MEXICAN VADA PAV – Fusion recipe
Ingredients
2 medium sized potato

4 burger buns

2 tablespoons boiled green peas

2 tablespoons boiled carrot

⅓ cup finely chopped capsicum

1 teaspoon chopped fresh coriander leaves

¼ teaspoon turmeric powder

½ teaspoon garam masala powder

½ teaspoon red chilli powder

½ teaspoon chaat masala

2 teaspoons lemon juice

Salt to taste

1 tablespoon Mexican sauce

1 tablespoon oil

1 teaspoon split black gram (urad dal)

1 teaspoon mustard seeds 1-2 green chillies

finely chopped 6-7 curry leaves

½ cup gram flour (besan) Butter as required

Oil for deep-frying

2 table spoon butter

4 cheese slices
For salad

½ cup graded cabbage

Lemon juice

Chilli powder

Chaat masala


Method

• Mix together potato, green peas, carrot,capsicum and coriander leaves in a bowl.

• Add turmeric powder, garam masala powder, salt and 1 tablespoon Mexican sauce.

• Heat 1 tablespoon oil in a small non-stick tempering pan. Add black gram and sauté till golden brown. Add mustard seeds and let the seeds splutter.

• Add green chillies and curry leaves, sauté for 30 seconds and add the tempering to the bowl. Mix well.

• Divide the potato-vegetable mixture into equal portions and shape into vadas.

• Heat sufficient oil in a kadai.

• Mix together gram flour,turmeric, salt and sufficient water in a bowl to make a smooth batter. Add 1 tablespoon hot oil and mix well.

• Dip each vada in the batter and deep-fry in hot oil til golden brown and crisp. Drain on absorbent paper.

• Halve the buns vertically. Apply some butter and Mexican sauce on the halved side of the buns.

• To prepare one vada pav, place one vada and cheese slice on the base of the bun, cover with the top bun and apply some butter on top.

• Heat an electric griller and grease with some butter. Place the vada pav, cover and cook till grill marks... Now ready. serve hot... #recipe