Bhel

Bhel

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Bhel being one of my favourite snacks we end up preparing it often. I also prefer it during outings :) Preparing it at some nice picnic spot is the best, easiest and tastiest food :)


Ingredients
6 Cup Churmura
2 Cup All in One Mixture
1 Cup Shev
1 Cup Boondi
1 Cup Navaratna Mix
1.5 Cup Tamarind
2 Cup Jaggery
2 Green Chillies
1 Spoon Red Chilli Powder
1/2 Spoon Jeera Powder
4-5 Dates
2 Onions
2 Tomatoes
1/2 Cup Corriander Leaves
Salt to taste

Method

• Soak the tamarind and dates in water for an hour or so
• Grind the mixture with jaggery, red chilli powder, green chilli, jeera powder and salt
• Strain the mixture and keep it aside
• In a big pan mix churmura(puffed rice), navaratna mix, all in one, shev, finely chopped onion, tomatoes and corriander leaves. Mix well
• Add the tamarind mixture prepared earlier and Mix well
• Garnish with boondi and serve immediately

Notes
Garnish it with Raw Mango pieces during mango season. It would be more fun :)
Its good idea to make the bhel in batches so that it doesnt become soggy while serving it.
I normally prefer to keep some tamarind mixture aside instead of mixing the full quantity. That helps giving the personal touch :) The taste depends on what one likes.
Very good item for picnics and parties. You can keep everything ready and mix all of the items just before eating

Corn Chaat

Corn Chaat

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This dish evolved after reading few recipies related to chaat in a book that mom has given me.


Ingredients
1/4 cup Maida
1/4 cup Rava
1/2 spoon Curd
Pinch of Baking Powder
2 Cup Corn
2 Tomatoes
2 Onions
1 Lemon
1 spoon Ginger Garlic paste
Pinch of Garam Masala
Corriander Leaves
Shev
Salt to taste
Oil

Method

• Mix rava, maida, baking powder and salt to taste
• Warm the curd and a spoon of oil
• Mix it with the rawa maida mixture and make the dough out of this.
• Roll small puris out of this dough - very thin ones and fry it in oil
• Heat oil and add 1/2 tomato grated, 1/2 onion grated and let it cook for a while
• Add ginger garlic paste, garam masala red chilli powder and salt to taste and stir well
• Add corn to this and cook the corns over medium heat
• Chop remaining onion and tomatoes into fine pieces
• While serving break the puris into medium sized pieces and spread them on the dish
• Spread the corn mixture on top of this
• Spread finely chopped onions and tomatoes over this
• Sprinkle few drops of lemon all over the dish
• Then spread corriander leaves and shev and serve

Notes
You can optionally add 1/2 spoon of grated raw mango as well in this. In that case reduce the lemon drop quantity accordingly otherwise chaat might turn too sour.
Optionally sprinkle little chaat masala over this if you like
After the rawa-maida dough is ready you can mix it in grinder for a while. This as well as warm Curd helps in making the puris very crispy.

SPDP - Shev Batata Dahi Puri

SPDP - Shev Batata Dahi Puri

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Vaishali - A hotel on FC Road in Pune is very famous for this dish.. And ajoy being fequent visitor there i had additional pressure to make it as tastier as they make it.. And I was somewhat successful in it.. So here is the recipy.


Ingredients
7 Papadi style Puris
1 spoon Tamarind Chutney
3/4 spoon Green Spicy Chutney
1 medium sized Potato
1/2 cup Curd
4 spoon Shev
1/2 spoon Corriander leaves
1/2 spoon Corriander powder
1/2 spoon Cumin powder
1/2 spoon Chaat masala
2 spoon Sugar
Salt to taste

Method

• Cook potatoes in the cooker
• Mix curd with sugar and a pinch of salt and keep aside
• Remove the cover of the potato chop it into fine pieces
• Mix salt, corriander powder, cumin powder, chaat masala with these pieces
• Arrange 7 puris on a plate and add these finely chopped potato pieces on top of it
• Sprinkle green spicy chutney, then curd and then tamarind chutney on it
• Spread shev on top of it and garnish with corriander leaves

Notes
This is an ideal item for the party where in you can keep everything ready and just prepare the dishes while serving