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'''Vada pav''' is a [[vegetarian]] fast food dish native to the state of [[Maharashtra]].The dish consists of a deep fried potato dumpling placed inside a bread bun (''pav'') sliced almost in half through the middle. It is generally accompanied with one or more chutneys and a green chilli pepper.
{{Short description|Indian fast food item}}


== Etymology ==
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''Batata vada'' in Marathi literally means "potato fritter".''Pav'' is a derivative of the Portuguese word ''pão'', which means bread.
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| image            = Vada Pav-Indian street food.JPG
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| image_alt        = A plate of vada pav with seasoning of red chilli powder and a green chilli.
| caption          = A plate of vada pav with seasoning of red chilli powder and a green chilli.
| alternate_name  =  vada pao, wada pav, wada pao, pao vada, pav vada, pao wada, pav wada, batata wada pav
| type            = [[Snack]]
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| country          = [[India]]
| region          = [[Mumbai]], [[Maharastra]]
| city            =
| national_cuisine =
| creator          = Ashok Vaidya and Sudhakar Mhatre
| year            = 1966
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| main_ingredient  = Deep-fried fritter made of mashed potato and spices, bread bun
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== Preparation ==
'''Vada pav''', alternatively spelt '''wada pao''', {{pronunciation|Indian-vada-pav-pronunciation.ogg|listen|(|help=no}} is a [[vegetarian]] [[fast food]] dish native to the state of [[Maharashtra]]. The dish consists of a deep fried potato dumpling placed inside a bread bun (''pav'') sliced almost in half through the middle. It is generally accompanied with one or more [[chutney]]s and a green [[chili pepper]].<ref name=fpj36>{{cite news|title=Famous Vada Pav places in Mumbai|url=http://www.freepressjournal.in/famous-vada-pav-places-in-mumbai/|access-date=10 August 2015|newspaper=[[The Free Press Journal]]|date=30 July 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150817100436/http://www.freepressjournal.in/famous-vada-pav-places-in-mumbai/|archive-date=17 August 2015}}</ref> Although it originated as an affordable street food in [[Mumbai]], it is now served in food stalls and restaurants across [[India]]. It is also called '''Bombay burger'''<ref>{{cite web|last1=Bhattacharya|first1=Suryatapa|title=The world's best fast food|url=https://www.thenational.ae/lifestyle/the-world-s-best-fast-food-1.521775|website=The National|access-date=27 September 2017|date=12 January 2010}}</ref> in keeping with its origins and its resemblance in physical form to a [[wikt:burger#Noun|burger]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Sankari |first1=Rathina |title=Meet Mumbai's Iconic Veggie Burger |url=https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/11/04/500539626/meet-mumbais-iconic-veggie-burger |access-date=5 November 2020 |work=[[NPR]] |date=November 4, 2016 |language=en}}</ref>
Boiled potato is mashed and mixed with chopped green chilli and garlic, mustard seeds, and spices (usually asafoetida and turmeric). The mass is then shaped into a ball, dipped into gram flour batter and deep fried. The resultant fritter is served by placing inside a bread bun, accompanied with one or more chutneys and fried green chilli.
[[File:Mumbai Vada Pav.jpg|thumb|preparation]]


[[Category:Breads]]
The most famous snack in [[Mumbai]], vada pav is claimed to be a part of the culture of [[Mumbaikar|Mumbaikars]].<ref>{{cite web|last1=Sarma|first1=Ramya|title=In Search of Mumbai Vada Pav|url=http://www.thehindu.com/features/magazine/article3657300.ece|work=The Hindu|access-date=27 January 2015}}</ref><ref name="Graves"/>
[[Category:Fast food]]
 
[[Category:Indian food]]
==Etymology==
[[Category:Sandwiches]]
''[[Batata vada]]'' in [[Marathi language|Marathi]] literally means "potato fritter". It is a combination of the word for "potato" (''batata'') and ''[[vada (food)|vada]]'', a type of fried savoury snack. ''Pav'' is a derivative of the [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]] word ''pão'', which means bread.
[[Category:Snack foods]]
 
==History==
The most common theory of the vada pav's origin is that it was invented in the erstwhile mill-heartland of Central [[Mumbai]].
Ashok Vaidya of [[Dadar]] is often credited with starting the first vada pav stall outside [[Dadar railway station]] in 1966.<ref name="vaidya">{{cite news |last1=Mahadevan |first1=Asha |title=Nearly 50 years since its invention, the story of the vada pav hits the big screen at Jio MAMI |url=https://www.firstpost.com/entertainment/nearly-50-years-since-its-invention-the-story-of-the-vada-pav-hits-the-big-screen-at-jio-mami-2487580.html |access-date=5 November 2020 |work=Firstpost |date=30 October 2015}}</ref><ref name="histoy-TOI">{{cite news |last1=Shankar |first1=Kartikeya |title=Vada Pav: History of the Popular Mumbai Snack |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/food-news/vada-pav-history-of-the-popular-mumbai-snack/articleshow/76973714.cms |access-date=5 November 2020 |work=The Times of India |date=Jul 15, 2020 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="scott thesis"/>{{rp|34}} Some sources credit Sudhakar Mhatre who started his business around the same time.<ref name="World Vadapav Day loksatta">{{cite news |last=Ghangale |first=Swapnil |title=World Vadapav Day: जन्मापासून लंडनपर्यंत मजल मारण्यापर्यंतची वडापावची कहाणी |url=https://www.loksatta.com/do-you-know-news/world-vada-pav-day-journey-from-mumbai-popular-street-food-to-london-scsg-91-2253519/ |access-date=5 November 2020 |work=Loksatta |date=23 August 2020 |language=mr-IN}}</ref> One of the earliest kiosks selling vada pav is said to be ''Khidki Vada Pav'', located in [[Kalyan]]. It was started in the late 1960s by the Vaze family, who used to hand out vada pavs from a window (''Khidki'') of their house facing the road.<ref name="World Vadapav Day loksatta"/>
 
The [[carbohydrate]]-rich snack catered to the [[cotton mill]] workers of what was then known as [[Girangaon]]. This [[potato]] dumpling (''batata vada'') placed inside a [[Bread roll|''pav'']] was quick to make, cheap (~10-15 [[paisa]] in 1971<ref name="World Vadapav Day loksatta"/><ref name=NYT-best/>), and much convenient over the [[Bombay potato|batata bhaji]] and [[chapati]] combination, which couldn't be eaten in overcrowded local trains.<ref name="histoy-TOI"/><ref name="World Vadapav Day loksatta"/>
 
===Cultural importance===
Vada pav is intricately linked with the [[Shiv Sena]] political party. The [[Great Bombay textile strike|closing of textile mills]] in central Mumbai led to turmoil in the 1970s. Shiv Sena, the homegrown party formed during this transformative time, based itself as a party with Mill workers' interests.<ref name="jamboree">{{cite journal |last1=Solomon |first1=Harris Scott |title="THE TASTE NO CHEF CAN GIVE": Processing Street Food in Mumbai |journal=Cultural Anthropology |date=May 4, 2015 |volume=30 |issue=1 |pages=65–90 |doi=10.14506/ca30.1.05 |url=https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.14506/ca30.1.05 |access-date=5 November 2020 |language=en |issn=1548-1360}}</ref>
The party chief, [[Balasaheb Thackeray]] encouraged Marathi people in the 1960s to become entrepreneurs, i.e. start food stalls in ways similar to the South Indians setting up [[Udupi cuisine|Udupi restaurants]].<ref name="vaidya"/><ref name="histoy-TOI"/><ref>{{cite news |last1=Doctor |first1=Vikram |title=An attitude to serve: Why Marathi food lost out |url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/the-leisure-lounge/an-attitude-to-serve-why-marathi-food-lost-out/articleshow/3047664.cms |access-date=5 November 2020 |work=The Economic Times |date=May 17, 2008}}</ref> Shiv Sena attempted to physically and ideologically claim the streets through agitations as well as neighborhood-level events such as ''Vada pav sammelan (Vada pav jamboree)''.<ref name="scott thesis">{{cite thesis |last1=Solomon |first1=Harris Scott |title=Life-Sized: Food and the Pathologies of Plenty in Mumbai |chapter= Chapter 1. Fast Food Nationalism: Cleaning Mumbai’s streets with the vada pav |type=PhD |location=Providence, Rhode Island |date=May 2011 |institution=[[Brown University]] |doi=10.7301/Z0Q23XH9 |oclc=934517131 |chapter-url=https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:11264/ |access-date=5 November 2020 |language=en}}</ref>{{rp|28}}<ref name="jamboree"/> This theme has continued even in the recent years, e.g. the 2009 introduction of ''Shiv vada pav''.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Pawar |first1=Yogesh |title=Shiv Sena's vada pav strategy |url=https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/shiv-senas-vada-pav-strategy-396415 |access-date=5 November 2020 |work=NDTV.com |date=June 19, 2009}}</ref>
 
==Variations and commercialization==
There are over 20,000 stalls selling vada pav in Mumbai.<ref>{{cite news |title=वडापाव... बस्स..! |url=https://www.lokmat.com/manthan/story-about-vadapav-mumbai-a653/ |access-date=9 February 2022 |work=Lokmat |date=6 February 2022 |language=mr-IN}}</ref> Mumbai alone has many variations of the food based on the locality.<ref name=NYT-best/> Large fast food restaurant chains such as ''Kunjvihar Jumbo King'' in [[Mulund]] and [[Goli Vada Pav]] also primarily serve vada pav.<ref name=NYT-best>{{cite news |last1=Thirani |first1=Neha |title=Searching For the World's Best Vada Pav |url=https://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/05/searching-for-the-worlds-best-vada-pav/ |access-date=5 November 2020 |work=India Ink |publisher=[[The New York Times]] |date=5 October 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Narasimhan |first1=Anand |last2=Dogra |first2=Aparna Mohan |title=Goli Vada Pav story |publisher=IMD business school |work=The Financial Times |date=September 4, 2012 |url=https://www.imd.org/research-knowledge/articles/goli-vada-pav-story/ |access-date=5 November 2020 |language=en}}</ref> Outside of Mumbai, a variant of vada pav is ''pav vada'' which is famous in [[Nashik]].
 
Annually, August 23 is celebrated as ''World Vada Paav Day''.<ref>{{cite news |title=World Vada Pav Day 2020: Mumbai's 'fastest fast food' is eaten by many, remembered by a few |url=https://www.freepressjournal.in/mumbai/world-vada-pav-day-eaten-by-many-remembered-by-a-few |access-date=5 November 2020 |work=Free Press Journal |date=23 August 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
 
==Preparation==
A boiled potato is mashed and mixed with chopped green chilli and garlic, mustard seeds, and spices (usually [[asafoetida]] and [[turmeric]]). The mass is then shaped into a ball, dipped into [[gram flour]] batter and deep fried. The resultant fritter is served by placing inside a bread bun, accompanied with one or more [[chutney]]s and fried green chilli.<ref name="Graves">{{cite web|last1=Graves|first1=Helen|title=Vada pav sandwich recipe|url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/oct/03/vada-pav-sandwich-recipe-potato-chutney|website=The Guardian|publisher=Guardian News and Media Limited|access-date=27 January 2015}}</ref>
 
==Gallery==
{{Gallery
|title= |align= |footer= |style= |state = |height= |width= |captionstyle=
| File:Mumbai Vada Pav.jpg | alt1= | Pictoral description of the ingredients and recipe of vada pav.
| File:Vada Pav.jpg | alt2= | One batata (potato) vada, two vada pavs, raw green chillies, and seasoning of red garlic chutney.
| File:VadaPaav.JPG | alt3= |Vada pav served with a side of green chilli pepper, red peanut and [[garlic chutney]], and green chutney.
| File:Reliance Market, Mysore.jpg | alt4= | Vada Pavu (local variant of spelling) and a cup of tea in Mysore.
}}
{{commons category|Vada Pav}}
 
==See also==
{{portal|Food}}
{{Wiktionary}}
 
* [[Aloo tikki]]
* [[Chinese bhel]]
* [[List of sandwiches]]
* [[Veggie burger]]
* [[Misal pav]]
* [[Pav bhaji]]
 
==References==
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[[Category:Maharashtrian cuisine]]
[[Category:Street food in India]]
[[Category:Indian fast food]]
[[Category:Vegetarian sandwiches]]
[[Category:Vegetarian dishes of India]]
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