How to Quick Tasty Batata vada

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Batata vada. Batata vada is a popular Mumbai street food snack. In Marathi language 'potatoes' are called as 'batata' and 'vada' means a 'fried snack'. In South India, batata vada is known as Potato bonda. in Mumbai and the rest of Maharashtra this snack is called batata vada.

These are a popular street food not only in Mumbai but across India.

Batata translates to potato and vada to fried dumplings.

In short batata vada are potato vada made by dunking spiced potato balls in gram flour batter and deep fried.

You can have Batata vada using 31 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Batata vada

1. Prepare of potatoes steamed or boiled.

2. Prepare of For the masala :.

3. Prepare of mustard seeds.

4. It’s of asafoetida.

5. Prepare of chopped ginger.

6. It’s of chopped garlic.

7. It’s of medium onion chopped (optional).

8. You need of green chillies chopped.

9. Prepare of fried curry leaves.

10. Prepare of chopped coriander.

11. You need of red chilli powder.

12. You need of salt.

13. It’s of oil.

14. You need of For the batter:.

15. Prepare of gramflour.

16. Prepare of rice flour.

17. You need of baking soda.

18. You need of salt.

19. It’s of red chilli powder.

20. It’s of water or as needed.

21. It’s of warm oil for mix.

22. You need of oil or as needed for deep frying.

23. You need of For chutney:.

24. It’s of chopped coriander.

25. You need of mint leaves.

26. It’s of peanuts.

27. You need of green chilli.

28. Prepare of garlic.

29. You need of ginger.

30. It’s of lemon juice.

31. Prepare of salt.

Batata Vada Recipe - About Batata Vada Recipe: A popular snack from the streets of Maharashtra.

Batata translates into potato in English.

Mashed masaledar potatoes coated in a thick besan (chickpea flour) batter and deep fried till golden.

Served with a tangy chutney, batata vada is a street food delight tat you can easily prepare at home during the monsoon season or usually as an evening.

Batata vada step by step

1. Steam or pressure cook potatoes and mash coarsely when warm.Heat oil in a nonstick pan.Sprinkle mustard seeds and when it crackles,add chopped ginger and garlic and fry lightly.Add few curry leaves and fry.Then add the mashed potato,salt to taste,turmeric and red chilli powder.Add chopped green chillies and coriander leaves and toss till all masalas are mixed in potato.Make balls out of potatoes.Then flatten with palm..

2. Make a thick batter out of gramflour,rice flour,salt,red chilli powder and little turmeric.Add 1 tbsp warm oil and baking soda while making batter.Heat oil.Dip each flattened ball in batter and fry each vada tossing when one side is done till golden brown.Take out all vadas from oil when done and spread on a kitchen tissue to remove excess oil.Serve hot with ketchup or green chutney..

3. For chutney :Assemble all ingredients and grind to a smooth paste using minimum water.Mix lemon juice and salt to taste..

Batata Vada is now ready for serving.

Serve hot with tea and green chutney / tomato ketch up.

Tips and Variations: Mashed potato mixture will turn sticky if boiled potato has excessive moisture.

If mashed potato has excess moisture, cook it in a non-stick pan until excess moisture evaporates.

Transfer it to a bowl, let it cool for few minutes.