Garima Johar Has been updated: June 24, 2024
Bollywood actress Neena Gupta is known for sharing homemade recipes, food snippets and her gastronomic adventures. Recently, she posted a video on her Instagram account on how to make Vada Pav with her special lefsun chutney.
Neena Gupta is the epitome of courage and humility. Though she’s been away from Indian cinema for decades, she’s never lost her feet on the ground. Whether it’s cooking for her daughter Masaba Gupta or sharing her home-cooking recipes in a feature-length video, this Bollywood actress never forgets her roots.
Fans love her originality, her unapologetic confidence, and of course, her approachable foodie side. The actress, who was recently seen in Panchayat season 3, is always sharing snippets of her gastronomic adventures wherever she goes. Recently, she posted an Instagram reel on how to make vada pav and pair it with spicy rasun chutney.
The Instagram video begins with an iron pan (kadhahi) being filled with hot oil, mustard seeds (rai), asafoetida (hing), curry leaves and lesun (garlic). Once the mixture fizzes, Neena Gupta’s family adds the green paste. Neena Gupta goes on to explain the ingredients in the paste – adrak (ginger), lesun (garlic) and hari mirch (green chillies).
After frying all the ingredients, add a little turmeric powder and mix it in. Next, add boiled potatoes to the pan as the main ingredient for making crispy vadas. Season with salt as per your taste and allow to cool.
Once the vada mixture has cooled, the masala is mashed to make a uniform consistency. Next, Neena Gupta makes a uniform batter with besan and water and applies it on the potato mixture. The next step is to take small portions of the potato mixture, coat them in the batter and deep fry in batches.
In the second half of a recent Instagram video, Neena Gupta shows how to make a spicy leshun chutney for vada pav. First, take some dried red chillies and remove the seeds. Then, fry the dried chillies in oil with chopped leshun and salt. Once fragrant, mash the contents in an electric mixer.
Finally, she spreads freshly made rasam chutney on the roasted pav buns and assembles the vada pav. She then places the crispy fried vadas in between the pavs. This completes Neena Gupta’s homemade vada pav recipe.
