Batata vada – Aloo Vada

Batata vada recipe for vada pav is a popular potato snack recipe or street food from Maharastra. Mashed and spiced up potatoes are dipped in a gram flour batter and deep fried.

This is a delicious tried and tested step by step recipe for aloo vada that you can use for making vada pav also. Served piping hot with green chutney and adrak chai, these are best evening snack ever.

This batata vada recipe is similar to south Indian aloo bonda while the seasonings mildly differ. Batata means potato in Marathi and vada usually stands for deep fried flattened snack.

Deep fried dumpling like snacks are very popular across India. You will find snacks like masala vada, mysore bonda, aloo bonda in all Indian regions.

There are many delicious snacks made with potatoes like samosa, aloo tikki, chili potatoes, aloo puri, sabudana vada that we love at home and I make them for tea.

Aloo vada are very quick and easy to make snack, especially when kids crave for some easy evening snacks.

Potatoes are staple at most homes and so is gram flour. So making this recipe is a breeze.

This batata vada recipe I am sharing here is similar to what you get in street shops. Tastes very delicious and addictive when served hot with tea. This Batata Vada Recipe Is

Easy, quick to make snack for tea

Delicious and crispy

Vegan and can be made gluten free by skipping asafoetida

Perfect for making vada pao

Kids Friendly snack

Popular Indian street food

What Is Batata Vada?

Batata vada also known as aloo vada is a deep fried potato fritter basically. To make batata vada first of all boil, peel and mash the potatoes. Next add salt, turmeric powder and tempered mustard seeds, curry leaves and asafoetida. Add coriander leaves, lemon juice, mix well and make small balls.

Adding curry leaves and coriander leaves is for flavor and lemon juice balances the taste in this recipe batata vada.

Next make a thick yet flowing lump free batter with gram flour or besan chickpea flour, salt, red chilli powder and asafoetida.

Dip the seasoned potato balls in this besan batter and deep fry in hot oil. You can also slightly flatten the balls to give vada shape.

Batata vada are one of the easiest snack you can make for tea or after school snack. You can make the batter and the potato filling, shape it and refrigerate few hours ahead. At the time of frying just dip, fry and serve hot.

I don’t add baking soda for this recipe. It is not required at all. If are used to adding baking soda in batters, you can add a pinch of baking soda or soda bi carbonate along with flours.

How To Make Batata Vada Recipe

Gram Flour Batter

To make batata vada batter, in a bowl add gram flour besan, rice flour, red chili powder and salt. Add 2 teaspoons oil from the frying pan and add to the flours. Mix with your finger tips.

Add water around 3/4 cup to form a thick batter. The batter should be thick enough to coat the potatoes.

Preparing Potato Mixture

Boil potatoes until soft and peel them. You can boil them in a pan or instant pot or pressure cooker.

Stove top- in a pan with enough water for 15 minutes

Pressure cooker- 3 whistles in medium heat

instant pot- 7 minutes in manual or pressure cooker mode, valve sealed.

Mash them well so that there are no lumps. Mash them very smoothly.

Heat 2 teaspoons oil in a pan and add mustard seeds, cumin seeds, curry leaves, green chilli, ginger garlic, 1/2 tsp turmeric powder, asafoetida. You can leave out green chili if you prefer. I usually add 2 green chillies as we prefer it spicier batata vadas.

Fry them for a minute. Add the prepared tempering to the boiled potatoes along with the oil. Add finely chopped coriander leaves, lemon juice and mix well with a spoon. Let it cool for few minutes.

Shaping & Frying Batata Vada

Once they are warm enough to touch, mix well with your hands and make small balls. You should be able to make around 8-10 balls for this quantity. Keep aside.

Heat oil for deep frying. Once the oil is hot but smoking, flatten the potato balls slightly and dip in the prepared batter and coat evenly. Deep fry 2-3 vadas at a time in medium flame, until it is golden from both sides.

How To Prepare Vada Pav With This Vada?

Batata vada is usually used for making vada pao. Apart from serving as tea time snacl you can vada pao as explained below.

Take a pav bun and slit it from one, keeping one end intact. Toast it in some butter or you can use it plain too. Spread some green chutney and sprinkle some dry garlic chutney.

Stuff a freshly fried batata vada and close the bread. Serve immediately.

Serving Suggestions

You can serve batata vada as snack or use to make vada pav as done in Mumbai. To make vada pav you should sandwich this potato vada between laadi pav and serve with green chilies.

While serving as snack you can serve this batata vada with green chutney along with masala chai.

There are many variations with this recipe. I have shared the recipe for Mumbai style batata vada here. Some spices and their proportions vary from place to place while making this vada.

Tips For Making Best Batata Vada

Potatoes- Use potatoes that are fresh and mash up well. While you have to boil and mash the potatoes well, do not make them very pasty though.

Rice flour- Adding a little bit of rice flour while making chickpea flour batter helps in making crispy vada. You can also add corn flour.

Gluten free – To ease digestion you can some carom seeds in the batter. Asafoetida is added for the same reason. To make gluten free batata vada skip asafoetida and add carom seeds.

Consistency of batter– Make a thick batter that will coat the shaped potatoes well in this recipe. If the batter is runny the potato mixture will break in hot oil.

Spice Powders– Spice powders like red chilli powder, turmeric powder are added for flavor and taste. You can vary the quantities of spice powders as per preference. Turmeric powder also lends color to this vada. Instead of red chilli powder you can add paprika or ground peppercorns.

While making for kids you can serve with sweet chutney or mildly spiced green chutney also.

The batata vada recipe can be doubled, tripled and halved.

More Potato Snacks Recipes

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Pav bhaji

Pani puri

Aloo tikki

Aloo tikki chole

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