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Spicy street food

We all love eating street food items? But here’s how you can prepare these yummy and tantalizing dishes at your home only! I am sure you would love these recipes!
• Batata vada:
Ingredients to prepare batata vada:
150gm gram flour, ½ tsp red chili powder, 300 gm potatoes, ½ tsp soda-bi-carbonate, 8 green chilies, 1 cup curd, 1 tsp sugar, 2 tsp garam masala powder, 1 tsp garlic paste, salt to taste, 2 tsp lemon juice, 2 tbsp green chopped coriander, ½ tsp turmeric powder

Method to prepare batata vada:
Boil potatoes and peel them off. Mash nicely.
Add sugar, green coriander, green chilies, salt, lemon juice, garam masala powder and garlic together in a grinder. Grind nicely and then mix this paste with mashed potatoes.
Divide the whole mixture into 15 parts. Prepare rounds balls from each of them.
Mix gram flour with red chili powder, soda-bi-carbonate, salt and water to prepare a thick paste.
Now dip each ball into this mix and deep fry in oil.
Beat curd in a bowl. Add sugar and ½ tsp red chili powder along with green coriander.
Serve hot with curd.

• Paneer pakora
Ingredients to prepare paneer pakora:
Paneer cut into big chunks, 2 cup gram flour, 1 tsp garam masala, 2 chopped onions, salt to taste, 3 copped green chilies, salt to taste, 2” piece grated ginger, 1 tsp dhania powder, ½ tsp red chili, oil for frying

Method to prepare paneer pakora:
Mix garam masala, onions, gram flour, salt, dhania powder, ginger and green chilies in a bowl. Now add water to this mix to prepare a thick batter.
Dip paneer pieces in it and deep fry them on medium flame.
When pakoras turn golden brown, remove from flame.
Sprinkle chat masala on paneer pakoras and serve hot with mint chutney.

• Masala Pao
Ingredients to prepare masala pao:
½ cup water, 1 packet pao, 2 tsp Kashmiri Mirch powder, 2 finely chopped onion, 1 tbsp garlic paste, 2 tsp chat masala, ½ cup sev, 2 tsp pao bhaji masala, ½ cup peanuts
Method to prepare masala pao:
Prepare pao bhaji and mash it very nicely so that there is no lump in it.
Prepare chutney by mixing pao bhaji masala with Kashmiri mirch, garlic paste and water.
Cut pao from center, apply butter on both sides and place them on hated tawa.
Now place pao bhaji with chopped onions, garlic chili chutney, chat masala in pao and cook again on tawa.
When done, finally add peanuts and sev over the top.
Transfer it to the serving place and serve hot.
• Bhel puri
Ingredients to prepare bhel puri:
½ cup sev, 1 cup murmure, salt to taste, 2 tbsp roasted peanuts, chat masala to taste, 1 tbsp chana dal fry, 2 tbsp lemon juice, 2 boiled potatoes, 2 tbsp fresh coriander, 1 chopped green chili, 1 chopped onion
Method to prepare bhel puri:
Chop boiled potatoes, coriander, green chilies and onions separately.
Mix together and add murmure, half quantity of sev, peanuts, and fried chana dal to it.
Add salt and lemon juice. Mix nicely.
Sprinkle some sev over top with chat masala.
Serve.

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