Here is the list of 10 very famous street food from across the India.
India has variety of street foods. The tastes abd sheer variety to be be found in Indian street food is unbelievable. It’s a famous saying that one should eat to live but definitely India lives to eat. Keeping aside moral predisposition at times, we can say India is a land of foodie. Food forms an integral part of the plethora of Indian festivals and family get togethers. Cultural and traditional diversity has resulted in a smorgasbord of cuisines and styles. While Speaking of India’s love for food, one can’t forget street foods and simultaneously chaat. Yes, chaat tops the chart of India’s street foods but every Indian city has its own specialty of street food.
1) Ghugni Chaat
Ghugni is made with dried yellow or white peas. Peas are soaked, boiled, tempered, and cooked with tomatoes and spices. The smoldering hot peas are added to a small leaf bowl garnished with spoonful of hot green chutney, lime juice and chopped onions.
2) Chole Kulche
Chole kulcha is one of the popular street food of north india specially in delhi and amritsar. you might see many street vendors selling matar kulcha in roads or even outside schools and colleges. they serve the matar in large brass pots. Chole kulcha is more popular in north india only. although you might get kulcha in good restaurants in central as well as southern india too
3) Naan Khatai
It is a traditional eggless Indian biskoot available in bakery shops, but the most delicious Naan Khatai you will find on the Rehdees (Hand cart) in the main market of Paharganj, Delhi.
4) Chaat
There are many varities of Chaats. The chaat variants are all based on fried dough, with various other ingredients. The original chaat is a mixture of potato pieces, crisp fried bread Dahi vada or Dahi Bhalla ("Bhalla" in Hindi), gram or chickpeas and tangy-salty spices, with sour home-made Indian chilli and Saunth (dried ginger and tamarind sauce), fresh green coriander leaves and yogurt for garnish, but other popular variants included Aloo tikkis (garnished with onion, coriander, hot spices and a dash of curd), bhel puri, dahi puri, panipuri, dahi vada, papri chaat, and sev puri. There are common elements among these variants including dahi, or yogurt; chopped onions and coriander; sev (small dried yellow salty noodles); and chaat masala, typically consisting of amchoor (dried mango powder), cumin, Kala Namak (rock salt), coriander, dried ginger, salt, black pepper, and red pepper. The ingredients are combined and served on a small metal plate or a banana leaf, dried and formed into a bowl.
5) Poha Jalebi
Poha-Jalebi is the best nashta of Madhya Pradesh. The commercial capital of the ‘heart of India’, Indore is popular for a wide range of namkeens, chaats, samosa, lapsi and poha-jalebi is the best street food served here. Garnished with sev and jalebi, the nutritious poha turns into a delicacy.
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6) Dabeli
Dabeli is a very popular spicy snacks item made by boiled potatoes with a special dabeli spices and putting the mixture between the pav. Dabeli very now famous across the streets of Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore and other cities of peninsular India but originates from the Kutch region of Gujarat in Ahmedabad. Dabeli is similar to vada pav considering ingredients involved but differs in preparation.
7) Gol Gappe
Gol Gappa, also known as Paani Puri, Paani ke Bataashe, Puchka and Gup Chup , are round, hollow and crispy puris filled with a mixture of flavored water and mashed, dried peas, boiled potato and chickpeas. It is popular in Mumbai, Delhi, Lucknow, Kolkata and almost every other city in India. The gol gappe at different places vary not just in their names but also the stuffing and the flavour of the water.
8) Bhel Puri
Bhel puri is a lip-smacking anytime snack. Bhel puri is a lip-smacking anytime snack.It is mixture of puffed rice, sev (tiny noodle shaped snack made out of gram flour), peanuts, namkeens, onions, boiled potatoes and tamarind chutney. All these products are simply mixed in a bowl and dressed with lime juice to form the Bhel Puri which is gladly munched by people all over the country. Sev Puri and Dahi Puri are the common variants of Bhel Puri. It is typically served in a paper-folded cone with a small wooden spoon.
9) Pav Bhaji
It is a spicy fast food, again typical to the Mumbai cuisine of Maharashtra. However, it has now become popular in most metropolitan areas of the country, serving as a common appetizer. Pav means unflavoured bread and bhaji is a Maharashtrian term for a vegetable dish. It essentially consists of thick potato based gravy with vegetables like cauliflower, egg plant, green peas, beans, carrots etc blended in and cooked. This highly nutritious curry is served with buttered Pavs and raw onions and a sprinkle of lime juice. Coriander chutney may also be served with it. The dish was originally made for the textile mill workers in Mumbai who required a light but nutritious meal during the work hours. Slowly, its popularity expanded and now it has almost become the stale diet of the denizens of Mumbai.
10) Vada Pav
This can easily qualify as the domestic version of a burger consisting of a deep-fried mashed potato patty, called the Vada, sandwiched between two pieces of bread called Pav. The Vada is generally very spicy and is flavoured with garlic and ginger. It is served with red tamarind chutney, green coriander chutney and fried green chillies, making it even spicier. These days, private food chains have started marketing Vada pavs. It is the most common fast food in Maharashtra and one can see many-a-man strolling on the beach, munching on a Vada-pav.
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