Today I am presenting another popular street food recipe – Vada Pav. It’s our own Indian burger. It’s the Batata Vada served with dry garlic chutney in a Pav bun or any sweet buns.
In my opinion, Dabeli falls under a sandwich, and Vada Pav falls under the burger. You can include other condiments/toppings and chutneys too, but I just went with the dry garlic chutney and green chutney.
Batata Vada falls under the “Prep Once and Serve Twice” concept. You can prepare and serve the Batata Vada as is or stuff it inside any buns along with chutneys you have in hand. Either way, it tastes delicious. The other highlight is that the dry garlic chutney that we are using here can be prepared well ahead and you can use that for idli and dosa too. (Multipurpose recipes huh)
In one of the festival stalls here in the US, we had this Vada Pav, and they served just with dry garlic chutney. It was mess-free and easy to grab and gobble. I liked that idea and went with the same style, err included the green chutney, though. I spiced up my Batata Vada with garlic-ginger-cilantro chutney and added tamarind paste in my garlic chutney to balance the taste and also to get all the flavors.
When I serve for the kiddo, I add some sugar on top of garlic chutney and also spread some ketchup on the sweet Hawaiian buns that I get from Costco.
This garlic chutney recipe serves for about 8 to 10 vada pavs. But you can double the proportion and prepare in bulk too. As I mentioned above, this goes well with idlis and dosas also.
Ingredients For Dry Garlic Chutney:
- Garlic chopped – 5 to 6
- Dry coconut – 2 tbsp. heaped (I used the dry unsweetened coconut that we use for baking)
- Sesame seeds – 1 tsp
- Peanuts – 2 tsp
- Red chili powder – 1 tsp
- Salt – ¼ tsp
- Oil – 1 tsp
- Tamarind Paste – ½ tsp
Ingredient For Assembling Vada Pav:
- Batata Vadas – 4 to 5 (I posted the recipe yesterday)
- Pav buns or Sweet Hawaiian buns – 4 to 5
- Green Chutney – 1 tsp for each Pav
- Dry Garlic Chutney – about 1 to 2 tsps. for each Pav
- Butter or ghee or oil for toasting the bun
How To Make Vada Pav-
Preparing Garlic Chutney:
- Heat the kadai and add oil.
- Once the oil is hot, add the chopped garlic and roast for 2 to 3 minutes in medium heat.
- Now add the other ingredients except tamarind paste and roast for another 3 minutes.
- Let it cool and dry grind it along with tamarind paste.
That’s it. The dry garlic chutney is ready.
Assembling the Vada Pav:
- Slit the Pav buns into two.
- Heat the tava and add butter or ghee or oil and toast them slightly.
- Now spread about 1 to 2 tsps of the dry garlic chutney on one side and green chutney on the other and keep the Batata Vada on either one side and close it.
- Press it slightly, and that’s it.
Vada Pav is ready. Vada Pav, along with Lassi, is filling combo.
Notes:
- I have used a small amount of garlic. But for this proportion, you can go up to 10.
- Adjust the salt and spices as per your preference.
- You can arrange Vada Pav as per your liking by including other chutneys too.
📖 Recipe
Vada Pav
Ingredients
For Dry Garlic Chutney
- 5 garlic 5 to 6 chopped, depending upon the size
- 2 tbsp Dry Coconut I used the dry unsweetened coconut that we use for baking
- 1 tsp Sesame seeds
- 2 tsp Peanuts
- 1 tsp Red chili powder
- ¼ tsp Salt
- 1 tsp Oil
- ½ tsp Tamarind Paste
For Vada Pav
- 4 Batata Vadas I posted the recipe yesterday
- 4 Pav buns or Sweet Hawaiian buns
- 1 tsp Green Chutney - 1 tsp for each Pav for each pav
- 1 tsp Dry Garlic Chutney – about 1 to 2 tsps. for each Pav for each pav, you can use 2 tsps as well
- 1 tsp Butter for toasting each pav, you can use ghee or oil as well
Instructions
Preparing Garlic Chutney
- Heat the kadai and add oil.
- Once the oil is hot, add the chopped garlic and roast for 2 to 3 minutes in medium heat.
- Now add the other ingredients except tamarind paste and roast for another 3 minutes.
- Let it cool and dry grind it along with tamarind paste.
- That’s it. The dry garlic chutney is ready.
Assembling the Vada Pav
- Slit the Pav buns into two.
- Heat the tava and add butter or ghee or oil and toast them slightly.
- Now spread about 1 to 2 tsps of the dry garlic chutney on one side and green chutney on the other and keep the Batata Vada on either one side and close it.
- Press it slightly and that’s it.
- Vada Pav is ready. Vada Pav along with Lassi is filling combo.
Notes
- I have used a small amount of garlic. But for this proportion, you can go up to 10.
- Adjust the salt and spices as per your preference.
- You can arrange Vada Pav as per your liking by including other chutneys too.
Nutrition
I am not a nutritionist. The nutritional information is provided as a courtesy and is an estimate only. It varies depending upon the product types or brands.
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Today all of you have planned to tempt me bad with your chats, i m literally drooling at that garlic chutney!!! Yummmmm is the word!! :)
ha ha.. thanks Priya.
Vada pav is one of my fav!..I still remember the first time I ate this..so nicely done Srividya.
:-) I like it too. Thanks valli.
Vada pav with garlic chutney & green chilly is a yummy dream!
yummy dream.. :-) love it
What a tempting vada pav. Looks awesome.
Thanks a lot Pavani.
Vada pav looks so sinful . Love the entire setup.
Thanks Sapana.
Vada pav is my favourite snack. I love it in any fprm . with or without chutney this one is tempting me to make some vada pav soon.
:-) Please do make them. Thanks
One more classic street food from you and it looks tempting.
:-) Thanks ma
The pav and garlic chutney are a natural accompaniment to the vada. Perfect snack or even dinner :p
Very true. Thanks yaar.
That vada pav is something to die for! Now I am too tempted to eat some :)
Thanks much..
Adopt me please, you are tempting me everyday to make some chaat foods and am sitting idle here. Couldnt stop myself drooling over those alluring vada pav.
ha ha ha.. sure.. come over anytime. Let’s have a gala time.
Mumbai’s king of street food- Vada Pav – brought into ur kitchen’s blog :)) good presentation ! Well done
Thanks :-)
Delicious to look at. Stunning photography !!!
Thanks much Alboni.
very well explained dear…
Thanks Amrita.
Even though I made so many versions of vada pav , I always drool looking at this amazing street food. I like the garlic chutney version, it is different.
Thanks vaishali
I guessed it right. Amazing vada pavs. I haven’t tried the dry garlic chutney. Must try your version as it sound so yum..
It was pretty obvious na.. ;-) Thanks gayathri.
I love see vadapav and this is an absolutely amazing share without any doubt.. My vote is for that dry chutney.. I actually didn’t know that tamarind is added also… Huuuhhh kindaa mission accomplished for me
he he.. my vote is for that garlic chutney too. Tamarind paste is optional pa.. Thanks a lot
You have tempted us all through the week with the street food. Thanks for the virtual treat!
:-) Thanks Harini. More to come.
Another mouthwatering and popular chaat!!
:-) Thanks Usha
Looks very tempting!
Thanks :-)