days as tom i will try to make besan paare. ur recipes r home made recipes which a house wife really needs. the ingredients can be easily found at home. thanku for ur help.
i heard n have seen that many of them add garlic chutney. can i ad some garlic in the peanut chutney or do u hv any other recipe for garlic chutney. please reply.
What is to be done when mashed potatoes do not form balls. It sticks on your palms.please advice.
Farida,
If potatoes are over boiled they become too soft and potatoes have absorb too much water and it becomes hard to form the balls, if you corn starch add little of that otherwise roasted besan. That should help.
Hi Manjula aunty!
I tried your pav vada, they turned out great! everyone enjoyed them alot. Infact, all your recipes are amazing….and the best part is that they are so easy. Thanks for sharing.
hello Manjulaji,
you are making dishes with so ease and only with material which we can found in our kitchen.thank you for making dishes so simple.
Hi Payal,
I tried this vada and it was wonderful I only added garlic (verylittle quantity) it was very good. Generally I don’t eat garlic but just to try the taste.
Do you know how to make Shegaon Kachori.
Manjula Aunty,
Tried this receipe first time and able to impress my guests…..Well all accolades you truly deserve…
They found it so tasty that i was short of them
is any of yours book available or any good book for cooking recipes
auntiee ji, it was nice to visit your site and note down new recipes.it was nice trying few of these snacks. very nice efforts. and i like all the time see you nice nice recipe .
regrad
manjit
auntiee ji, it was nice to visit your site and note down new recipes.it was nice trying few of these snacks. very nice efforts.
Shivani,
Do you live in the US? Barnes and Noble always has a sale section with TONS of cookbooks that are on sale – usually always between 5 and 15 dollars US. I’ve found tons of Indian / Vegetarian cookbooks from there this way.
is any of yours book available or any good book for cooking recipes
Look for the following title- it is a great cook book:
Pure and Simple: Homemade Indian Vegetarian Cuisine by Vidhu Mittal
It can be found at http://www.amazon.com as well.