Want to make this delicious snack at home? Here's a special recipe from our in-house chef.
Ingredients:
(For 6 vada pavs)
- Mumbai Pavs
- Potatoes - 350 grams
- Oil for frying
- Roasted peanuts - 20 grams
- Curry leaves (7-8)
- Mustard seeds- 1/2 tsp
- Coriander leaves- 1 tbsp
- MOLO Garlic pickle - 2 tsp (Drain the extra oil from pickle)
- Salt
- Turmeric powder - a couple of pinches
- Asafetida (hing)- a pinch
- Water- 1/2 cup
- Besan - 1 cup
- Green chutney - as required
- Tamarind sweet chutney - as required
- Baking soda - a pinch ( optional)
Method of Preparation:
Making the Potato Stuffing
Step 1
- Boil 2 large potatoes about 350 grams
- Peel & mash with a fork in a bowl
Step 2
- Heat 1 tsp of oil in a pan then add 1/2 a tsp of mustard seeds and let them crackle
- Then add 7-8 curry leaves. Stir and sauté for about 5 seconds
Step 3
- Now add 2 TSP of MOLO Garlic Pickle (Lahsun ka achaar)
- Add 20 grams of roasted peanuts and stir well
- Pour this mixture together with the oil into the mashed potatoes
- Add 1 tsp of chopped coriander leaves and salt as required
Step 4
- Mix everything well
- Then make a small to medium balls from the mashed potato mixture
- Flatten these balls a bit. Cover and keep it aside
Making the Batter
- In another bowl, make a smooth batter from 1 cup besan (gram flour), 2 pinches of turmeric powder, a pinch of asafetida, a pinch of baking soda (optional)
- Now add salt and half cup of water (or as needed).
- The batter should have a flowing consistency, it should not be too thick or thin
Bringing it Together
- Heat oil in a pan/wok/kadhai
- When the oil is hot, dip the slightly flattened potato balls in the batter and coat it evenly with the batter
- Gently drop these batter coated potato balls in medium heated oil
- When one side becomes slightly crisp and golden, then turn over gently
- Deep fry them until golden, turning a couple of times needed
- Take the fried balls out, drain them on a kitchen paper towel
- Slice the pav without breaking it into 2 parts and set aside
- Spread both green & sweet chutneys on the sliced pav. You can also spread green chutney on one side and sweet chutney on other side
- Place the potato balls into the pavs
You can also spread a little bit of the MOLO Green Chilli Pickle along with chutneys.
Serve hot, enjoy with kadak chai!