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Bombay Chowpatty Style Bhel Puri

Bombay Chowpatty Style Bhel Puri

Bombay Chowpatty Style Bhel Puri

Bhel Puri is a savory snack. Bhel Puri is also a type of chaat. Bhel Puri is originated from the Mumbai(Bombay), India. Bhel Puri is made of puffed rice, veggies like potato, tomato, onion, cucumber, some spices and a tangy tamarind chutney. This is most favorite and very common street snack in Mumbai. Actually, every street or gully has their own bhelwala (bhel puri vendor) in Mumbai.

Bhel Puri is often identified with the beaches of Mumbai(Bombay), such as Chowpatty. One theory for its origin is that it was invented at a restaurant called Vithal near VT station now its CST. According to another theory, Bhel puri was contributed by the city’s Gujarati community, who made it by adding complex flavors to the simple North Indian chaat. Gujarati housewives began making it, and invented several varieties like the sukhi(dry) bhel, papdi chaat, pakodi chaat, sev puri.. and as it spread many different communities thru all over India made their own versions.

Bombay Chowpatty Style Bhel Puri

Bhel puri can be served in many ways, but on road side it is usually served in a paper folded in the form of a cone and is consumed using a paper spoon or by the papdi which is itself an edible component of the bhel puri or it is just put on a paper plate. Bhelpuri is also made by sprinkling the puffed rice mixture with chunks of diced raw mango. The finished snack is often garnished with a combination of diced onions, coriander leaves and chopped green chilies, served with papdi Puri a deep-fried small crispy wheat cracker.

Ingredients:

• 4 cups Puffed Rice/Bhel Mumra
• ½ cup Finely Chopped Onion
• ½ cup Finely Chopped Tomato
• 1 cup Boiled Potato Cubes
• 1-2 Green Chilies Finely Chopped
• ¼ cup Chopped Raw Green Mango(opt.)
• ¼ cup Green Chutney
• ¼ cup Sweet Chutney/Khajur Imli Chutney
• 1 tsp Chaat Masala
• ¼ tsp Red Chili Powder
• 1 Lemon Juice
• 7-8 Papdi Puri
• ½ cup Sev
• ½ cup Coriander Finely Chopped

Bombay Chowpatty Style Bhel Puri

Method:

1. In a mixing bowl, add mumra/puffed rice, then add chopped onion, tomato, potato, raw mango, green chilies and cucumber.
2. Then add sweet chutney, green chutney, half of chopped coriander leaves, some chaat masala, chili powder and mix it well.
3. Crush some papdi puri and add into the mixture. Add lemon juice and then toss the mixture slightly.
4. Take a serving plate and put some prepared bhel mixture on it, top with chopped coriander leaves, chaat masala, sev and serve immediately and enjoy this easy and tasty chaat.

Bombay Chowpatty Style Bhel Puri

Tips:

• Adding spices, and veggies are as per you taste, you can increase or decrease as per your preference.
• You can add fried peanuts, salty boondi etc..namkeens in your bhel to make more flavorful.

Bombay Chowpatty Style Bhel Puri

Bombay Chowpatty Style Bhel Puri
 
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Prep time
10 mins
Cook time
5 mins
Total time
15 mins
 
Bhel Puri is a savory snack. Bhel Puri is also a type of chaat. Bhel Puri is originated from the Mumbai(Bombay), India. Bhel Puri is made of puffed rice, veggies like potato, tomato, onion, cucumber, some spices and a tangy tamarind chutney. This is most favorite and very common street snack in Mumbai. Actually, every street or gully has their own bhelwala (bhel puri vendor) in Mumbai.
Author: Binjal Pandya
Recipe type: Snack
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients
  • 4 cups Puffed Rice/Bhel Mumra
  • ½ cup Finely Chopped Onion
  • ½ cup Finely Chopped Tomato
  • 1 cup Boiled Potato Cubes
  • 1-2 Green Chilies Finely Chopped
  • ¼ cup Chopped Raw Green Mango(opt.)
  • ¼ cup Green Chutney
  • ¼ cup Sweet Chutney/Khajur Imli Chutney
  • 1 tsp Chaat Masala
  • ¼ tsp Red Chili Powder
  • 1 Lemon Juice
  • 7-8 Papdi Puri
  • ½ cup Sev
  • ½ cup Coriander Finely Chopped
Instructions
  1. In a mixing bowl, add mumra/puffed rice, then add chopped onion, tomato, potato, raw mango, green chilies and cucumber.
  2. Then add sweet chutney, green chutney, half of chopped coriander leaves, some chaat masala, chili powder and mix it well.
  3. Crush some papdi puri and add into the mixture. Add lemon juice and then toss the mixture slightly.
  4. Take a serving plate and put some prepared bhel mixture on it, top with chopped coriander leaves, chaat masala, sev and serve immediately and enjoy this easy and tasty chaat.
Notes
Adding spices, and veggies are as per you taste, you can increase or decrease as per your preference.
You can add fried peanuts, salty boondi etc.. namkeens in your bhel to make more flavorful.
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Bombay Chowpatty Style Bhel Puri was last modified: April 25th, 2019 by Binjal's VEG Kitchen

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    […] and left me wondering what “Chowpatty style” was as it was so good. After further research, I learned that Chowpatty is a beach in Bombay that had its own style of complex flavors due to the […]

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