A vegetarian food blog with unique and interesting recipes from all over the world mainly focused on South Indian Cuisine.
Before getting into Navratri spree, let me share the quick recap of the Cooking Carnival Mega Marathon. As you all know, I picked one category – Starter/Appetizer/Chaat and posted 26 recipes falling under that same category. Being a savory lover, I can’t deny the fact that chaats are my weakness. I love chaats. Apparently I didn’t post many chaat recipes and this BM paved a way for me to post my favorite chaat recipes.
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Bhel Puri is a savory snack prepared with puffed rice with added vegetables, sev and the delicious sweet dates and tamarind chutney. I include green chutney too in my version, and this is the wet Bhel puri recipe. Even though the recipe originated in Bombay, it has spread its wings across the Indian Subcontinent, and every place has its own Bhel recipe. I have already posted the Kolkata version which is popularly known as Jhal muri and my own Tortilla Bhel Cups with moong dal. Now here comes the wet Bhel recipe.
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Papdi Chaat or Papri Chaat is one of my favorite chaat that can be assembled quickly once you have papdi ready. But the highlight is, there is lot of substitutes available for this papdis also. Papri or Papdi means wafers or crackers. Traditionally this chaat is prepared with the fried flour wafers, topped with boiled potatoes, onions, tomatoes, sev and of course with sweet and green chutney. You can add yogurts and make it Dahi Papdi Chaat and that’s what I am presenting today.
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This chaat/salad recipe is my all-time favorite and I prepare it regularly. Mine is the super simple version of Delhi fame Kulle chaat or fruit chaat. Traditionally, this spiced up fruit chaat is served in scooped out veggies like bell peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers. Instead of that, I mixed both my fruits and veggies together and tossed it with chaat masala and added some roasted peanuts for additional flavor. That’s it.
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Today I am posting yet another Gujarati recipe which is prepared with besan – Khandvi. If you notice, the ingredients of khandvi and Dhokla are pretty much same except that, we use yogurt for Khandvi. But the cooking process is completely different. We prepare the khandvi mix with besan and yogurt. This mixture is cooked down to a thick paste and it spread thinly across a flat surface and then rolled up to bite size pieces and then we temper it with spices.
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Sweet Potato Chaat or Shakarkandi ki Chaat is a super simple recipe and it is great alternative to the popular aloo chaat. If you want to avoid potatoes and looking for alternatives, here comes the sweet potato chaat. For aloo chaat, we usually roast or fry the potatoes and toss it with chaat masala and add in the toppings and serve with the dash of lime juice. It’s as simple as that. But for this sweet potato chaat, I boiled them first and cubed them, then tossed them with spices and pan seared until the caramelized crust is formed, making it a guilt free yummy chaat.
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Ragda Pattice or Ragada Pattice or Ragda patties – is a popular street food of Maharashtra and Gujarat. As I mentioned yesterday, it is one way of serving aloo tikki or recipe with aloo tikki as the base. Ragda – means the white peas curry or the vatana curry and pattice is the potato cutlet. Basically its aloo cutlet topped with the yummy ragda curry.
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