A vegetarian food blog with unique and interesting recipes from all over the world mainly focused on South Indian Cuisine.
Are you looking for easy ways to incorporate oats into your diet? Then this recipe is for you. Oats Dhokla is an instant dhokla recipe prepared with powdered oats and semolina in equal proportion. This simple steamed dhokla is a perfect guilt free snack anytime and a perfect party/potluck appetizer too.
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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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I am sharing a healthy vegan and zero oil chaat recipe for the last day of this Cooking Carnival Blogging Marathon. It’s the sukha bhel recipe with barley puffs. Sukha means dry and basically this is a dry bhel recipe which is an easy grab and go chaat and perfect for mid-day hunger pangs. This recipe calls for a dry bhel chutney that can be prepared well ahead and stocked up. Once we have the dry chutney ready, this bhel can be assembled in no time.
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I am presenting a simple chaat sandwich recipe for the penultimate day. This sandwich is popularly known by the name Bombay Sandwich –a sandwich with yummy green chutney spread and veggies and cheese of course. I took the easy route, instead of preparing spicy potato filling, I just went with boiled potato slices which in turn reduced the cooking time and made this recipe to fall under the category of “Under 30 minutes” recipe. :-)
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If its samosa yesterday, it has to be samosa chole today. :-) Like Tikkis, samosas can be served in multiple ways and one among them is the samosa chole and like sambar vadai, the fried samosa are soaked in the spicy chick pea gravy and topped with onions, cilantro and of course green chutney and sweet chutney. It is of my favorite way of having samosa. I always opt for samosa chole instead of plain samosa and this is very filling too. A plate of samosa chole with a lassi can be a meal on its own.
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Samosa – this fried or baked savory snack with spicy filling has become a universal chaat/appetizer these days. You can find them in the menu of other cuisines too and it is wide spread all over the world. In my kachori post I mentioned that, kachori is a cousin of Samosa. Yes, like kachori this savory snack is also filled with spicy filling and deep fried. Baked samosas are also getting popular, which I am reserving for this winter.
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Kachori or Kachauri or Kachodi or Katchuri is another popular recipe from North India. It is popular in Delhi and also in Rajasthan. Wiki states that Kachori is supposed to have originated in Uttar Pradesh or Rajasthan. I am not worried about its origin or who invented. All I wanted to say is big thanks to the person who invented this recipe. IMO, Kachori is a cousin of samosa. There are both sweet and savory Kachori. When I researched about this recipe, I was super surprised to find oodles of this kachori recipe. Finally thought of keeping it simple, so here I am presenting the savory matar kachori or green peas kachori.
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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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Flattened rice or beaten rice or Aval or Avalakki or Poha is one the widely used ingredient in Indian kitchen. Each and every house hold has their signature recipe with this ingredient. Today I am presenting the popular Chivda or Chiwda or the Bombay Mix. Chivda is sweet and spicy mixture prepared with flattened rice, along with peanuts, nuts, raisins, roasted daliya and spiced up using red chili powder or green chillies. This is a great snack and I love it any time. I have already posted the breakfast poha recipe and also the sweet poha recipe that we prepare during janmashtami. So here comes Chivda.
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Today I am presenting another popular street food recipe – Vada Pav. It’s our own Indian burger. In my opinion, Dabeli falls under sandwich and Vada Pav falls under burger. Basically it’s the Batata Vada served with dry garlic chutney in a Pav bun or any sweet buns. You can include other condiments/toppings and chutneys too, but I just went with the dry garlic chutney and green chutney.
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Batata Vada or potato fritters. is a popular fast food from the state of Maharashtra. The mashed potatoes are cooked with spicy green chili, garlic and ginger paste which is then made into round balls, then coated with the besan flour and then deep-fried. Fried potato fritters, how can it go wrong? (After two non-fried chaat recipes, I am back with fried ones) It is not only popular in Maharashtra; it’s pretty popular other states too with slight variations in the ingredients and under different names.
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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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Aloo Tikki – yet another popular chaat recipe from India, which is pretty popular in other neighboring countries also. Aloo means potato and tikki means cutlets. These are potato cutlets prepared with boiled and mashed potatoes along with other spices. I prepared this as a “No onion No Garlic” tikki. What I like about these tikkis is, they are perfect snack by themselves and they can be served in multiple ways and also they form the base for many other chaats too.
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Yesterday I posted Pani Puri and here comes the relative of Pani Puri – Dahi Sev Puri. Dahi means curd/yogurt in Hindi. As the name suggests, it’s the same deep fried mini puris but filled with yogurt based topping. This one is kiddo’s favorite. You can modify/adjust these toppings as per your preference and prepare varieties of Pani Puri.
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Here is my all-time favorite – Pani Puri recipe. When it comes to chaat, I cannot skip Pani Puri. It is one of the popular and one of the most common street foods of India. It is also called as golgappas. It is deep fried mini poori filled with lip smacking spicy and sweet flavored pani/water and also with additional filling. Each and every region in India has their own flavored pani puri and there are many varieties of these Pani Puri recipes. Here is my first one.
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Misal Pav is yet another popular recipe from Maharashtra. This is a very healthy recipe which is prepared by cooking sprouted moth dal and spiced up with my favorite goda masala (The signature masala recipe from the state of Maharashtra) and then topped with farsan or chivda mix. When I was researching for chaat/snack recipes, I found both Missal Pav and Pav Bhaji. As I already posted Pav Bhaji, here is the Misal Pav. This can be served for breakfast or as a snack or as complete meal also.
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Dabeli is a popular snack and a famous street food from the state of Gujarat. (Wiki mentions that the recipe originated in the Kutch region of Gujarat) It is the Indian burger filled with potato filling and topped up with masala peanuts, pomegranate seeds and sev. Dabeli a mixture of all different tastes and it is a yummy and a filling recipe. It is tangy, it is spicy, it is sweet, and it is pungent too because of the garlic chutney.
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It’s September and its the Mega Marathon Month. :-) Welcoming you all to this Cooking Carnival. Guess what theme I picked for this entire month? It’s the Chaat / Appetizers / Snacks. So starting today and for next 30 days, I will be sharing kids friendly (yes kids friendly too, I will be sharing how I serve these chaats for Vaandu) yummylicious, lip smacking, sweet and spicy, savory snacks and chaats from all over India. I hope you all enjoy and I am looking forward to hear your thoughts and comments.
The first chaat recipe that I am going to post for this marathon is Cutlets – these deep fried or shallow fried goodies are perfect tea time snack. It is pretty much similar to tikkis. Like many other recipes, cutlets can be prepared in zillion ways. But here is my super simple kid’s friendly deep fried beet root cutlet. Cutlets are perfect recipe where you can sneak in any veggies. With cookie cutters you can try different shapes and wow your kids and everyone.
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