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delicious dosas with sambar to steaming soft
idlis with coconut chutney.
Spiced papads, tangy bhelpuris and many
other chaats savories and sweets are available
here prepared just in front of you and served
to you with spicy chutneys and sauces and
what is more, you get all these delicacies at
affordable rates. You can wash these down
with a number of flavored sherbets, juices,
smoothies and ice creams.
The munchies you can buy off the streets
change from season to season. Corn on the cob
roasted on a charcoal fire and flavored with
salt, lime juice and chili pepper in the rains,
groundnuts, and roasted green grams in the
winter, fruit chaats and nimbu pani in summer.
You can also buy vada pav, green chili, onion
and potato bhajiyas, samosas, hot jalebis and
sandwiches all year round.
Ice Cream
MUST HAVE STREET TREATS
1. Golgappas filled with spicy water and out of the world tangy chutneys
at Elcko Arcade in hill road at Bandra.
2. Ice golas at kalakhatta cold drink house at CST.
3. Chaats, pakodas, dahi wadas, masala papads, bhelpuri ragda pattice,
hot and spicy kachoris at the Khau Gulli in kalbadevi.
4. Chivda from the chivda gulli. From here you get farali chivda to
poha chivda and the makai chivda.
5. Vada pav with tangy red hot chutney from the street side vendors.
6. Channa masala at Marine drive. The tangy and spicy channa – a lip
smackingly delicious mixture of green grams, finely chopped onion,
tomato, coriander, chaat masala and lime juice dried banana leaves.
7. Dabeli at the stalls near the Vile Parle Railway Station.
8. Multani diary at do tanki for their delicious mango, dry fruit and
special lassi with mawa in it.
Mumbai is chockfull of street food. Every locality has developed
its own khau galli specific to the character of population living there.
Street food is not only dirt cheap but also very hygienic.
These days the owners of food stalls have become very hygiene
conscious because they know if they play hanky panky with the people
they will lose their business. Besides, unlike restaurants they serve the
freshest and best food.
They do not keep the food for the next day to serve in the buffet,
which mostly consists of dishes made on the previous day.
I can write reams about this
food but because I wanted to keep
this precise I have written about
the best and outstanding buys.
Chana chat, vada pav, dry bhel
you can savor all these street food
delicacies hopping in Mumbai.
There is no other gastronomic
experience like having these
delightfully delicious foods on
the streets of Mumbai. Now you
can enjoy them at home too by
making the recipes given below.
Vada Pav
Ingredients
250 grams potatoes boiled, peeled
and mashed.
2 tablespoons chopped coriander
leaves.
6 curry leaves.
1 green chilly mashed, 1 garlic
mashed.
¼ teaspoon mustard seeds.1
teaspoon lime juice.
100 grams flour, salt to suit the
taste.
Method
Heat ½ teaspoon oil adds mustard seeds when they stop crackling add
garlic and curry leaves mix well. Remove from fire add all the above
ingredients with the exception of gram flour. Knead the potato mixture
into smooth dough. Form into small balls and keep aside. Put enough
water in gram flour to make a smooth batter mix in salt to suit the taste.
Dip the potato balls one by one in the batter and deep fry to a light
golden color. Drain the balls. Take a pav slit in the centre half way
through. Spread on it green or dry red chutney put a piping hot Wada
and enjoy.
Dry Red
Chili Chutney.
Ingredients
100 grams dry red chilies
50 grams dry coconut grated, 4 flakes
garlic
Salt to suit the taste.
Method
Dry roast chilies, coconut and garlic on a
slow fire till a nice aroma emanates from it. Grind to a coarse paste.
You can keep this chutney for 15 days.
Dry Bhel
Ingredients
Kurmura or puffed Rice.
Handful of cornflakes.
1 tomato, minced.
1 small onion, minced.
1 potato boiled and diced.
1 cucumber, minced.
Handful of chopped coriander leaves.
1 tsp. chaat masala.
Lime juice.
Salt and chili powder to suit the taste.
Method
Put a little oil in a pan and fry the
puffed rice for a few seconds. Mix
together all the above ingredients
and serve at once.
Channa Chaat
Ingredients
1 cup boiled green channa.
2 tbsp. minced onions.
1 small cucumber diced.
1 small tomato diced.
1 beetroot boiled and diced.
1 tsp. sugar.
1 tsp. chaat masala.
1 tbsp lime juice.
2 green chilies minced.
Handful of coriander leaves.
Salt to suit the taste.
Method
Mix together all the above
ingredients sprinkle lime juice,
chaat masala and serve.
Golden Reejsinghani is a freelance
writer based in Mumbai
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