Aloo Puri

Preparation time: 10 mins

Ingredients:

• Potato - 1-2
• Onion - 1
• Carrot - 1
• Chat masala- 1/4 sp
• Red chili powder - 1/2 sp
• Pani Puri - 10 -15
• Green Peas - 1 bowl
• Coriander leaves - 1sp
• Fresh Curd/Yogurt - 1/4 sp
• Salt - to taste
• Sev - 1sp

Method:

     Boil potatoes, remove its skin and smash them finely, transfer to a mixing bowl, add red chili powder, chat masala, salt and finely chopped coriander leaves, now our aloo filling is ready.

    Make a small hole on pani puri  by gently knocking on it by thumb nails so that we can stuff them with aloo filling. Later for each pani puri stuff them with 1/4 tsp of aloo filling, finely chopped onion, few boiled green peas and grated carrots and place around 7-8 stuffed puri in a serving plate, add 1/2 sp of fresh curd and sprinkle red chili powder, chat masala and salt to taste. Garnish with finely chopped coriander leaves and sev and serve.

Sev Puri

Preparation time: 10 mins

Ingredients:

• Tikki - 10 - 15
• Potato - 1
• Onion - 1
• Carrot - 1
• Red chili powder - 1/2 sp
• Green chutney - 1 sp
• Sweet chutney - 1 sp
• Salt - 1/4 sp
• Bombay Sev - 1 bowl
• Coriander leaves - 1 sp (Finely chopped)

Method:

       You can buy Tikki from stores or can prepare at home and store in a air tight container. Potato should be boiled, remove skin and cut into thin small pieces.

       Place around 7-8 tikki in a serving plate, add green chutney and sweet chutney on each tikki, Place potato pieces over them, add finely chopped onion and grated carrot, sprinkle red chili powder and salt to taste. Add lots of sev on each tikki, garnish with finely chopped coriander leaves and serve.

Aloo Chat

Preparation time: 20 mins

Ingredients:

• Potato - 2
• Onion - 3 sp
• Carrot - 3 sp
• Red chili powder- 1/4 sp
• Chat Masala - 1/4 sp
• Garam Masala - 1/4 sp
• Jeera powder - a pinch
• Salt - 1/4 sp
• Sav - 1/2 bowl
• Coriander leaves- 1 sp (Finely chopped)
• Oil - 1 bowl (Foe deep fry)

Method:

• Boil potatoes till 2-3 whistles, remove skin and cut into small cubes.
• Deep fry potato cubes till light golden brown and collect them in a plate with kitchen towel to remove excess oil. 
• In a big mixing bowl add fried aloo cubes and add red chili powder, garam masala, chat masala, jeera powder and salt and toss well.
• Add finely chopped onion, grated carrot and mix well, garnish with finely chopped coriander leaves and sev. Serve along with tomato ketchup. Makes a good evening snack.

Nippatt Masala

Preparation time: 5 mins

Ingredients:

• Nippattu - 2-3
• Green Chutney - 1sp
• Sweet Chutney - 1 sp
• Onion - 1 - 2 sp (Finely chopped)
• Carrot - 1sp (Grated)
• Tomato - 1sp (Finely chopped)
• Chat masala - a pinch
• Red chili powder - a pinch
• Salt - a pinch
• Puffed rice - 2sp
• Bombay sev - 2 sp
• Coriander leaves - 1sp (finely chopped)

How to proceed:

In a serving plate place nippattu, add 1/4 sp of green chutney and sweet chutney on each nippattu, mix and apply chutney through out the surface of nippattu and gently press on it so that it breaks into unequal big pieces. Now spread finely chopped onion, tomato, grated carrot over the nippattu and sprinkle pinch of red chili powder, chat masala, salt, and garnish with puffed rice, sev and finely chopped coriander leaves and serve. Make a good evening snack and quickly prepared if you have both green and sweet chutney ready.

Churmuri

Preparation time: 15 mins

Ingredients:

• Kadale puri/Puffed rice - 1 bowl
• Finely chopped onion - 3sp
• Grated carrot - 2 sp
• Tomato - 1
• Cucumber - 1 - 2 sp (finely chopped)
• Pineapple - 1 sp(finely chopped)
• Raw mango - 1sp (finely chopped)
• Green Chutney - 1 or 2 sp
• Sweet Chutney/Metha - 1sp
• Red Chili Powder - 1 sp
• Chat masala - 1/4 sp
• Salt - 2 -3 pinch
• Roasted peanuts - 1sp
• Roasted Moong dal - 1sp
• Small kodbale - 4 -5
• Crushed nippattu - 1/4 bowl
• Coriander leaves - 2 sp (finely chopped)
• Lime juice - 1/2 sp
• Bombay Sav - 2sp 

How to proceed:

     This is one of my all time favorite, if you have green chutney and sweet chutney ready and all required vegetables are finely chopped then you dont need much time to prepare churmuri, a very good snack to have with family and friends during evening. Its a real treat during winter eve.

In a big mixing bowl add finely chopped onion, tomato, cucumber, pineapple, raw mango, grated carrot, roughly crushed, small kodbale, nippattu, green chutney, sweet chutney, red chili powder, salt, chat masala and mix well using a spoon or spatula, add puffed rice, roasted peanut(congress kadale), moong dal, lime juce and finely chopped coriander leaves and mix well, transfer to a serving plate, garnish with bombay sav and serve immediately. We should mix all the ingredients just before serving otherwise it will become soggy and wont taste that good if you mix early.

Bread Delight

Preparation time: 20 min

Ingredients:

• Bread – 8 slices
• Potato – 1/4 kilo
• Green peas – ½ bowl (boiled)
• Onion – 1 medium (finely chopped)
• Coriander seed powder – ½ sp
• Green chutney -3 sp
•  Tomato – 1
• Salt to taste
• Chat masala – 1 sp
• Khara Boondi – 1 bowl
• Coriander leaves -1/2 bowl
• Curd – 1 bowl
• Salt to taste

Method:

• Pressure cook potatoes, peel off skin smash and transfer to a big bowl.
• Add 2 - 3 sp of boiled peas into it.
• Add coriander seed powder, green chutney, chopped raw onion and salt to taste, mix all of them gently using hand.
• Roast the bread slices till its crisp(using oven or griddle)
• Arrange this roasted bread in a serving plate.
• Place thoroughly the above prepared potato stuffing to cover the bread slices
• Add finely chopped raw tomatoes over the stuffing.
• Sprinkle chat masala and Khara boondi  on all over the stuffing
• Add a spoon of curd over each slice of bread and garnish with finely chopped coriander leaves, Serve.