Crunchy, spicy and absolutely delicious Raw Mango Salad is a great appetizer or an afternoon snack. Today I have an Indian street food that is spicy, crunchy and very addictive raw Mango Chaat. With summer and mango season in full swing in India, this salad would be a great treat as a snack. It is…
A delicious Indo-Chinese fusion dish, this Chinese Bhel is spicy, sweet and absolutely addictive. For the final day of this week’s blogging marathon, I have an absolutely delicious Indo-Chinese fusion chaat dish. This Chinese bhel is colorful, slightly sweet, spicy and very addictive. It’s one of the most popular fusion street food in Mumbai. I have…
Spicy, tangy and absolutely delicious Potato Chaat, a very popular Mumbai street food.
Blogging Marathon# 47: Week 1/ Day 1 Theme: North Indian Starters Dish: Chole-Aloo Tikki Chaat We are starting our last marathon for this year and my theme for this week is ‘North Indian Starters’. Starters/ Appetizers are not really my forte because most of Indian starters are deep fried and I try to stay away from deep frying. When I saw this theme, I knew this will give me a chance to research on North Indian starters that I can add to my repertoire. Valli hinted that we can made Chaats under this theme, so for the first day I…
Ragda Pattice is a very popular Chaat item from Mumbai. This was the first dish I made for Maharashtra, but changed it to Vada Pav and kept this for ‘Cooking from Cookbook Challenge’ instead. I’ve never made ragda pattice at home until I saw this recipe being made on a Telugu cooking show and made it twice since then. I remember enjoying this snack on the road side stalls in Hyderabad, one particular one close to my aunt’s house was our favorite. Prepping the chutneys (green & sweet) is the most time taking for making chaats and if you have…
Vada Pav is a very popular Mumbai street food — aloo bonda served as a burger between buns. Those bondas sandwiched between buns slathered with spicy, sweet chutneys transform them into very addictive snack.
This sweet and tangy chutney is a must with any chaat. Balance is the key for this chutney, so adjust the quantities according to your personal taste preference. Recipe adapted from Tarla Dalal’s site:
Green Chutney is the quintessential ingredient for all the chaats. It is very simple to make with few ingredients but balance is the name of the game when making this dish. A little too much of any ingredient will change the taste. So adjust the ingredients as per your personal preference.
Blogging Marathon# 39 – Indian States: Day 6 State: Delhi Dish: (Un)fried Aloo Chaat Delhi style Delhi is the Capital of India and is situated in Northern part of India. It is a Union territory and second largest populous city in the world. I have visited Delhi 3~4 times as a kid, but don’t remember what we ate there. One of my aunts used to live in Delhi and we used to have more homemade meals and never really explored the street food in Delhi. Cuisine: Delhi is a city with a very vast history. It has been continuously inhabited…