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Today’s dish is one of my all time favorite street food.   This Hyderabadi street food  is a crunchy, sweet and little spicy snack found at almost all the street side chaat bandars. Potato mixture is applied over bread and then dipped in cornflour batter then deep fried till crisp. If you do not wish to deep fry , the toast can be even pan fried with very little oil. This is a great evening snack or a perfect snack for any kind of  parties.  Aloo bread toast goes to week 3 day 2 of Blogging Marathon 108 under the theme " Street Food Special ". Ingredients: Bread slices 4 Chopped onion 1/4 cup Chopped cilantro 3 spoons Green chutney Chili garlic chutney  Nylon sev 1/4 cup Oil for deep frying For potato mixture : Large potato 1 Garam masala 1 /2 tsp Chili powder 1/2 tsp Salt to taste  Turmeric powder 1/4 tsp For the crust: Maida / All purpose flour 2 tbsp Corn flour 1 tbsp Salt to taste Turmeric powder 1/2 tsp Water 3/4 cup Preparation: Boil potato and peel t...

Dahi puri is yet another popular street food found in Indian sub continent. It is a form of chaat just like pani puri or samosa chaat. Dahi puri is prepared with mini puris or golgappa  which are used for pani puri and stuffed with boiled potatoes, chopped onions,chopped  coriander, chilled yogurt , chutneys and finally garnished with thin nylon sev. This is a very simple yet delicious chaat dish which can be made very easily at home.  This recipe goes to week 3, day 1 of Blogging Marathon 108 under the theme " Street Food Special". Ingredients: Puri 10 Boiled and mashed potato 1/2 cup Chopped onion 1/2 cup Chopped cilantro 2 tbsp Green chutney  Sweet chutney  Chaat masala 1 tbsp Chilled Yogurt / curd 1 cup Thin sev 1/2 cup Sugar 1 tsp Preparation: Add sugar to yogurt and beat well to become smooth. Gently  make a hole at the center of the puri's and place them on a serving plate. Stuff little boiled potato inside the puri add little yogurt on top of it. No...

Veg chop or Vegetable chop also known as Bhejetebil Chop is a popular street food from Kolkata, West Bengal. Main ingredient being beetroot, potato and carrots are also added to a nice binding to the chops.  Freshly ground masala give nice aroma and kick to the dish. Addition of crushed peanuts also give nice taste and nutty taste to the chops. The vegetables can be either cooked and mashed or the carrots and beets can be grated raw and added to mashed potatoes. Either ways they taste awesome. These chops can be made ahead of time and freeze  them for later use. Once ready to fry them just thaw them in microwave or leave them at room temperature for 30 mins and then fry them. Believe me your family would love these chops. Finally we have come to the last day of Mega Marathon 104..... I cant believe its almost a month we started this theme " Sweets and Snacks". It was so much fun learning and cooking new dishes, specially the last week. Seeing and reading so many variation to ...

Papdi chaat or  papri chaat is a popular and traditional fast food or street food from Indian subcontinent. Papri chaat is prepared using crisp fried wafers known as papri or papdi along with boiled chick peas, boiled or fried potatoes, yogurt / curd, sweet and green chutney, chopped onion tomato and finally garnished with sev and chaat masala. Papdi is prepared with plain flour dough adding  cumin seeds and  oil to give it nice crunch. Then they are rolled out thin cut in circles and deep fried in oil until nice and crisp. Remember Suhaali which I prepared last week from same state snacks theme, I have used those Suhali's as papdi / papri here. This delicious and lip smacking dish goes to day 15 of Mega Marathon theme " Sweets and Snacks".   Ingredients: Papdi 15 Potato 1 large Chick peas soaked and cooked 1 cup Chopped onion 1/2 cup Chopped tomato 1/2 cup Chopped cilantro 1/4 cup Thin Sev 1/2 cup Pomegranate seeds 1/2 cup Chaat masala 1 tbsp Curd 1/2 cup Green...

Today we are starting with 2nd week of Mega Marathon. Theme for this week is " Same state with different snacks". So I choose Rajasthan, a state in northern India. Rajasthan means " Land of Kings". According to Wiki , Rajputs, Meenas, Rajpurohits and many other tribes made a great contribution in building the state of Rajasthan. Modern Rajasthan includes most of the Rajputana,  which comprises princely states, two chief ships and British district of Ajmer-Merwara. Jaisalmer, Matrwar, Bikaner, Mewar, Alwar, Dhundhar were some of the main Rajput princely states.  Rajasthan is culturally rich and has artistic and cultural traditions that reflects the ancient Indian way of life.There is rich and varied folk culture from villages which are often depicted as a symbol of the state. Rajasthan cooking was influenced by both war like lifestyles of its inhabitants and availability of the ingredients in this arid region. Most of Rajasthan state is Sandy and dry. The scarcity of...

Jhal Muri is a popular street food in Kolkata and all over India.  Jhal means spices and muri means puffed rice. Food Vendors can be found making this spicy snack near bus stands, railways stations, on the roads , in a local train and many more places. This is one quick snack where kids can also make it. Add spices according to  your taste and add some chopped onion, tomato, cucumber, chili and cilantro. Add puffed rice only when you are ready to serve or else the dish become soft and doesn't taste good. This popular recipe goes to the 3rd day of Blogging marathon 83 under the theme " Home made street food". Here goes the recipe......... Ingredients: Puffed rice  2 cups Chopped onions 4 spoons Chopped tomato 3 spoons Chopped cilantro 2 spoons Chopped cucumber 3 spoons Chopped green chili  Lime juice 2 spoons Chili powder 1/4 spoon Black salt 1/4 spoon Salt to taste Chaat masala 1/2 spoon Fried bengal gram 2 spoons Thin Sev 4 spoons Roasted peanuts  1/4 cup Musta...

Punukulu or punugulu is a common street food in the coastal  regions of Andhra Pradesh. These are crispy deep fried snack made of udad dal and rice batter ( dosa batter). These can be served with coconut chutney or tomato chutney. Adding chopped onions, chili and cilantro are optional but they add a great taste tot he snack. This recipe goes to day 2 of Blogging Marathon 83 under the theme " Home made street food". Here goes the recipe.... Ingredients: Dosa Batter 2 cups Sooji / semolina  1/4 cup Chopped onion 1/4 cup Chopped cilantro 1/4 cup Chopped green chili 2 spoons Salt to taste Oil for deep frying Preparation: In a  mixing bowl add dosa batter. sooji, chopped onion, green chili, cilantro and salt to taste. Mix everything  well and set aside for 10 minutes. Heat oil in deep frying pan. Take little quantity with spoon and drop it in hot oil. Fry till nice and crisp. Remove and place them on paper towel. Serve hot with and chutney. Check to see what my fellow blo...

Street food are always tasty and delicious. Vankaya bajji is a tasty snack made fresh on a cart and sold while they are hot. Thse bajji's are very popular in Andhra Pradesh. These bajji are made fresh along with onon bajji, chili bajji and many more. Today we are starting with 2nd week of Blogging Marathon 82. For day 1, am here with a yummy street food Vankaya Bajji under the theme " Make Street food at home". Here goes the recipe..... Ingredients: Brinjal / Vankaya  3 Gram flour / Besan 1 cup Rice flour 2 spoons Chili powder 1/2 spoon Salt to taste Chaat masala ( optional) Oil for deep frying Preparation: Cut brinjal into long thin slices like potato chips. Add them to  salt water as soon as you cut them. In a mixing bowl add gram flour, rice flour, salt and chili powder. Mix everything well, add water to make a smooth paste( not too thin) Heat oil in deep frying pan. Once the oil is hot,  dip the slices in batter and drop them in hot oil. Add few slices at a time. Fry...

Jalebi has been mine and my mom's all time favorite sweet. In most parts of the India fried jalebi is dipped in sugar syrup. In very few places it is dipped in Jaggery syrup. Unlike sugar, jaggery is rich in minerals specially iron. Me along with  my mom and sisters used to visit my Grandma's place during summer vacation. Grandma or my mom used to get this sweet from a roadside sweet shops, which are very popular  for sweets and snacks specially Kaaja and Jaggery Jalebi.  Jaggery / Bellam Jalebi goes tot he 2nd day of BM 76 under the theme Mother's Day sweets. Ingredients: All purpose flour  1 cup Rice flour 3 spoons Bicarbonate soda 1/4 spoon Jaggery 3/4 cup Sugar 1/4 cup Oil for deep frying Preparation: Add water to all purpose flour and a smooth batter.  Batter  should not be too watery or too thick. Rest aside for 24 hours. Now add rice flour and bi carbonate soda to the dough add very little water to make a smooth batter. Again batter should not be too...

Tawa Pulao is another quick rice dish which is very popular  Mumbai street food. Tawa means flat pan used in Indian cooking for making chapati, dosa, roasting or shallow frying. Street vendors in Mumbai use this huge tawa to make Pav bhaji, vada pav, masala pav and tawa pulao. Tawa pulao  is a quick dish made with left over rice,  streamed veggies  and Pav bhaji Masala. This spicy and delicious pulao can be served with any kind of raita or plain yogurt. Again the spiciness depends on your personal taste, add less masala if you do not like much.  Tawa pulao goes to week 2 and day 3 of BM 65 under the theme " Rice dishes". Here goes the recipe.... Ingredients: Cooked rice 2 cups Boiled potato 2 medium Green chili 2 chopped Green peas  1/4 cup Chopped capsicum 1/4 cup Chopped cilantro 1/2 cups Sliced onions 1/4 cup Ginger garlic paste 1 spoon Tomatoes chopped 1/2 cup Pav Bhaji masala 2 spoon Salt  to taste Butter 4 spoons Preparation: In a large pan or ta...

Mexican is one of my family favorite cuisine. The basic native foods are beans, corn and chili peppers. Other than these Avocado's, squashes  and tomatoes are also the native ingredients. Breakfast is generally heartier than in other countries and can consist of leftover meat in broth, tacos, enchiladas or meat with eggs. This is usually served with beans, white bread or tortillas and coffee or juice.  One of the best known street foods of Mexico is the taco, whose origin is based on the Pre-Hispanic custom of picking up other foods with tortillas as utensils were not used. Tacos are not eaten as the main meal, they are generally eaten before midday or late in the evening.  Just as any other food stuff can be wrapped in a tortilla, in mexico it varies from rice to meat, vegetable, cheese or with plain chile peppers or fresh salsa.  You might have understood by now that today's post is about the Mexican food. My theme for the 3rd week of BM 53, is "Tortilla Based Dish...

Today for day 3, under Restaurant menu- pick a menu card, am choose to cook  one of the most delicious snack "Bread Cutlet" from Satya Asha Restaurant.   This is one of the simplest and healthy snack which my family liked, specially kids. Bread Cutlet can be served as  evening snack, party snack  as a starter. You can use any kind of bread like whole grain, wheat or white bread. I used white bread here and just added boiled potato for binding. You can even add grated carrots, boiled peas, onions or any other vegetable which  ever you like.  Serve hot with green chutney, hot sauce or just ketchup.  Here goes the recipe..... .                                          We need: Bread slices  4 Boiled potato 1 large Chopped cilantro 1/2 cup Chopped green chili 1spoon Salt to taste Chaat masala 1 1/2 spoon Lime juice  3 spoons Italian seasoned ...

 Made these yummy ,crisp and  hot Aloo tikki this weekend.  Perfect for any rainy day as evening snack or for small parties. Here goes the recipe...                                               We need: Potatoes 3 medium Green peas 1/4 cup Chat masala 1/2 spoon Cumin powder 1/4 spoon Salt to taste Chopped onion 2 spoons Chopped green chili 1 Chopped cilantro 3 spoons Lime juice 2spoons Corn flour 3spoons Bread crumbs  Oil for shallow frying Method: Boil potatoes and remove skin. Mash the potatoes and add chat masala, cumin powder, chopped onion, cilantro and chopped green chili. Add salt to taste and green peas.( Used frozen green peas) Also add corn flour, lime juice and salt to taste. Mix everything together and keep aside. Heat large skillet and add few drops of oil. Now make small patties with the potato mixture and dip each patti or tikki in bread ...

BM 36. Week 1. Day 2. Theme : Combo Dishes. Street food is one of my favorite food, let it be pani puri, pav bhaji, mirchi bajji or chole tikki. They have some special taste. Even after trying for 10 times at home  you won't get the same  taste of street food. These street foods taste even more delicious during monsoon and winters.  Today we had almost 7 to 8 inches of snow in New Jersey. School district declared holiday and even dear hubby was working from home. As everyone was home had plenty of time to something hot and spicy snack. So i came up with Tikki chole and we all loved it. My son loved to have just the tikki's with ketchup and daughter had just the chana from chole and few pieces of tikki. Me and dear hubby loved having this yummy combo dish with some tea.    Tikki Chole is one of the popular street food in North India. Tikki means patties or cutlets made with veggies or meat. Today I made these patties with boiled potato a nd some spices. These tik...