How to Make Batata Vada , Mumbai Batata Vada Recipe
Batata vada- Spiced potato dumpling coated with gram flour batter and fried-a popular street food of Mumbai
Ingredients
For stuffing
- 250 gm Potatoes / Aloo
- 1 tbsp Green Chillies / Hari Mirch minced
- 1 tsp Ginger / Adrak
- 1/2 cup Fresh Coriander / Cilantro / Hara Dhaniya chopped
- To Taste Salt
- 1/3 tsp Turmeric Powder / Haldi Powder
- 1/4 tsp Tatri / Nimbu phool/citric acid *
Tempering/ tadka
- 1 tsp Mustard Seeds / Rai *
- 1/4 tsp White lentil/urad daal
- 1/4 tsp Asafoetida / Hing powder
- 8 Curry Leaves / Kadi Patta chopped
- 1 tbsp Cooking Oil
For making the batter for coating
- 1 cup Gram flour / Besan
- 2 tbsp Rice Flour / Chawal Ka Atta
- 1/4 tsp Turmeric Powder / Haldi Powder
- 1 tsp Red Chilli powder / Laal mirch powder
- pinch Asafoetida / Hing powder
- 1 tbsp Hot oil
- Pinch soda bi carb optional
Instructions
- Peel and coarsely mash the boiled potatoes(don’t make a paste of potatoes )
- Heat oil in a pan and add urad daal and mustard seeds.When seed start crackling add asafoetida,curry leaves and green chilies.Stir and then add turmeric powder and boiled potatoes.
- Add salt and citric acid and stir to mix every thing.Remove from the flame and add chopped fresh coriander.
- Mix it and let it cool down a bit.Now make small equal size balls from this potato mixture and keep aside.
- In a bowl add gram flour, rice flour, salt,chili powder and turmeric.
- Add water to make a batter of pouring consistency.Add hot oil and mix well.
- Heat oil in a deep and wide pan.Dip the prepared potato balls in the gram flour batter.
- Gently add in the hot oil and deep fry on medium heat.
- Change the sides 2-3 times in between so get a nice colour from all the sides.Remove from the pan when become golden and crisp.
- Drain on a paper napkin to absorb the extra oil.
- Slit or poke hole in few green chilies and deep fry them.
- Drain on a paper napkin and sprinkle some chat masala or salt over them.
- Serve hot vadas with green chutney,ketchup and fried green chilies.
Notes
NOTE-
1-To add sourness in the vada you can add either citric acid or lemon juice.
2-Don’t mash the potato completely,just mash roughly,don’t make a paste of potatoes.
3-You can reduce the quantity of minced green chilies and add some red chili powder in the potato mixture.
4-for variation -you can also add some boiled peas at step -3
3-You can reduce the quantity of minced green chilies and add some red chili powder in the potato mixture.
4-for variation -you can also add some boiled peas at step -3