Newsprint Wrapped Delicacies: Street Foods in India

This is part of the popular street food, Chaat /Bhelpuri  in India and variations abound.

This is Ma's version with puffed rice, spice powders, chickpea-sev,  chopped vegetables and herbs.

An after-school snack for my niece.

Here is a collection of snapshots, taken over the course of our vacation / past 3 months in India.

One street snack that is missing here, one that I very much wanted to try and photograph was the Jhal Muri vendors plying the eastern railways route: old blue barley water tin cans,Britannia biscuit-tins,  painted red, yellow and blue cans, sleek steel cans. All fixed around a squat, square 'tin' then filled with condiments: some in clear polythene, some in upturned, sawed-off-bottom plastic/soda bottles, others in colourful plastic containers.

Further travel and ill health, stopped one from sampling this delicacy.

Ingredients

Puffed Rice=2 and half cups

Cucumber, cubed fine

Tomatoes, seeded and chopped, 1 Cup

Green chillies, chopped fine [ optional]

Fresh Coriander, chopped fine, 3 tbps

Mango Powder

Red Chilli powder

Salt

Lime Juice

Mix everything together, sprinkle with lime juice, serve topped with fried

chickpea flour mixture/sev

Onion Pakoda's fried crisp

Crisp Onion Fritters

Added to the Lunch Platter: Tasty with rice too!

Spicy Medu Vada's and Mirchi Bhaji's at Shilparamam, Hyderabad.

 Crisp fried vegetable samosa's: vendors ply around the Miriyalaguda Railway Station route.

Tea on the East -Indian Railways- in tiny disposable clay matka's

An old clay Ganesha presiding over bags of American Corn

Roasted American Corn at the Marina Beach, Chennai

An old paint can turned into a charcoal brazier with a hand-cranked bellow.

Roasted Corn Cobs outside the theme-village of Shilparamam

Ice gola's

Shaved ice soaked with rose syrup

Shaved Ice with a variety of syrups: rose, khus, dates