Bhelpuri With Salad|A Not So Sindhi Chaat Recipe

Alka Keswani — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 07:29:07 +0000

Bhelpuri~ One of the most popular chaat/ street food! Indians need no introduction for this quick to whip up, tangy mixture of puffed rice, boiled potatoes, chopped onion, farsan (crispy or crunchy, mixed fried munchies) mint and coriander chutney (dip), sweet tamarind/sonth chutney topped up with some crunchy sev (thin, fried, salted gram flour noodle strings). I sometimes wonder if its just Sindhis, who have a strong affinity for chaats or does it apply to all the communities of India? I doubt whether anyone can resist any type of lip smacking chaat, be it Panipuri, Sevpuri, Dahi puri, Raga patties or Bhelpuri . My son is very fond of Bhelpuri, sookha bhelpuri , the drier version of regular bhelpuri, with the fresh tang provided by irresistible lemon juice (lime juice) instead of chutneys. Now, I would any day prefer to offer him a bowlful of ‘home-fixed’ bhel as after-school snack, than the addictive packaged chips or sugar loaded tetra packed fruit juice. And to make sure that the junk quotient of fried munchies is somewhat balanced by few healthy ingredients thrown in, I add in some chopped vegetable salad, coated with honey, lemon juice and red chilly dressing! Little sweet, little tangy, bit savory, crunchy and healthier Bhelpuri to curb the mid meal hunger pangs, sounds good deal, eh? And while the young lad savors the drier version, I am always happy to throw in a dash of fiery green chilly chutney, some sweet date and tamarind chutney or Sonth chutney, some mint and coriander chutney and voila! the spicy salad bhel is ready to relish! Print Bhelpuri With Salad|A Not So Sindhi Chaat Recipe Rating 5.0 from 1 reviews Prep time: 15 mins Total time: 15 mins Serves: 1-2 The famous street food of India, a snack made by mixing puffed rice and various condiments and fried munchies, just before serving, the Bhelpuri is favorite of one and all! Ingredients Kurmura (Puffed rice) 3 cups Mint coriander chutney 2 tsp Date tamarind chutney/Sonth chutney 1-2 tsp Salt Red chilly powder ½ tsp (or as per taste) Mixed Farsan (Bombay mix or any other variety) ¼ cup or less For Salad Mix:(Use veggies of your choice, in any proportion, you prefer) ½ small red onion, finely chopped ½ small potato boiled, peeled and chopped 1 tbsp chopped red bell pepper 1 tbsp chopped yellow bell pepper 2 tbsp shredded/chopped cabbage 1-2 tbsp of diced tomato, without pulp 1 tbsp of finely chopped Raw mango (optional) Salt for seasoning Few drops of honey (optional) Red chilly powder, as per taste For Garnish Fresh coriander leaves Chaat masala ¼ tsp (optional) Crispy Bombay Puris (Deep fried Maida puris) * 2-4 2 tbsp Nylon sev, Method Mix all the ingredients listed under 'For Salad', in a small bowl.keep it aside. Now in a large bowl, mix all the ingredients(except those listed under 'For garnish'), along with the salad mix. Toss well using two forks or spoons. Serve in a plate or bowl after garnishing with coriander leaves, some nylon sev and crispy Bombay Puri and make sure to consume it immediately or else the bhel will turn soggy. Notes * Though Bombay Puris are readily available across India, but if you are unable to find these nearby, its easy to make these at home. The below recipe yields around 20-27 puris, depending upon the size. Ingredients : A pinch of asafoetida 1 cup All purpose flour (Maida) ½ tsp cumin seeds/Ajwain (caraway)seeds 2 tsp oil (Ghee is preferred) Salt to taste ½ tsp Red chilly powder Sufficient water to make a dough Oil for deep frying Method: Mix ghee/oil with maida together till the mixture looks like bread crumbs. Add salt, chilly powder, hing, ajwain/ cumin seeds and knead a tight dough using water.Let the dough rest for a while. Now divide this dough into 2 portions and roll each portion like a roti. Prick all over the surface with a fork. Dip a circular cookie cutter, or a very small katori or lid of any small bottle in dry flour and cut out small discs from rolled dough and keep aside, well covered! Deep fry, few pieces at a time, in hot oil,keeping the flame low, so that the puris do not remain uncooked from inside. Drain on kitchen towel and let these cool completely before storing in an airtight container. Stays well for several days at room temperature, if kept away from moisture. 3.1.09 Also Note: For sookha or dry bhel, you can skip all sorts of chutneys and just add freshly squeezed lemon juice in puffed rice mixture. To bring in some sweet flavor, use around 1/4 tsp of honey in salad dressing or a pinch of sugar or so!

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Chaat or Salad ?

admin — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 04:09:52 +0000

From past few months, I have been feeling this terrible urge of attaining some super power to uproot all the maddening bad, prevailing around.I can feel a transition within me from being a happy go lucky girl to a nagging, yelling, irked person, conferring eternal damnation to at least 20 people per day (in my thoughts of course). Little things start bothering me and I see red at drop of the hat.When I discuss this with my friends and well wishers, everyone suggests the same thing…”you can’t change the world and there is no sense in fretting and fuming, so just calm yourself and better practice some Meditation.” I agree yoga does helps me considerably to cool down, but is it always possible to remain cool or rather is it always necessary to be as cool as cucumber? Still I took the suggestions of my friends and practiced some deep breathing exercise every time I was cornered . Grocery man, weighing 953 gm of sugar instead of 1000 gm in front of my eyes…I deep breathed and remain silent Ricksha walla (driver of three wheeler public transport) demanded 7 INR instead of official 5 INR rate…I obliged Telephone connection went boooooohooooo….I remained silent Internet connection didn’t got restored despite of hundreds of calls to the pathetic customer care guys and to even- more -pathetic local service providers….I kept quiet. Ethernet card was destroyed due to lightning, TV tuner card went kaput..I didn’t moaned. Just because we reside at wrong side of metro city, we go without current for 8 hours a day, while the metro which is just 25 kms (distance between two railway stations) from our place enjoy uninterrupted power supply….I bear this with silence. Dirty politics in offices, bribe greedy officials in government institutions and policeman demanding free rides in public transport vehicles, female infanticide, people throwing infants and even embryos in garbage bins (whatever their personal excuses be) while garbage stinking in fronts of homes, potholes on roads, that are shoddily filled when some MLA is expected, only to go crap within few days and working class idiotically paying their taxes (coz they are deducted at source) while businessman cleverly escapes from the clutches of Honorable finance minister who can hike the rates of petrol when globally crude oil rates shoots to 110$ /barrel, but forgets to dive back , when the rates slide down to as low as 70 $/bbl There is more stupidity on TV, with every absurd news served to us as BREAKING NEWS, Reality Shows with not so real tears and stories, vulgar stuff aired in the name of Modernism and morons hogging up the limelight, while serious issues concerning to common man are not voiced even for the heck of Genuine news.All served to us between ADVERTISEMENTS.If you watch TV for say 30 minutes, you end up seeing advertisements for 18 minutes and actual stuff for 12 minutes or even less..I don’t do anything to change that……So I keep my cool and stop watching TV instead, but…. …..how far can a sensible person stay deaf, dumb and blind to such apathy ?? Should we always turn our eyes from all this ILL and just call ourselves cool ? I agree ranting wont change anything, but is it possible for a pulsating heart to ignore all this and keep silent with few pranayams? Wont we be as good as dead then? I know even when I wrote all this, nothing is gonna change..not even 0.5% …but should we just seal our lips and ears and eyes and lay dead ? Well after boiling so much of my blood over these issues, I definitely need some energy to go on.When I was a kid, my Mother used to say that pulses and vegetables gives us energy and make us strong.So now let me have some SUPER MOLECULES or proteins as they are generally called and what better source than Kaalachana. I am confused to categorize this simple but power packed dish.I can call it salad since it is a food mixture consisting of boiled and raw stuff,with a tangy dressing, but then I also remember this as one of our favorite chaat sold outside our school gate! So call it whatever you want..but do include this in your diet . Print Chaat or Salad ? Healthy Legume salad recipe Ingredients Kaala chana(black chickpeas) Tomato 1 Onion 1 salt and pepper to taste Tamarind chutney or lemon juice 1-2 tsp Boiled potato Coriander leaves to garnish Method Pick the chana,rinse properly many times with water ,and soak them for about 5-6 hours Later boil it with salty water till cooked.If un-soaked or not soaked for enough time,you might need to boil it for more time, otherwise it is almost done in 2-3 whistles in a pressure cooker.Again that depends upon the quality of chana.So keep experimenting When done, lay them in serving bowl or plate,top it up with dash of salt, pepper powder,chaat masala powder(optional), red chilly powder(optional),2 spn (more or less ....depends upon your taste) tamarind water(just soak a ping ball size of tamarind in half cup of water for 10 minutes,mash it and squeeze it properly.Discard the pulp,and use the tamarind water) Add chopped onion,tomato,boiled potato,or veggies of your choice.Garnish it with coriander leaves 2.2.1 This simple salad is going for: Sra’s My Legume Love Affair Which is the brainchild of Susan Sangeeth’s Eat Healthy-Fight Diabetes contest Divya of Dilse for Diet Food Event

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Bhelpuri With Salad|A Not So Sindhi Chaat Recipe

Chaat or Salad ?