Wednesday, August 17, 2011

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

12 comments:

  1. Wowwww... Wonderful post.. thanks for sharing :)

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  2. wow, so nostalgic, loved all the pictures, so many great memories attached :)

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  3. Looks like you are having loads of fun!!!! Enjoy! I loved the gola with rose syrup!!!

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  4. Slurp...slurp!!! Looks sooo.... good!!!!

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  5. Thanks HChandana, Priya, Preeti and Divya

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  6. Omg, just drooling rite now here..loved that gola with rose sryup,yumm!

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  7. ?
    Beautiful captures.Ice gola superb...

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  8. wow lady your holiday seems like so much of fun! i envy you for the goodies you at and the period you stayed ... gorgeous pic :)

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  9. Thanks Ananda! It was exciting but these were the bonus in between work!:-)

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  10. Hi ?, I have just seen that you have commented on some of my posts and I really appreciate that. You have obviously had a fab trip - what amazing food,amazing places. I have just finished The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai - I am fascinated by India.
    Thanks so much for coming by my blog x.

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  11. Your post brought back so many memories that I miss home now!!All mouthwatering stuff...topped with the shaved ice! Wish I could dig into all those right now!!

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