Recipe: Yummy Batata vada

Batata vada. Batata vada is a fried potato stuffed fritter. This is absolutely lip smacking delicious recipe of Maharashtrian style batata vada. Batata vada is a popular Mumbai street food snack.

This street food of Mumbai is almost guaranteed to be found at every chat vendor's stall in entire Maharashtra and key ingredient in Pav-Vada - a staple food for hard working Maharashtrians. Batata translates into potato in English. Mashed masaledar potatoes coated in a thick besan (chickpea flour) batter and deep fried till golden. You can cook Batata vada using 13 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Batata vada

1. It's 4 of big boiled potatoes.
2. It's to taste of Salt.
3. Prepare 3 tsp of finely chopped coriander.
4. You need For of For tempering:.
5. It's 2 tsp of oil.
6. It's Few of curry leaves.
7. It's 3 of green chillies crushed.
8. Prepare 11/2 tsp of garlic crushed.
9. It's 1 tsp of rai.
10. You need For of batter:.
11. You need 1 cup of besan.
12. Prepare 1/2 tsp of red chilli powder.
13. Prepare to taste of Salt.

Served with a tangy chutney, batata vada is a street. Batata vada is a popular potato snack recipe from Maharashtrian cuisine. These are a popular street food not only in Mumbai but across India. Batata translates to potato and vada to fried dumplings.

Batata vada instructions

1. In a bowl mashed potatoes. Add salt and coriander leaves..
2. In a kadhai take oil for tempering. Add rai, curry leaves, green chillies crushed, garlic crushed and saute for 2 mins. Then add haldi powder.Add this mixture on boil potatoes and mix well..
3. Make balls out of this mixture and keep aside..
4. In a bowl take besan. Add salt to taste, red chilli powder, and add water and make a batter. Add 1 tsp hot oil and mix well..
5. Dip the potato balls in besan batter and deep fry. Serve hot with fried chillies and garlic chutney..

In short batata vada are potato vada made by dunking spiced potato balls in gram flour batter and deep fried. Maharashtra style street food - garma garam batata vada is one half of the iconic vada pav. Mashed potatoes are spiced with a simple tempering, dipped in a gram flour batter and deep-fried. It is served with fried green chillies and a red chilli garlic dry chutney. Batat vada is the undisputed king on the streets of Mumbai.