Mumbai style Chura Vada Pav

Instructions

Stuffing

Step 1: Heat up oil in a pan and add garlic-green chili paste, hing, curry leaves. Fry everything together for about a minute.

Step 2: Turn off the gas and add turmeric powder. Mix well.

Step 3: Add potatoes and break them down with fork.

Step 4: Add salt, coriander leaves and mix well. Remove the curry leaves.

Step 5: Make vade from the mixture and keep them aside. You can decide the size and shape of the vada.

Coating

Step 7: Take besan in a bowl and add rice flour, turmeric powder, salt, baking soda.

Step 8: Mix well and add a little water at a time to make a little thick batter. The batter should have flowing consistency.

Vada & Chura

Step 9: Heat up oil in a pan on medium heat.

Step 10: Drop batter into hot oil for making chura and fry it well.

Step 11: When chura is fried well for about 3-4 minutes take it out, drain excess oil and transfer into a dish.

Step 12: For making vada, take the potato ball and coat it well with batter.

Step 13: Drop the vada in hot oil and fry well on medium heat for both sides.

Step 14: After frying vada well for about 2-3 minutes, flip it over and fry well from other side too.

Step 16: When vada is fried well from both sides, take it out, drain excess oil and transfer into a dish.

Green Chutney

Step 17: Take roasted chana dal, garlic cloves, green chilies in a blender and blend it into coarse paste.

Step 18: Add coriander leaves, mint leaves, rock salt, salt, water and blend it into fine paste. Transfer the chutney into a bowl.

Sweet tamarind Chutney

Step 19: Soak tamarind and gudh in hot water for about 30 minutes.

Step 20: Mash it well and strain the mixture through a strainer.

Step 21: Add red chili powder, rock salt and mix well. Sweet tamarind chutney is all ready.

Assembling Chura Vada Pav

Step 22: Slit ladi pav into half. Do not cut it throughout.

Step 23: Spread green chutney on one side of the ladi pav and sweet tamarind chutney on the other.

Step 24: Place vada and chura on the pav and close it up. Chura vada pav is all ready.