Bhel - Pushpa Gadde
If you are a creative person you can add stuffs which you like from the pantry, still it would be a perfect snack. Every time I make this recipe I keep adding different ingredients to it and the process never ends. You can add boiled potato, cooked chana (garbanzo beans), roasted peanuts, cucumber, chopped tomato, raw mango, spring onions, carrots, sprouts, any cooked beans like black eye bean, kidney beans, lima beans blah blah and the list goes on and on. So just be creative and add what you like :)
Here goes the recipe!!!!
Tamarind Chutney:
This is the main ingredient of this recipe which gives it the taste we generally crave for. And you can also use this chutney with pani-puri if you want. It is both sweet and spicy to taste so you will not have to go and look for any other chutney to go with your favorite chat.
Ingredients:
1 cup tamarind
1/2 cup jaggery
2 tbsp sugar
1 tsp cumin powder
1 tsp chilli powder
1/4 tsp black pepper powder
2-3 cloves
2 cups warm water
1/4 tsp black salt
2 tbsp lemon juice
2-3 green chillies
1 tsp oil, salt
1. Soad tamarind in water and then squeez out all the pulp to get tamarind concentrate.
2. Heat oil in a pan and add green chillies, cloves and tamarind concentrate to it.
3. Add the rest of the masala powders, sugar, jaggery and cook till it gets comletely cooked and is thick to desired consistency.
4. In the end add lemon juice and mix well.
Tamarind chutney is ready. This can be saved in refrigerator in an air-tight container for over a week.
For bhel:
1 cup puffed rice
1/2 cup sev(I use aloo bhujia)
1/4 cup chopped onion
1/2 cup dal mixture
1/4 cup roasted salted peanuts
1/2 cup tamarind chutney
3-4 boiled potatoes mixed with pinch of salt
1 chopped tomato
1 chopped english cucumber
1 grated carrot
few sprigs coriander leaves
Add all and Enjoy this tasty and easy to make snack anytime you want.
Note: You can also use mixed mixture available in the grocery stores.
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