Saturday 16 July 2011

papdi chaat

This a street food in India.
Good evening time snacks.
For this you need to prepare papdi's first.


Recipe for papdi:

Makes : 40
Preparation time : 30 mins

Ingredients :
All purpose flour (or) maida : 1cup
salt : 1/2 tsp
oil (or) any kind of fat : 1 tbsp
Ajwain seeds (and /or) onion seeds : 1tsp
Water as required.

Method :
mix flour,salt,and oil together.
Add in water slowly.
Make a stiff dough.
(Don't knead to much)
Let the dough rest for 15 mins.
After 15 mins take some portion of dough, flatten it using a rolling pin.
Use some flour to dust for easy rolling.
Cut that into small circles using anything that is circular.
(top of a glass or Cookie cutter)
Now put two or three marks with fork here and there.
If you don't do this it will puff up like puri but you don't want that.
Take them and drop them in oil gently.
Deep fry till you get nice golden brown colour.
Take out , put them on paper towel so that if there is any excess oil it will be absorbed by that.


Now you can make chat with these papdis
For making chat you need

Ingredients :
Onion : 1 finely chopped
tomatoes : 1 finely chopped
cooked chick peas : 1/2 cup
Roasted peanuts : 1/2 cup
chat masala : 1tbsp
chili powder : 1tbsp
sev : 2 tbsp
tamarind chutney : 2 tbsp
green chutney : 2 tbsp
yogurt or curd : 2tbsp
coriander leaves : 2 springs

Method :

Arrange papdi's in a plate.
On top of each papdi add chopped onion , chopped tomato,chick peas, peanuts, tamarind chutney,green chutney,yogurt (or) curd, sev, coriander leaves.
Sprinkle some chat masala and chili powder.
Serve yummy dish as evening time snacks :)

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