Street Food Series: Chicken Vada Pav Recipe

Vada Pav is a iconic street food of India, originated in Maharashtra. Combination of chutneys, potato fritters sandwiched in pillowy pav buns is a very addictive and pocket friendly snack sold during tea time.

I thoroughly enjoy the vegetarian version vada pav but wanted to experiment and try the same recipe using chicken mince. This is vada pav recipe is purely my experiment and we enjoyed the flavors and taste.

Chicken Vada Pav Recipe Video

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Ingredients Chicken Vada:
2 to 3 Loafs Pav Buns
3 Medium Boiled Potatoes (Peeled and Crumbled)
250 Grams Chicken Mince (Godrej Real Good Chicken Keema)
100 Grams Frozen Peas
1 Large Onion (Finely Chopped)
1 Inch Ginger (Finely Chopped)
10 Pearls Garlic (Finely Chopped)
3 Sprigs Curry Leaves (Finely Chopped)
5 Sprigs Coriander Leaves (Finely Chopped)
3 Green Chilies (Finely Chopped)
1 Tbsp Chilly Powder
1/2 Tsp Turmeric Powder
1 Tbsp Garam Masala (Kitchen King)
1 Tbsp Coriander Powder
1 Tbsp Dried Fenugreek Leaves
3 Tbsp Oil + Oil for frying
Salt as per taste...

Method:
Heat a wok with oil on medium flame. Add finely chopped ginger, garlic and chilies to the oil and fry for a minute.

Add dry spice powders (chilly powder, turmeric powder, dried fenugreek, garam masala, coriander powder) to the ginger masala and fry for few seconds.

Add finely chopped onions, half the amount of chopped curry leaves and coriander leaves to the onion and fry a bit.

Add the chicken mince, peas and coarse salt fry the chicken in the masala for a minute.

Add 1 1/2 cups water stir well, cover and cook until water evaporates and the chicken is tender.

Add boiled and crumbled potatoes to the chicken, stir and well combine both the ingredients.

Place on low flame setting constantly stir and fry making sure the moisture has absorbed. Once all the moisture have absorbed remove from flame and allow the mixture to reach room temperature.

Ingredients for Batter:
2 Cups Sifted Chickpea flour (Kadalai Maavu / Kadale hittu)
1 Tbsp Chilly Powder
1 Tsp Carom Seeds
1/4 Tsp Cooking Soda
2 Tbsp Hot Oil
Salt as per taste...

Method:
In a mixing bowl add the sifted chickpea flour, chilly powder, carom seed powder, cooking soda and salt as per taste. Pour 2 tbsp hot oil on the ingredients which will enhance the flavors.

Gradually add water and mix to form a smooth batter. Prepare a batter slightly thicker than a pan cake batter. Allow this batter to rest for 10 minutes on kitchen counter.

Place enough oil for frying in a wok on lowest flame setting. Allow the oil to gradually reach temperature.

Ingredients for Spicy Mayo Chutney:

1/4 Cup Spicy Red Chaat Chutney (Recipe Blog)

1/4 Cup Plain Mayonnaise

1/4 Tsp Cumin Powder, Chilly Powder, Chaat masala and Salt Optional

Method:

Combine the red chilly chutney and mayo to form a smooth chutney and reserve. To enhance the flavors and taste we can spike the chutney with cumin powder, chilly powder, chaat masala and salt.

Spicy Chaat Red Chilly Chutney Recipe Video

Lets Prepare Chicken Vada Pav:
Slit and soak few green chilies in salt for few minutes.

Once the chicken mixture has reached room temperature check for salt and spice level add if needed, form lime size roundles and reserve.

Whisk the batter once and adjust the consistency. If we dip our finger it should coat our finger.

Dip the chicken roundles in batter and gently drop in hot oil and fry for 2 minutes on each side until it turns golden in color.

Drain the vadas from hot oil and reserve on a tissue paper. Fry the salt marinated chilies in hot oil, drain and reserve.

We can pan toast the pav buns in butter and start preparing vada pav, if you enjoy butter toasted bread.

Once the ingredients are ready to assemble, gather your family and let every person prepare their pav buns. This is very interactive way of connecting with your friends and family.