BM# 68-Cooking Carnival: Day 18
Theme of Week 4: Bread based Street Foods
Dish: Dabeli
It is a very tasty sandwich with amazing flavors and textures. I’m not sure why I didn’t try it sooner, it’s much easier and quicker to make than vada pav or other more elaborate street food. It is actually another version of vada pav that doesn’t require the potato part to be fried.
In this sandwich, the sweet and spicy potato mixture is stuffed between 2 pav buns that is generally smeared with green chutney or spicy garlic chutney and then topped with crunchy roasted peanuts and fresh pomegranate arils (or black grapes). I skipped making the garlic chutney and used green chutney instead.
Like I said before this sandwich has so many interesting flavors going on. Sweet, spicy and tangy — all at the same time. I’m sure I’ll be making this sandwich quite often now.
Recipe from Tarla Dalal’s Site:
Dabeli
Ingredients
For Dabeli Masala:
- 1 Red Chili Dry
- 1 tsp Coriander seeds
- ½ Cinnamon " stick
- 2 Cloves
- ¼ tsp Cumin seeds
For the Potato Filling:
- 2 Potatoes Medium , boiled, peeled and mashed
- 1 Onion Small , finely chopped
- ½ tsp Cumin seeds
- Pinch Asafoetida of
- 2 tsps Masala Dabeli
- 2 tbsps Tamarind Chutney Sweet (link below)
- To taste Salt
For Dabeli:
- 6 ~ 8 Pav Burger Buns /
- Butter As needed , for cooking
- ¼ cup Peanuts Roasted
- ¼ cup Cilantro , finely chopped
- ¼ cup Sev Fine
- ¼ cup Pomegranate seeds
- Green Chutney As needed
- Tamarind Chutney As needed Sweet
Instructions
Make Dabeli Masala:
- Dry roast the dabeli masala ingredients in a pan until fragrant. Grind to a fine powder in a spice grinder or blender. Use as needed.
Make the Potato Filling:
- Heat oil in a pan, add the cumin seeds and once the seeds start to splutter, add asafoetida, 2tsp ground dabeli masala, mashed potato, salt and some water. Mix well and cook for 4~5 minutes.
- Take off the heat and add the sweet tamarind chutney and mix well. Set aside.
Make Dabeli Sandwich:
- Slice the buns in half horizontally and cook the buns with butter until nicely toasted.
- Smear green chutney on both sides liberally. Place some of the potato filling on the bottom half of the bun.
- Top with the onion, peanuts, cilantro, sev, pomegranate, green chutney and sweet tamarind chutney.
- Sandwich it with the top half of the sandwich bread and Serve!!
Notes
vaishalisabnani
Tempting dabeli Pavani. Dabeli has many versions here but yours looks very well made and perfect for snacking anytime.
Gayathri Kumar
Even I made dabeli for this BM and totally loved it. Your presentation is so nice. Looks so tempting..
Nalini
This is one tempting Dabeli,we love it to the core.Amazing presentation and clicks
harini-jaya
Very tempting pictures.. Love it
srividhya
same pinch.. I posted dabeli too. you clicks man amazing.. I wanted to grab one right away
Priya
Am totally lost and my mouth is watering here. Dabeli is my all time favourite and u r killing me with your gorgeous clicks.
Kalyani
perfect tea time snack (or actually any time snack :D) – i have made this once or twice but never got to clicking them ! these look perfect
usha
This has so many components but am sure it is not that bad if we plan it properly. I loved all the moody photos for street food.
Smruti Shah
Dabeli looks so pretty Pavani! A very famous delicacy from the street presented in such a beautiful way!
Sowmya
I haven’t seen such a pretty looking dabeli ever. So tempting
Archana
Delicious dabeli.
Srivalli
I love Dabeli especially the for the promos that are added..:)..such lovely pictures..
sapana
I loved Dabeli when I made it a few years back. Would love to try it now right from the v screen.
Suma Gandlur
This has been on my list ‘to do’ too from a long time. That dabeli sandwich is mouthwatering.