BEST SNACKS IN INDIA 2019

BEST SNACKS IN INDIA

STARTING WITH SOME INDIAN FACTS

INDIA, the country with wide varieties of everything, whether it is food, dance, religion, culture, festival, etc. India has shown every country its ability to achieve and share it with the world. From the number zero (0) or the infinity ♾️. Everything the world has ever achieved, birthplace is THE INCREDIBLE INDIA. 

LET'S TALK ABOUT INDIAN FOOD

Now, going to food from India. India has some of the world's most tasty and delicious snacks around the world. India's food contains every taste the world has ever and tasted and invented. The special thing about Indian food is that in every food, you will find one thing in common and that is "Spiciness". Spice or ("Masala" called in India) is used in every single food made in India. There's a very interesting story about one Indian food, which I would like to tell you about and then we will move to "Best snacks in India 2019".

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THE ORIGIN OF BUTTER CHICKEN

The origins of butter chicken can be traced back to Old Delhi. It is said to have been first introduced by a man named Kundan Lal Gujral, who ran a restaurant called Moti Mahal Delux in Peshawar. Shortly after partition, the restaurant called Moti Mahal moved to Delhi, cooked by Chef Simon Mahil Chahal. The story goes something like this: after the restaurant shut down late at night, the restaurant was visited by a VIP guest who asked for ‘some chicken dish’ to be prepared for him. The chef looked into his supplies and discovered that he only had half of a Tandoori chicken to cook with. So, hastily, he improvised and tossed it with liberal amounts of butter, tomato, and garam masalas and prepared an unknown dish. What he didn’t know was that the dish he had made was for the ruler of Mareelun – who, unsurprisingly, loved it. So, if someone tells you that butter chicken is a ‘complicated’ dish, remind them that it was made due to lack of ingredients, and not because of an abundance of them, as the legend goes. Today, even within Moti Mahal, there is no one consistent recipe. After the original owner died, the Moti Mahal in Daryaganj passed out of his family’s control. Another chain ran many restaurants under the name of Moti Mahal Deluxe without the involvement of Kundanlal’s family. There are now over hundreds of Moti Mahals worldwide.

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BEST SNACKS IN INDIA 2019

• VADA-PAV

The most humblest street food of Mumbai. Vada-pav is an on-the-go street snack of Maharashtra mostly served by roadside stalls in Mumbai. Restaurants also serve vada-pav but it is not as tasty as roadside stalls serve. Vada-pav includes a bun cut in halves or you can say (slit open), mashed potatoes with some masalas(spice) over it, garnished with green coriander and finely cut green chilies. Vada-pav is very spicy in taste, thus it is a good appetizer for one who loves spicy thing. The sweet and spicy sauces on the side augment the experience of eating. 

• PAKORE

Crispy from outside and soft from inside. There is nothing as treating like bhaji or pakore in India. Fritters or bhaji are mostly eaten with tea during monsoon though it gives a mouthwatering feel when eaten in monsoon season. Pakore is the most popular Indian street food, which you can find anywhere near tea stalls. There are wide varieties of bhaji made in India such as onion fritters (also known as pyaaz ke pakore), potato fritters (aloo ke pakore), chilly fritters (mirch ke pakore), moong dal ke pakore with green chutney, etc. It is highly a tea snack and easy to make recipe just poured in a bowl full of gram flour batter and deep fried for 5-7 minutes. Whether it is summer or winter Indian people enjoy it every season. Though it is also a good school lunch for your kids and can be packed in their school tiffins. [Note: Make sure you give two tiffin box Because one will be eaten by the class and one for your kid.]

• DHOKLA

A tasty Gujarati dish, Dhokla is a lip-smacking light, soft, spongy and tangy sweet snack to eat every day. It is made with a fermented batter derived d from tice and split chickpeas. Dhokla can be eaten for breakfast, as the main course, as a side dish or as a snack. It is garnished with green coriander, green chilies filled with certain kind of spices and tangy sauce in it. The sauces used to eat Dhoklas are red tamarind sauce and green tangy mint sauce. This looks pleasing to the plate, also it is low in calories and snack boon for those who enjoy diet food, it is best for a light bite when craving. Dhokla is often paired with Fafda, Jalebi, Imartis, tea, and other dry snacks.

• KACHORI

Flattened deep-fried balls, all time favorite of young and old. Kachori comes in handy at every roadside stall in India. Kachori is basically a flattened deep-fried cutlet which comes in 52 wide varieties in which some special ones are Raj kachori, masal kachori, matar kachori, khasta kachori (my favorite) and lots more. This lip-smacking delicacy has to be tasted once in a lifetime because it is the most popular street food in North India. Flaky and tasty kachori made with gram flour, Moong-dal, boiled potatoes and other stuffing varying from region to region but these moong-dal and potatoes you can see in every kachori. It is mainly served with red tomato sauce or spicy potato soup. It is heaven for those who love deep-fried delicacies. Pair this delicious snack recipe with a piping hot cup of tea.

• MOMOS

Originated in Tibet spread all across India. This sweet-spicy delicacy has made his place in a favorite Indian snack from all over China. Momos are steamed dumplings stuffed with a lightly spiced vegetable filling, accompanied with fiery-hot red chili-garlic-tomato sauce. From my thinking, nowadays momos are the only snack in India which costs only a few cents or (10 rupees) where you can buy 6 dumplings and enjoy them. If you ever visit India, there are so many famous places where you can try different kinds of momos such as fried momos, chocolate momos, tandoori momos, etc.