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Mumbai Vada Pav

When you have made soft fluffy homemade Ladi-pav, it’s compulsory to make vada pav or pav bhaji!

So here is authentic Mumbai special Vada pav recipe by my cousin Jitesh Jain.

Time

  • Preparation time – 30min
  • Cooking time – 30

Ingredients

This measurement will give you around 8-9 medium size vada.

  • 1/2 kg Potato
  • 3-4 Green chilli (grind instead of paste)
  • 1-2 pcs Whole garlic (peeled & Grind instead of paste)
  • 8-10 Curry leaves
  • Turmeric powder, salt as per taste, coriander powder(1/4tsp), black mustard seeds, coriander Leaves
  • 1/2 tsp Udad dal
  • Besan (Gram Flour) 300gms
  • Water for making paste
  • Oil for frying

Procedure

  • Boil potato and mash it with hands (shouldn’t be completely mash) keep it aside and let it cool
  • Grind green chilli and garlic together don’t make paste it should be coarsely
  • Take frying pan and keep on medium flame, put 2 tbsp oil to fry the ingredients
  • Put mustard seeds, fry it till it turns splutter, put curry leaves and fry for 3-5 seconds. Put chilli and garlic and fry for 10-15 seconds
  • Put coriander powder, turmeric powder and salt fry for 5-10 seconds and then turn off the gas.
  • Remove the pan from gas. Now mix the masala with mashed potatoes. Taste a little to confirm the spice and salt
  • Then mix chopped coriander leaves.and keep it aside
  • Besan Paste-take a bowl, pour besan into it and add water and salt to it to make a paste as given in video
  • Now apply some oil in your palm (by applying oil Masala will not stick into your hands) to make patty as shown in image below
  • Keep Frying Pan on gas and light the gas on high flame. Pour sufficient oil to fry the Vada
  • After a few minutes pour 1-2 drops of besan to ensure that oil is sufficiently hot to fry the vada. Now take patty and apply the paste and drop into the frying pan
  • Use frying spoon once the vada comes on top of the pan, turn it so that both sides can fry properly once the vada’s colour turns golden brown
  • Remove from the pan. Follow the same with all the patties

Enjoy hot and Yummy Homemade Vada pav. Do share your feedback and pictures when make it by adding hastag #forbabynmommy.

How Nutritional elements help in boosting immunity


Hi guys! Today I am writing this blog post as a mom finding solutions to build my child’s immunity.
With the changing weather, children catch cold & flu easily. This made me think about how I can improve my child’s immunity and make her strong.


Food plays a very important role in improving health as well as recovering from any diseases. There is a strong connection of food with nutritional elements and immunity system. We need to make sure that kids get proper balanced diet with all the nutritional elements needed for good immunity.


What are these elements and how do they affect our immune system?
Nutrients are broadly divided into the following categories:

  1. Protein (1gm protein provides 4 Kcal energy)
    Some of the constituents of protein can’t be made by body so it needs to be taken directly from food.
    Milk, cheese, meat, fish, poultry, pulses contain proteins.
  2. Fat (9 Kcal per 1gm of fat)
    Fats are an important source of energy for the body and kids need this to stay active.
  3. Carbohydrates: ( 4 Kcal per 1 carbohydrate)
    They are mostly starch and sugars of vegetables origin and a major component of cereal.
  4. Vitamin & Minerals
    Vitamins are needed for adequate functioning of body. Vitamins consists of mainly two groups: water soluble vitamin ( B1, B2 & Vitamin C) and fat-soluble vitamin ( A, D,E & K). Minerals such as zinc, selenium are also needed for proper immunity, cell development, etc.

Maintaining a Balance
Balanced diet is defined as one, which contains a variety of food in such quantities and proportion that can provide the needed energy, amino acids, vitamins, minerals, fats, carbohydrates and other important nutrients that are required to maintain good health and proper immunity.


I am happy that I found PediaSure with this balanced nutrition to help boost immunity in children. I make sure to give my little one home cooked food that includes cereals, vegetables, fruits, and milk products. Adding PediaSure in milk also helps in boosting her immunity.


We are vegetarians so we try to maintain the protein balance by adding pulses, chick peas, sprouts, and paneer to our daily meal. Apart from this, we add dry fruits with black pepper, chia seeds and fennel seeds in shakes that we drink early morning as part of our routine. You can also add banana in this shake as it gives a sweet taste to it. (If you need detailed recipe for this shake, please leave a comment, and I will share with pictures)


With proper food it’s equally important to teach kids to maintain proper hygiene such as washing hands properly for a minimum of 20 seconds before eating anything. Most importantly right now, we should take care that our kids don’t go out to play until things get okay.


I hope these small changes can help make them stronger. Do share your valuable views and tips that you follow at home to improve your children’s immunity.