Vada Pav Recipe
Vada Pav is a popular Indian street food with a deep fried potato fritter wrapped inside a pav bun sandwiched between red and green chutneys and accompanied by fried green chili. Vada Pav is popularly known as Batata Vada Pav or Mumbai Vada Pav. Learn to make Vada Pav with step by step pictures.

The first time I had vada pavs was during our college tour to Mumbai as my friend suggested to taste it and I just loved it. This is a famous chat item in North and it is my most favorite.
[feast_advanced_jump_to]About Vada Pav
Vada Pav is a Mumbai classic street food which has deep fried potato fritters sandwiched between a pav bun with red chutney and green chutney. The potato fritters can be either deep fried or tawa fried just like I did. Vada here refers to the potato fritters and Pav is Pav bun.
Vada Pav is spicy and packed with flavors and textures. I just love the potato fritters as such so make a little extra to much it separately. The garlic chutney is the highlight here so do not miss, it is super flavorful and spicy.
This is very famous chat in north India especially Mumbai and Kolkata. If you don't get pav buns go ahead with normal buns.

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Vada Pav Ingredients
- Pav Bun - Pav buns are used traditionally for vada pav but you can use regular buns too.
- Potato Fritters - Boiled potato is mashed and cooked along with onion, green chili and made into small balls.
- Besan batter - A batter is made using gram flour, rice flour, turmeric powder, red chili powder.
- Red Chutney - Garlic along with red chilies, coconut, tamarind and salt are grind to make a chutney.
- Green Chutney - Green chutney is made using mint leaves and coriander leaves.


How to make Vada Pav Step by Step
For the vadas
1.Heat oil, add mustard seeds and jeera, allow it to crackle. Add green chillies, ginger garlic paste and saute for mins.Add onions and saute till it turns lightly browned. Then add mashed potatoes, turmeric powder, required salt and mix well. Add chopped coriander leaves,mix well and switch off. Allow it to cool and make small balls and keep it ready.

For the vada coating
Mix besan flour, rice flour, salt, turmeric, chilli powder, baking soda.Add little water to form a paste like we do for bajjis and bondas.

Now take the balls and dip it to the flour paste and deep fry it till golden brown (I didnt deep fry them instead toasted them in a paniyaram pan)

For the vada pav assembling
Take the buns slit it into halves taking care one end is still connected to the other bun.Apply the green chutney on one side , red chutney on another side. Keep the prepared vadas in between as shown and enjoy your vada pavs!

Enjoy Vada Pav!
Expert Tips
- Make ahead - This sure needs time but when you are ready with the chutneys then making vadas and assembling them as vada pavs is easy.
- Assembling - Usually the vadas are nothing but our aloo bondas. The chutney combination and assembling it as vada pav gives a unique taste.
- Toasting - I chose to toast in paniyaram pan, instead you can deep fry them as the orginal recipe says.
Serving and Storage
You can make the potato fritters, batter, chutneys ready well ahead of time. Then at the time of serving fry the potato fritters, assemble and serve. Serve it with fried green chili the best combo.

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Vada Pav Recipe
Ingredients
- 4 pav buns
- 2 tablespoon red chutney see recipe below
- 2 tablespoon green chutney as required
For the vadas :
- 2 boiled potatoes medium sized
- Β½ teaspoon cumin seeds
- Β½ teaspoon green chillies chopped finely
- Β½ teaspoon mustard seeds
- 1 teaspoon ginger garlic paste
- 1 onion medium sized chopped finely
- Β½ teaspoon turmeric powder
- 2 teaspoon coriander leaves
- 2 teaspoon oil
For vada outer coating:
- ΒΌ cup besan flour
- 1 tablespoon rice flour
- Β½ teaspoon chilli powder
- salt to taste
- a pinch baking soda
- oil to toast / deep fry
Red Garlic chutney:
- 5 tablespoon coconut
- 1 red chillies
- 4 garlic chopped finely
- 1 teaspoon tamarind
- salt to taste
Instructions
For the vadas:
- Heat oil, add mustard seeds and jeera, allow it to crackle.
- Add green chillies, ginger garlic paste and saute for mins.
- Add onions and saute till it turns lightly browned. Then add mashed potatoes, turmeric powder, required salt and mix well.
- Add chopped coriander leaves,mix well and switch off. Allow it to cool and make small balls and keep it ready.
For the vada coating:
- Mix besan flour, rice flour, salt, turmeric, chilli powder, baking soda. Add little water to form a paste like we do for bajjis and bondas.
- Now take the balls and dip it to the flour paste and deep fry it till golden brown (I didnt deep fry them instead toasted them in a paniyaram pan)
Red Chutney
- Dry roast coconut and tamarind till lightly browned. Grind together with all other ingredients. Do not add water its slighly pastey and dry.
- For the vada pav assembling:
- Take the buns slit it into halves taking care one end is still connected to the other bun.
- Apply the green chutney on one side , red chutney on another side. Keep the prepared vadas in between as shown and enjoy your Vada Pavs!
Notes
- This sure needs time but when you are ready with the chutneys then making vadas and assembling them as vada pavs is easy.
- Usually the vadas are nothing but our aloo bondas.
- The chutney combination and assembling it as vada pav gives a unique taste. I chose to toast in paniyaram pan
- You can make the chutneys ready the before day itself and refrigerate them.
The red garlic chutney is fiery hot which makes a apt combination for this vada pav.
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