Batata Vada Recipe (Potato Dumplings)
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Batata Vada Recipe (Potato Dumplings)

By March 23, 2015

Batata Vada is one of the most delicious and most famous street foods of Maharashtra. It is often eaten with pavs or buns of bread as Vada-pav. But you can eat it alone with the Coriander chutney or the Fritter chutney and enjoy as a tea time snack. The video that I have included with this recipe shows how to make these delicious dumplings first and also shows how to make another delicious snack - Vada Pav.  Hope you enjoy it!

Ingredients

Instructions

Filling:

  1. Partly mash the potatoes into small pieces with hand (as in the picture below). Do not mash completely.
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  2. Add chopped onion, ginger paste, garlic paste, and crushed green chilies.
  3. Add salt to taste and mix well. Make small balls one to one and half inches big with this filling.

For the batter :

  1. Add salt and sodium bicarbonate to the gram flour. Add water slowly with one hand while simultaneously mixing and breaking all the lumps with the other hand. Make into a thick and smooth batter. The batter should be thick enough to nicely coat the dumplings all around, in the next step. (I used about 1 cup water for 1 & 1/2 cups of gram flour.)

Frying :

  1. Heat oil in a pan for deep frying. Check the correctness of the oil temperature by adding a small drop of the batter in the oil. It should sizzle and float to the top but shouldn't turn brownish immediately. If it starts turning brown in a few seconds, then reduce heat.
  2. Dip one ball of the potato filling into the batter to coat it from all sides and deep fry on a medium flame to get a nice golden color.
  3. Remove on paper towel to drain excess oil.
  4. Repeat with all of the balls of the filling.
  5. Serve hot with sweet and sour Tamarind Chutney  , coriander chutney, ketchup or with the spicy fritter chutney.
  6. It can also be eaten with a bun of bread as in Vada- Pav.