Daabeli

Ingredients:

8 Hamburger buns

4 big boiled mashed potatoes

½ cup diced Onions

1 cup chopped Cilantro

½ cup spicy garlic chutney

½ cup sweet and tangy tamarind chutney

1 cup fine Sev

1 cup Seasoned Peanuts

1 cup Pomegranates

1 tbsp. oil

¼ cup of water

½ cup Butter

¼ cup dry grated coconut

½ tsp. cumin powder, coriander powder, red chili powder, fennel powder, salt, turmeric powder, chat masala, garam masala and optionally Dabeli masala.

Method

Mash the potato till there are no lumps and it is smooth. Add finely chopped onions in the mashed potato. Add all the dry spices in a bowl add some water and make a paste out of it. Heat a pan and add oil. Once heated add some fennel seeds and add the spice paste to the oil. Cook it for a few minutes on low flame. Add the potatoes and mix well. Add some water (not more than quarter of a cup) to make this mixture smooth. Once done add a layer of grated coconut, peanuts, pomegranate and cilantro.

Heat the tawa, apply butter, garlic and tamarind chutney and the potato mixture to the bun and toast it. Once done dip it in the cup of sev.

Garlic Chutney:

20-30 cloves of garlic

2-3 tsp heaped spoon of red chili powder/10 red chili

Salt

Method

Add all the ingredients in a blender and blend them till smooth paste. Add little water at a time to make smooth paste. As this paste is extremely hot add it to your dabeli sparingly but do not skimp on not making it as this gives the dabeli the authentic flavor.

Sweet Chutney:

1 cup Dry dates

½ cup Tamarind/ 3-4 tsp of tamarind paste

½ cup Jaggery

Salt

½ tsp red chilli powder

½ tsp roasted cumin seed powder

Method

Boil Tamarind and dates and strain them to form a thick liquid in a pan. You can add water to the strained out pulp to extract the remaining juices from the pulp. This measurement should yield around 3 cups of juice mix of tamarind and dates. But if using tamarind paste add it to the date juice extract and water to get the required consistency. Add salt, jaggery, chili powder and cumin powder. Now bring this to a boil till the mixture gets 1/4^th of its volume. Once cooled add this to dabeli or any other chaat.

Njoy!