INDIAN STREET FOOD AT HOME: RECIPES FOR CHAAT, KULFI AND MORE
Indian street food is the one-stop place to experience tangy, sweet, and spicy flavors in different street foods all over India. Different street foods from various regions, such as pav bhaji masala, bhel puri, and vada pav, are common in Maharashtra, dabeli in Gujarat, and Delhi's aloo chat recipe is popular among food lovers.
These Indian street foods are readily available over streets, and also you can make them and delight your guests, family, and friends by making most of the street foods the same as the streets. Read more to get easy street food recipes to try on.
How To Make Many Indian Street Foods At Home
Making and giving the same taste and flavor as available on the streets sounds daunting, but it is not. Anybody can prepare most Indian street foods at home easily and quickly with the right ingredients.
Pav Bhaji Masala
Pav bhaji masala is famous in Mumbai regions mostly. Now, it is on the menu of most restaurants all over India and worldwide. It consists of pav with butter served with masala prepared from vegetables. Prepare this delicious delicacy of pav bhaji recipe at home with these quick steps.
Ingredients
For making bhaji,
- 1 - Medium size cauliflower florets
- 1-inch - Ginger slice
- 2 - Capsicum (chopped)
- 2 Cups - Water
- 4-5 - Garlic
- 2 - Carrots
- 6-7 - Medium potatoes
- 4 Tbsp - Butter
- To Taste - Salt
- 1 Cup - Green peas
For Cooking,
- 2 Cups - Chopped tomatoes
- 1 ½ Cups - Chopped onions
- 2-3 - Chopped Green chilies
- 1 Tbsp - Ginger garlic paste
- 3 Tbsp - Butter
- ½ Cup - Oil
- To Taste - Salt
- ½ Cup - Tomato puree
- 1 - Chopped capsicum
- 1 Tbsp - Alco Red chili powder
- 2 Tbsp - Alco Mumbai Pav Bhaji Masala
- ½ Tsp - Sugar
- 1 Tbsp - Coriander leaves
- Boiled & mashed vegetables
- Water
Instructions
For Making Bhaji,
- Add cauliflower florets, capsicum, ginger, garlic, water, potato, carrot, salt, green peas, and butter in a pressure cooker and cook til they become soft.
- Now mash properly and keep it aside.
For Tempering,
- Heat butter in a pan, add onion, and cook until pinkish-brown.
- Add ginger-garlic paste, green chilies, tomatoes, and salt, and cook till soft.
- Add freshly prepared tomato puree and cook for a few minutes.
- Now add capsicum, and cook.
- Now keep around 3 tbsp of masala aside for use in later stages.
- Add Alco red chili powder, butter, and Alco Mumbai pav bhaji masala and mix for a minute.
- Mix boiled and mashed vegetables, water, sugar, and butter, and cook for another 4-5 minutes.
- Garnish with coriander leaves and turn off the heat.
- Serve with toasted pav, onion, lemon, and coriander leaves.
For Toasting and Masala pav,
- Add butter to a hot pan, toast the pav from both sides, and keep aside.
- To make masala pav, add butter and the masala prepared that was kept aside in the above process, and coat the toasted pav from both sides.
- Serve the best pav bhaji masala.
Dabeli
Dabeli is a mouth-watering street food that comes from Gujarat. The Dabeli recipe is simple, with pav and flavorful masalas for an added kick in every bite. The fusion of masalas and green and tamarind chutney enhances the taste of this street food.
Ingredients
- 1 Tsp - Green chutney
- 1 Tsp - Tamarind chutney
- 1/2 Cup - Water
- 1 Tbsp - Oil
- 2- Potatoes (boiled&mashed)
- To Taste - Salt
- 1 Tbsp - Alco Magic Masala
- 1 Tsp - Grated coconut
- 1 Tsp - Coriander
- 1 Tsp - Sev
- 1 Tsp - Pomegranate seeds
- 1 Tsp - Salted & roasted peanuts
- For Serving
- 2 - Pav
- 2 Tsp - Chopped onions
- Butter for toasting pav
Instructions
- Heat a pan; add oil, Alco magic masala, tamarind chutney, and water.
- Cook for some time, and ensure there are no lumps.
- Add potatoes and salt and mix well.
- Take the cooked mixture out of the plate, and top it with chopped onions, coriander, sev, pomegranate, and Alco salted and roasted peanuts.
- Slit the pav in the middle, apply green chutney on one side and tamarind chutney on the other.
- Stuff the potatoes mixture/masala into the pav.
- Toast the pav in the butter and coat with sev.
- Serve the mouth-watering dabeli.
Pani Puri
Pani Puri is everyone’s favorite. The Pani Puri recipe is a delightful street staple available everywhere. The puri is punctured in the middle to fill the potato stuffing with masalas, the pani of mint leaves, and tamarind with pani puri masala. It is called golgappe, gupchup, and puchkas in different regions.
Ingredients
For Stuffing,
- 2-3 - Boiled potatoes
- 1 Tsp - Alco cumin powder
- 1 Tsp - Alco red chili powder
- 1 Tsp - Alco Kashmiri Red Chili Powder
- To Taste - Salt
- 1 - Onion (chopped)
- 2-3 - Green chilies (chopped)
For Pani
- 3 Cups- Water
- 1/2 Tsp - Black salt
- 1 Cup - Mint & coriander leaves paste
- 1/2 Cup - Soaked tamarind
- 1 Tsp - Alco Cumin Powder
- 1 Tsp - Alco red chili powder
- 1 Tsp - Amchur powder
Instructions
- Take boiled potatoes, and add chopped onions, green chilies, and salt.
- Add Alco Kashmiri red chili powder, cumin powder, and red chili powder.
- Mix well and add to the puris.
- To make pani, add black salt, cumin powder, red chili powder, and amchur powder.
- Add soaked tamarind to the water and mint and coriander leaves paste.
- Dip the stuffed puri in water and enjoy pani puris.
Aloo Chat
Aloo chat recipe includes potatoes, sweet and tangy chutneys with sev, and pomegranate seeds. Chat has many variations, in which aloo chat is one of them. It is easy to make with a few ingredients and quickly prepared.
Ingredients
- 2 - Large potatoes
- 2 Tbsp - Oil
- 1 Tsp - Ginger
- 1 - Green chili
- 1/2 Tsp - Alco cumin powder
- To Taste - Salt
- 1/2 Tsp - Alco Chat Masala
- 1/2 Tsp - Alco red chili powder
- 1 Tbsp - Coriander leaves
- 2 Tbsp - Sev
- 2 Tbsp - Pomegranate seeds
- 1/2 Tsp - Lemon juice
Instructions
- Boil cubed potatoes for a few minutes.
- Heat a pan, add oil, and potatoes to deep fry potato cubes.
- Add Alco red chili powder, chat masala, salt, and cumin powder.
- Add green, tamarind chutney, and lemon juice, and give a good mix.
- Serve with sev and pomegranate seeds.
Kulfi
Kulfi is a perfect alternative to ice creams. It is the favorite dessert during summer to enjoy. The Kulfi recipe has whole-fat milk, sugar, and flavors of cardamom and nuts. It has a thicker consistency than other ice creams because of slow-cooking milk for long durations.
Ingredients
- 2 Cups - Full-fat milk
- 2 Tsp - Cornflour
- 1 Cup - Milk (mix with cornflour)
- 1/4 Cup - Sugar
- 1/4 Tsp - Cardamom powder
- 1 Pinch - Saffron strands
- 8-10 - Pistachios
- 1/4 Cup - Cream
- 4 - Chopped pistachios
Instructions
- Boil the milk on a slow flame for a long by keep stirring.
- Blend pistachios and saffron coarsely in a mixer jar.
- After 10 minutes of boiling milk, add sugar and cook again.
- Add corn flour to one cup of milk and stir well.
- Pour this milk mixture into the pot and lower the flame.
- Add the nuts and cardamom powder.
- Pour cream and add and cook for some time.
- Switch off the flame and cool it completely.
Make Kulfi
- Pour this into kulfi molds, and cover with aluminum foil.
- Add ice cream sticks and freeze them overnight.
- Put the molds in water for 1 minute and de-mold them.
- Sprinkle pistachios and saffron mixture and serve.
Summing Up
Indian street food is famous all over because of its vibrant flavor and taste. Different regions' street foods are prevalent everywhere, like pav bhaji, aloo chat, dabeli, etc. These have sweet, sour, intense, and spicy flavors in one dish to elevate mood.
These street foods can be prepared at home with easy recipe steps, and you can enjoy them without worrying about visiting the streets to enjoy them.