India

Vada Pav

Name: Vada Pav
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 4 pieces
Cuisine: India
Ingredients: 500 g Potatoes; 150 g Chickpea flour (besan); 1 tsp each Mustard seeds & turmeric; some of each Green chilli & ginger; 1 sprig Curry leaves; 4 Soft rolls (pav); to serve Garlic chutney

Mumbai's spicy potato burger

Vada pav is known as “Mumbai's burger”: a deep-fried, spiced potato dumpling (vada) in a soft roll (pav), served with chutneys.

Created in the 1960s as cheap street food, it is now inseparable from the city - quick, filling and full of flavour.

Servings4 pieces

Time40 min

LevelEasy

Ingredients

Potatoes500 g
Chickpea flour (besan)150 g
Mustard seeds & turmeric1 tsp each
Green chilli & gingersome of each
Curry leaves1 sprig
Soft rolls (pav)4
Garlic chutneyto serve

★ = available authentic in the Asia Boutique

Preparation

Boil the potatoes, mash and season.
Season with mustard, turmeric, chilli, ginger and curry leaves.
Form dumplings, coat in besan batter and deep-fry golden.
Slice the rolls, spread with chutney.
Tuck in the vada and serve at once.

Make it original

Besan and curry leaves for vada pav are in the Asia Boutique.

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