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Step 1
Grind all the green chutney ingredients with little water till smooth. Avoid making a watery chutney.
Step 2
Soak tamarind in hot water for 30 to 40 minutes.
Step 3
With your hands, squeeze the pulp from the tamarind in the same bowl or pan. strain the pulp and keep aside.
Step 4
Heat oil in a small pan. lower the flame & add cumin seeds and let them crackle.
Step 5
Add ginger powder, red chili powder, asafoetida. Stir and add the strained tamarind pulp. Cook for 2-3 minutes.
Step 6
Add the jaggery and salt and cook for 4-5 mins more. The mixture would thicken. Let the saunth chutney mixture cool.
Step 7
When cooled, store the saunth chutney in an air-tight dry jar or container. Refrigerate and serve the saunth chutney whenever required with chaat or snacks.
Step 8
Boil or steam potatoes in an Instant pot, pressure cooker or pan until they are completely cooked. Peel and then mash them with a fork in a bowl.
Step 9
Crush garlic and green chillies to a semi-fine paste in a mortar-pestle.
Step 10
Heat oil in a small pan. Add mustard seeds and crackle them. Then add curry leaves and asafoetida. Stir and fry for about 5 seconds.
Step 11
Then add crushed garlic and green chilies paste, which have been crushed in a mortar-pestle. Add turmeric powder. Stir for some seconds until the raw aroma of garlic goes away. Do not brown garlic.
Step 12
Pour this tempering in the mashed potatoes.
Step 13
Add chopped coriander leaves and salt.
Step 14
Mix everything well and then make small to medium balls from the mashed potato mixture. Flatten these balls a bit. Cover and set aside.
Step 15
In another bowl, make a smooth and thick yet flowing batter from the besan, turmeric powder, asafoetida, a pinch of baking soda (optional), salt and water.
Step 16
The batter should not be very thick or thin. If the batter becomes thin, add 1 or 2 tablespoons of gram flour. If the batter becomes thin, then add 1 or 2 tablespoons water. Set aside.
Step 17
In a kadai or pan, heat oil for deep frying.
Step 18
When the oil becomes medium hot, then dip the slightly flattened potato balls in the batter and coat it evenly with the batter.
Step 19
Gently and carefully add these batter coated potato balls in medium hot oil.
Step 20
Depending on the size of the kadai or pan, you can add more or less of the vadas while frying. Don't overcrowd the pan while frying.
Step 21
When one side becomes crisp, lightly golden and firms up then gently turn it over with a slotted spoon and fry the second side. Turn over when the second side is fried.
Step 22
This way turning a couple of times fry the batata vada till they are evenly golden on all sides.
Step 23
Drain them on kitchen paper towels. Make all batata vadas this way and keep aside.
Step 24
When they are still hot or warm, you need to serve them. Take all the chutneys and pav on your work surface.
Step 25
Slice the pav without breaking it into two parts and keep aside. If you don't have sweet chutney, then just make the vada pav with green chutney.
Step 26
Spread both the green chutney and sweet chutney on the sliced pav. You can also spread green chutney on one side and sweet chutney on the other side.
Step 27
Sprinkle the dry garlic chutney. This is optional and if you don't have you can skip it.
Step 28
Place the hot batata vada sandwiched in the bread slices.
Step 29
Serve vada pav immediately or else the pav becomes soggy. You can also serve some fried salted green chillies and both the chutney along with it.
Step 30
You can also serve them as an evening snack with a side of ginger chai or coffee.