DABELI!

Ingredients :------------------

Boiled and mashed potatoes 3-4
Fresh Pomegranates seeds - 1 small bowl
Onion chopped - 1 small bowl
Fresh corriander leaves - 1 bunch
Chick peas (soaked overnight and boiled in salted water) - 1/2 bowl (optional)
Green chillies finely chopped
Chopped tomatoes - 1 small bowl
paneer/cottage cheese cubes - 1 small bowl (optional)
Salt to taste
Red chilly powder - 1 tsp
Amchoor powder/dry mango powder - 1 tsp
Chat masala - 1 tsp
Pita bread or Pav or Bun - 5-6
Butter to roast

Method:--------------------

Mix all the ingredients in a bowl except pita bread and butter.

Add little butter to this and microwave the contents of bowl for one minute on high. Although this is totally optional but it gives good taste.

Now take a pita bread/pav/bun and slit it open from middle. Make a pocket out of it.

Pocket should be large enough to stuff the bowl contents. Stuff each Pita Bread with 2-3 spoon full of stuffing and keep aside.

This can be prepared in advance, say 2-3 hours and as soon as the serving time is near all you have to do is roast with butter on both sides on griddle/tawa for 5 mins or till the time upper crust of bread becomes crispy.

Serve with green coriander chutney or with tomato ketchup.

THE WADA PAV!

Welcome to the very first post of MUMBAI EATERY!




Well there is so much to start with.... about Mumbai.... its history....and blah blah blah blah....but when you are on job and have no time to for anyone and also short on cash.... you really have to eat something becoz you are HUNGRY and have no time to wait. What are you gonna do then.... the best ever thing you must never forget to eat in Mumbai is the Wada Pav!

Almost the staple food of all the Mumbaikars....

The potatoes are mashed or diced, made into patties, coated and mixed with green chilies, ginger and a phodani (tempering) of mustard seeds and turmeric. These balls are then dipped in an herb-seasoned batter made with gram flour, then it is deep-fried. The finished vada is then placed between the halves of a small bun called a pav, a word borrowed for a bun borrowed by Marathi from the Portuguese pão (lit., "bread") served with condiments such as various chutneys, red chili powder or green chilis (sometimes fried and salted). The chutneys are often made of coconut, tamarind pulp or garlic.

The Vada Pav is considered staple teatime snack in Maharashtra, particularly in Mumbai, where it has been popularized as street food. Vada Pav is available on hand carts, popularly known as Vada Pav chi gadi. They are seen everywhere in Maharashtra and also served at tea time in many of the state's small eateries and on long distance trains.