Recipe: Tasty Bata vada

Bata vada. Batata vada is a popular Mumbai street food snack. In Marathi language 'potatoes' are called as 'batata' and 'vada' means a 'fried snack'. Batata vada is a popular potato snack recipe from Maharashtrian cuisine.

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. You can have Bata vada using 14 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Bata vada

1. It's 4 of boiled potatoes mashed.
2. Prepare 1 tbsp of crushed red pepper.
3. You need 1 tsp of salt.
4. You need Handful of coriander leaves chopped.
5. You need 3 of green chillies roughly chopped.
6. It's 1 tsp of crushed cumin seeds.
7. You need Handful of spring onion.
8. You need 1 of lemon juice.
9. Prepare of For batter.
10. Prepare 2 cups of baisan (chickpeas flour).
11. It's 1 tbsp of red chilli powder.
12. You need 1 tsp of salt.
13. You need 1/2 tsp of turmeric powder.
14. You need as needed of Water.

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. Have all the ingredients ready before starting to make vada. Make a paste of green chilli, ginger and garlic using mortar and pestle or in the small chutney jar of a mixer grinder.

Bata vada instructions

1. In a bowl add mashed potatoes and all seasoning..
2. Mix well and make balls.
3. For batter: Mix all the ingredients and make a batter..
4. Dip potatoes balls in it and deep fry the vadas..
5. Serve with chutney..

Peel boiled potatoes and mash them with backside of a large spoon. Especially the deep fried boiled potatoes seasoned with Indian spices? Potatoes are known as Batata in Marathi, thus these Vadas are widely known as batata vada throughout Maharashtra. These crispy fried Batata Vadas are the best companion of Ladi Pav as the make the World-Famous combination of Mumbai's street food, Vada Pav. So basically Batata Vada, also known as aloo bonda, is a popular Maharashtrian snack made of deep-fried potato dumplings covered with chickpea batter.