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Vada Pav Recipe, How to make Mumbai Vada Pav Recipe | Kid Recipe

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Vada Pav Recipe – Vada Pav is a popular snack across Mumbai and Maharashtra! At all nook, stall and corners of Mumbai, you will find Mumbaikars just jump on them. It’s quite filling and easily available across India.  They are a hot favorite of college students, school kids, working class. It gives me immense pleasure to share this Mumbai Special Recipe. You wouldn’t come across anyone in Mumbai who must not have eaten vada Pav……..

Vada Pav Recipe, How to make Mumbai Vada Pav Recipe | Kid Recipe

This would be my first recipe which is given to me by my buddy. Buddy’s name is Sumeet and recipe is given by his wife Deepa. Not that I don’t know how to make Mumbai vada pav. But this vada pav has a different version. I am thankful to Deepa Agrawal for sharing this recipe with me. Though I have made a slight modification to this Mumbai Vada Pav. Just added hing and loads of coriander leaves.

Vada Pav’s main ingredients are Potatoes and Gram flour. There are many variations to make this yummy Vada Pav’s. Today I am sharing a different version of Vada Pav. I just loved the taste of this Mumbai Vada Pav. Today evening I just thought of making Vada Pav. The spice of chilies and hot vadas gave me a sweat…….it was spicy and tasty…..yummy. I ate 3 vadas which is unbelievable that too with 4 chilies….. Gosh!

Vada Pav recipe

How to make Vada Pav Recipe:

1. Keep all ingredients handy.

Mumbai Vada Pav-Indian Burger Recipe

2. Take boiled potatoes. Chop them into medium size.

Mumbai Vada Pav-Indian Burger Recipe

3. For Green Paste: Combine curry leaves, Chopped Ginger, Garlic Cloves, Green Chilies. You could pestle it with a mortar using your strength. Otherwise grind them coarsely in grinder with 2tbsp water. Please don’t make this paste too thin.

Green Paste - Mumbai Vada Pav-Indian Burger Recipe

4. For Tadka: Take 2 tbsp Oil in a small pan. Once the oil is hot add mustard. When the mustard crackles  add Asofoetida, Urad dal. Remove from fire.

Mumbai Vada Pav-Indian Burger Recipe

5. Combine tadka, green paste, 1/2 cup coriander leaves, chat masala along with salt and lime juice in the chopped Potatoes. Mix evenly with your fingertips.

Mumbai Vada Pav-Indian Burger Recipe

6. Form small balls out of it. You could from 7 to 8 balls easily. If the potato mixture is sticking to your finger. Rub some oil to your finger. Once all small balls are formed. keep it aside.

Mumbai Vada Pav-Indian Burger Recipe

7. Take a Wok or vessel. Add Gram Flour and water to form a paste.

Mumbai Vada Pav-Indian Burger Recipe

8. Ensure the paste is thick, not thin. Add salt and rest 1/2 cup coriander leaves to it.

Mumbai Vada Pav-Indian Burger Recipe

9. Get a big pan for frying. Pour oil for deep frying. Once the oil is hot. Dip Potato balls into gram flour batter. Gently place them in the oil with your finger or spatula. Ensure you fry these Vada on low flame. Else it might burn. Once they become nice golden brown and crisp. Your vada is ready. I don’t have a pic of this step.

10. Dab some tissue paper on it to remove excess Oil.

Vada Pav recipe

11. Fry the rest of vadas and serve on a platter with Fried Green chili. Take pav slice them into 2 halves. Rub some chutney or sauce on the pav. Place this hot vada between the pav. Serve Mumbai vada pavs hot with chutney or Sauce. These Mumbai Vada Pav-Indian Burger Recipe are perfect with a cup of tea in the evening.

Vada Pav recipe

 

Find more Mumbai food like ragda patties recipe, mumbai pavbhaji, sevpuri recipe, chaas, aloo frankie, misal pav and anda bhurji.

Vada Pav recipe card below:

Mumbai Vada Pav-Indian Burger Recipe
Recipe Type: Side
Cuisine: Indian Cuisine
Author: Maria@flavorsofmumbai.com
Prep time:
Cook time:
Total time:
Serves: 8
Mumbai Vada Pav a lip smacking junk – street food of Mumbai which is relished by people from all age groups.
Ingredients
  • 3 Potatoes Boiled
  • 3 Green Chilies (You could use more chilies if more spice required)
  • 15 to 17 Curry Leaves (Kadipata)
  • 17 to 20 Garlic Cloves
  • 1 inch Ginger
  • 1 t/s White Urad Dal (Split White Urad Dal)
  • 1 t/s Mustard Seeds
  • 1 t/s Turmeric
  • 1 t/s Hing
  • 1 cup chopped coriander leaves
  • 2 tbsp Lime juice
  • 1 tbsp Chaat Masala
  • 6 to 7 Pav’s
  • 2 cup Oil
  • 6 tbsp Gram Flour
  • 3 tbsp Water
Instructions
  1. Take boiled potatoes. Chop them into medium size.
For Green Paste:
  1. Combine curry leaves, Chopped Ginger, Garlic Cloves,
  2. Green Chilies. You could pestle it with a mortar using your strength.
  3. Otherwise, grind them coarsely in the grinder with 2tbsp water. Please don’t make this paste too thin.
For Tadka:
  1. Take 2 tbsp Oil in a small pan. Once the oil is hot add the mustard.
  2. When the mustard crackles add Asafoetida, Urad dal. Remove from fire.
  3. Combine tadka, greenpaste, 1/2 cup coriander leaves, chat masala along
  4. with salt and lime juice in the chopped Potatoes. Mix evenly with your
  5. fingertips..
  6. Form small balls out of it. You could from 7 to 8 balls easily. If the
  7. potato mixture is sticking to your finger. Rub some oil to your finger.
  8. Once all small balls are formed. keep it aside.
  9. Take a Wok or vessel. Add Gram Flour and water to form a paste.
  10. Ensure the paste is thick, not thin. Add salt and rest 1/2 cup coriander
  11. leaves to it.
  12. Get a big pan for frying. Pour oil for deep frying. Once the oil is
  13. hot. Dip Potato balls into gram flour batter. Gently place them in the
  14. oil with your finger or spatula. Ensure you fry these Vada on low
  15. flame. Else it might burn. Once they become nice golden brown and
  16. crisp. Your vada is ready.
  17. Dab some tissue paper on it to remove excess Oil.
  18. Fry the rest of vadas and serve on a platter with Fried Green chili.
  19. Take pav slice them into 2 halves. Rub some chutney or sauce on the pav. Place this hot vada between the pav. Your hot vada pav is ready.
  20. Serve [b]Mumbai Vada Pav’s[/b] hot with [url href=”https://www.flavorsofmumbai.com/dates-chutney/” target=”_blank”]sweet chutney[/url][url href=”https://www.flavorsofmumbai.com/mint-coriander-chutney/” target=”_blank”], spicy chutney[/url] or Sauce. These Mumbai Vada Pav-Indian Burger
  21. Recipe are perfect with a cup of tea in evening.
Serving size: 6 to 7 people
Notes
The Gram flour batter should be thick, ensure you don’t add a lot of water to it.

Comments

  1. Thanks For Sharing this amazing recipe. My family loved it. I will be sharing this recipe with my friends. Hope the will like it.

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  2. one of the best vada pav made till date just added some jowar pearls to it my family loved it and we ate ours with dry garlic chutney and hot chai kudos to u 🙂

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  4. This is very easy and simple recipe to make and I normally make at home, But you added coriander leaves in batter, that’s the different thing over here.

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  5. hi ,this is third time I m making vada pav as per recipe..all d time come out well..thanx for sharing…I can not pin it as dont c pin tab on ur recipe…plz do add.
    again thanx in keep up

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    • Pleased to know this Deepti 🙂 glad you liked the vada pav recipe. Also there is pin button over all images once you scroll you should see around left hand top corner. You are welcome and thankyou.

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  6. Ingrediants for Reshmi Kabab:

    1Kg Bone Less Chicken.
    2 Big Pods Garlic
    1 Big Pc.Ginger
    6 Green Chillies
    5 Red Chillies
    2 Onions
    6 Eggs
    1 small Tea spoon Kasuri Methi
    3 Medium Spoon Corn Flour.
    Recipe:
    Wash Chicken very nicely and “Marinate” it with little Salt, Pepper, Chilli powder and Lime.Keep it in a fridge for 2 hours.
    Now prepare the masala grind finely, Ginger, Garlic, Chilly and Red chilly along with Kasuri methi.Put very less water to grind it. Now Grind onion separately and mix all this in one Bowl. Add little 2 spoon thick curd in this masala and salt to the taste. Add little corn flour (3spoon) and six eggs, now stir lt very nicely. There should not be any lump in this batter.
    Take out the chicken from the fridge and let it come to room temperature. Now take one lit Oil in a Pan, let it become Smokey hot. Now Dip the chicken pieces in the batter and fry it till it becomes golden brown.
    Serve hot with “Schezwan Sauce” or Hot and sweet chilly sauce.

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  7. Thanks maria for sharing so wonderful recipes. after shifting from Mumbai to punjab used to miss these vada pav and pav bhaji a lot. with ur help now we can have that flavour in our own kitchen.

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  8. Mr.Sanjay thanks a ton trust me I am happy you tried the vadapav and it came out well. I know how it is living out of India. Any other recipe you wanna try do lemme know. Take care of yourself and all the best for your studies.

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  9. Hi Maria,

    Thanks for the quick, fast and easy recipe.. Really interesting taste that keeps reminding you of this recipe again again..

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  10. h whould like to stsrt this business in bangalore need to know some information about it and mainly in bangalore where i can source same kind of PAV or can get it from mumbai.

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    • Deepak I don’t know about Bangalore in Mumbai you would get pavs in any good bakery like Naaz bakery in Bandra West.

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  13. This looks really yummy!!!i will definately try this…I heard from my friends that there is a chutney used called lal chutney..can u pls share the recipe of that lal chutney..??

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  14. I’m very impress your recipes
    main nay khud try kr k dekha hay aapki dishes ko,boht taareef hui. main boht khush hoon.

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  15. Thanx maria one more time, for u r recipe. Here all goin well with studies..yes, if i require something tasty i will contact you.
    thanx for u r response.

    sanjay

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  16. Hey……..hi,
    These is my favourite dish when i am very much hungry, especially when i am coming from college, but for post graduation i came to UK. Hey, buddy really i missing a lot lot the vadapav. So by searching the recipe of vadapav i got this…..really am telling its not taken much time to make vada by help of your recipe. Thank you friend for your help.

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    • Sanjay thanks a ton trust me I am happy you tried the vadapav and it came out well. I know how it is living out of India. Any other recipe you wanna try do lemme know. Take care of yourself and all the best for your studies.

      Love,
      Maria

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