DESCRIPTION:
Papdi chaat or papri chaat, paapri chaat is a popular traditional fast food and street food from the Indian subcontinent, notably in North India, Bangladesh and Pakistan. Many various additional dishes throughout India are also referred to as papri chaat. Some restaurants in the United States serve the traditional version of the dish.
Papri chaat is traditionally prepared using crisp fried dough wafers known as papri, along with boiled chick peas, boiled potatoes, yogurt and tamarind chutney and topped with chaat masala and sev. The papri are typically prepared with refined white flour and ghee or oil. Mint, cilantro and spices may also be used. The dish has sweet, sour, tangy and spicy flavors and a creamy and crunchy texture.
PREPERATION:
Preperation time: 15 mins
Cooking time: 15 mins
INGREDIENTS:
-15 papdi / puri
-1 medium to large potato boiled or
steamed & chopped
-½ cup moong sprouts or kabuli chana
-½ cup thick fresh curd/ dahi / yogurt …
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Malpua is a pancake served as a dessert or a snack, popular in India and Bangladesh. It is a very popular dish of Odisha and is also served to Lord Jagannath of Puri in his Sakala Dhupa (morning food served to the lord). Apart from other dishes like Pheni, Rabidi, Kheera sara and other cheese or chhena based items malpua is one of the most popular buyouts in the streets of Puri in Odisha. Malpuas are also prepared in Odia homes during Raja sankranti.
HISTORY:
Barley was the most prolific grain eaten by the arya of the Vedic period. One preparation was a sweet cake called apūpa, where barley flour was either fried in ghee or boiled in water, and then dipped in honey. Malpua preserves both the name and the essentials of this preparation.
PREPERATION:
Preperation time: 25 mins
Cooking time: 25 mins
INGREDIENTS:
-1 ¼ cup maida / plain flour
-2 green cardamoms
-1 tsp fennel/ saunf crushed
-½ cup milk
-¼ cup water + more water if needed
-Ghee or oil…
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A samosa, samoosa, sambusa, or samboksa is a fried or baked dish with a savoury filling, such as spiced potatoes, onions, peas, lentils, macaroni, noodles, cheese, minced lamb or minced beef. Pine nuts can also be added. Its size and consistency may vary, but typically it is distinctly triangular or tetrahedral in shape. Indian samosas are usually vegetarian, and often accompanied by a mint chutney. Samosas are a popular entrée, appetizer or snack in the local cuisines of the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, Central Asia, Southwest Asia, the Arabian Peninsula, the Mediterranean, the Horn of Africa, North Africa and South Africa. Due to cultural diffusion and emigration from these areas, samosas in today's world are also prepared in other regions.
PREPERATION:
Preperation time: 15 mins
Cooking time: 25 mins
INGREDIENTS:
FOR THE DOUGH
-2 cups maida / plain flour
-¼ cup oil
-¼ cup + 2 tbsp water
-1 tsp ajwain / carom seeds
-¾ tsp salt
FOR THE…
DESCRIPTION:
Namak para / namakpare / nimki / nimkin / namkin is a crunchy savoury snack eaten in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.
Namak para is ribbon-like strips of pastry delicately seasoned with ajwain, cumin seeds, carom seeds, and caraway seeds and deep fried in pure ghee (clarified butter). It requires approximately 10 minutes to prepare and 20 minutes to cook.
The name derives from namak ("salt"), the main seasoning for the pastry, other ingredients include atta flour (whole wheat), maida flour (refined) or semolina and baking powder and baking soda.
PREPERATION:
Preperation time: 10 mins
Cooking time: 20 mins
INGREDIENTS:
-1 ½ cups maida / all purpose flour
-1 ¼ tbsp oil
-⅛ tsp hing/ asafoetida
-Pinch of soda
-¾ to 1 tsp salt
-1 ½ tsp ajwain /carom seeds
-½ to ¾ tsp pepper crushed
-Oil for frying
STEPS:
1. Add flour, salt, ajwain, pepper, hing,
oil to a mixing bowl and mix well.
2. Add water slowly as needed and mix
well.
3. Make a…
DESCRIPTION:
Sabudana vada, also called 'sago vada', is a traditional deep fried snack from Maharashtra, India. It is often served with spicy green chutney and along with hot chai and is best eaten fresh. In other parts of the country, Sabudana vada are the best option to have when fasting. Therefore, this filling and nutritious snack is served usually during religious festivals and during fast/vrat/upvaas especially in Navratri vrats. Like all vadas, these are best eaten fresh. Sabudana vadas are crunchy and "melt in the mouth."
During the monsoon season, it is popular to eat bhajias/pakoras (fried snack) with a cup of adrak chai (ginger tea). One such monsoon special crispy fried preparation is sabudana vada. Although it is deep fried, it is sumptuous and light. It is also eaten on days of fasting in Maharashtra for e.g., Chaturthi etc.
PREPERATION
Preperation time: 3 hrs
Cooking time: 25 mins
INGREDIENTS:
-½ cup sabudana
-2 medium potatoes cubed
-¼ cup peanuts …
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Pakora, also called pakoda, pakodi, or ponako, is a fried snack (fritter). It is found across the Indian subcontinent, especially in India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Pakistan. Pakoras are usually served as a snack or appetiser. In Great Britain, pakoras are popular as a fast food snack, available in Indian and Pakistani restaurants. They are also often served with chai to guests arriving to attend Indian wedding ceremonies, and are usually complemented with tamarind chutney, brown sauce, or ketchup.
PREPERATION
Preperation time: 15 mins
Cooking time: 15 mins
INGREDIENTS:
-1 medium carrot cup julienned
-¼ cup capsicum julienned
-1 cup shredded cabbage
-1 medium onion thinly sliced
-5 to 6 french beans( slit and cut into 2
cm pieces )
-½ cup besan
-¼ cup rice flour
-salt as needed
-¼ to ½ tsp ajwain / carom seeds
-2 to 3 green chilies chopped
-handful of pudina or mint leaves
-1 tsp ginger garlic paste
-¼ to ½ tsp garam masala powder
-oil for…
DESCRIPTION:
Aloo tikki is a North Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi snack made out of boiled potatoes, onions and various curry spices. "Aloo" means potato, and the word "tikki" means a small cutlet or croquette in Hindi, Marathi, and Tamil. It is served hot and warm along with a side of saunth, tamarind and coriander-mint sauce, and sometimes yogurt or chick peas. It is a vegetarian alternative, and an Indian equivalent of the hamburger. It is sometimes referred to some as a "potato burger".
PREPERATION
Preperation time: 15 mins
Cooking time: 20 mins
INGREDIENTS:
-4 medium sized potatoes
-1 tsp ginger paste
-½ to ¾ tsp garam masala
-½ tsp chaat masala
-½ to ¾ tsp red chili powder
-1 tbsp ghee
-Handful of coriander leaves finely
chopped
-1 green chili chopped
-2 tbsps corn flour
-3 to 4 tbsps bread crumbs
-Salt as needed
-2 to 3 tbsps chopped cashews
-Oil for frying
STEPS:
1. Boil the potatoes in a pressure cooker. Once boiled, let them cool. Now…
Chikki is a traditional Indian sweet generally made from groundnuts and jaggery. There are several different varieties of chikki in addition to the most common groundnut chikki. Each variety of chikki is named depending upon the ingredients used, which include puffed or roasted Bengal gram, sesame, puffed rice, beaten rice, or Khobara.
PREPERATION:
The preparation of chikkis is very simple and consists of first preparing the hot jaggery syrup with a minimum of water, adding nuts to the syrup to coat them and then transferring the nuts to a wooden mould, then rolling them to a thickness of about 6–8 mm using a wooden roller/and we also place in to the any steel plate for cooling, cutting into slabs and packing. In homes, smaller quantities are hand rolled with wooden rollers.
Some chikkis are made using a combination of these ingredients. Special chikkis are made out of cashews, almonds, and pistachios. Though jaggery is the usual sweetener material, sugar is used as the base…
Panipuri is a common street snack in several regions of the Indian subcontinent. In East India, it is misidentified with Phuchhka which is very different from Panipuri. The Puchhka differs greatly in terms of content and taste. Puchkas use a mixture of boiled gram and mashed potatoes as the filling and is tangy rather than sweetish while the water is sour and spicy. Puchkas are also slightly bigger in size and the puris are darker in colour. In North India, it is called Golgappa, In madhaya pradesh It is called Fulki, In Andhra Pradesh and Telangana its is called as Pani Puri While in Odisha it is known as GupChup . It consists of a round, hollow puri, fried crisp and filled with a mixture of flavored water, tamarind chutney, chili, chaat masala, potato, onion and chickpeas.
Panipuri has various names, depending on the region. In Haryana it is called Paani ke Patashe; in Madhya Pradesh Fulki; in Uttar Pradesh Golgappa, in West Bengal, Bangladesh and Bihar Nepal, Puchka; in parts of…
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