Jodhpuri mirchi vada

Popular spicy snack of jodhpur - mirchi vada is very popular during monsoon. Long queue can be seen outside janta sweet home,choudhary's namkeen, surya's namkeen to wait for this super yum batter fried spicy pepper stuffed with potato filling.
Usually jodhpurites pair it with two pieces of white bread and eat it as sandwich or vada pav.dedicating this recipe to my city
So here I am with this mouth watering snack

Ingredients (makes 10 mirchi vada)

1 kg potatoes
One - fourth teaspoon asafoetida
Half teaspoon turmeric powder
One and half teaspoon red chilly powder
Two teaspoons garam masala
Two tablespoons dried mango powder
Salt acc to taste
10 bhavnagari green chillies
Half kg coarse gram flour
2 teaspoon baking soda
2 tablespoons oil ( for adding in batter)
Oil for frying (prefer groundnut oil / mustard oil for authentic taste)

Method

Peel potatoes. Cut each into four pieces. Fry these potato pieces in hot oil on medium flame till they slightly change colour. Cool and mash them with hands.add all the spices and salt mentioned above. Divide the potato mix into 10 parts.meanwhile slit green chilli without separating the two halves. Boil in salted water for 2 minutes. Drain the excess water by drying the chillies in colander.
Sieve gramflour and baking soda. Add oil,salt,turmeric, red chilli powder, salt.add water to make a thick batter.take one part of potato mix.coat it around the green chillies with filling some part of it inside the slit.coat the chilly with batter and deep fry in hot oil on medium flame. Serve piping hot mirchi vada with green chutney or tomato ketchup.