Recipe: Tasty 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 have Batata Vada using 16 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Batata Vada

1. It's of Potatoes 4-6 medium.
2. You need Gram of Flour 4.
3. It's of Garlic and green chilly.
4. It's of Fresh coriander leaves chopped 1/4 cup.
5. It's to taste of Salt.
6. You need 1/2 tsp of Turmeric powder.
7. It's of Oil for deep fry.
8. You need 1/2 teaspoon of Mustard seeds.
9. Prepare 1 pinch of Asafoetida.
10. You need 1/2 of Lemon juice.
11. You need 1/2 of Chat masala.
12. Prepare 1 pinch of Soda bicarbonate.
13. You need 1 tsp of red chilly powder.
14. You need 1/2 tsp of dhaniya powder.
15. You need of Cumin seeds.
16. It's leaves of Curry.

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 step by step

1. Take besan in a bowl, add soda bi-carbonate, remaining turmeric powder, red chilli powder, salt, dhaniya powder, one tablespoon of hot oil and enough water and whisk to make a batter of coating consistency. Cover and rest the batter for fifteen minutes..
2. Boil, cool, peel and roughly mash the potatoes. Grind green chillies and garlic together in a mixer and make a paste. In a bowl mix mashed potatoes, garlic-green chillies paste, quarter teaspoon of turmeric powder and salt..
3. Heat two tablespoons of oil in pan, add cumin seeds, when they crackle, add curry leaves, asafoetida. Remove from heat and add to the potato mixture. Add lemon juice, chat masala and mix well. Make equal sized balls of the above mixture. Keep aside.
4. Heat sufficient oil in a kadai. Dip the potato mixture ball in the batter and deep fry till golden. Drain and place them on an absorbent paper. Serve hot with tomato sauce..

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.