Vada Pav

1. Mix gram flour, salt, turmeric powder, red chili powder and soda bicarbonate in a bowl. Add water required to whip it into a smooth and thick batter. Set it aside to settle down for at least 15 minutes.
2. In a pan, heat 1 tablespoon of oil on a medium flame and add turmeric powder, green chili-garlic paste, asafoetida, and stir for half a minute. Add boiled potatoes, and season with salt to taste. Mix the ingredients well. Drizzle lemon juice, coriander leaves and mix some more. While mixing, use the spoon to completely mash the potatoes.
3. Remove from heat and make 8 ballsusing your hands.
4. In a deep pan, pour enough oil to deep fry the potato balls. while the oil is heating, dip the potato balls in the gram batter, and put them in the pan to deep fry. Remove when all the 8 balls are golden and crispy.
5. Slit the pav bread from the center, spread dry garlic sauce, place one fried potato ball (vada) and press the pav close, gently.

Trivia:

• Gram flour is known by many names such as cici flour, chickpea four, and garbanzo bean flour.
• The plants of potato are usuallypollinated by bumblebees.
• Potato is a relative of tomato and tobacco.
• For as long as 18^th century, French used to think it was potato that caused leprosy.