• Indian snacks

    From JIM WELLER@1:135/392 to SHAWN HIGHFIELD on Wednesday, April 27, 2022 21:19:00
    Quoting Shawn Highfield to Jim Weller <=-

    Ever since you mentioned it I've popped into a few of the mom and pop pizza places. Almost every one will make an "Indian style" for you without batting an eye. They don't seem to be on the menu yet but if
    you ask you shall recieve.

    I recently bought a packet of Haldiram's Bhel Puri. I have also seen
    bags with more English on them labeled Bombay Mix. It's a type of
    Namkeen (salty savory snack) made from nuts, legumes, legume and
    grain flours and flakes including thin, deep fried vermicelli. I've
    had their Bhujia Sev before but got their Bhel Puri this time. It is
    a mixture of puffed rice, sev (vermicelli), puri (hard, crisp,
    deep-fried crackers or wafers) and other miscellaneous things. It
    comes with three different pouches of sauce: a smooth tomato and red
    chile chutney, green chutney made with from coriander, mint leaves
    and green chillies, and a sweet date and tamarind chutney. I poured
    all three pouches over the dry ingredients, stirred tit altogether
    and baked the result in a 300 oven for 25 minutes so the that
    mixture was dry and crisp again.

    For the first meal I made a mild soupy curry with leftover Easter
    turkey, turkey gravy, diced potatoes, Patak's Butter chicken cooking
    sauce and a little yogurt. I sprinkled some of the Bombay Mix over
    each bowl like croutons just before serving it.

    We liked it so much we sprinkled some on stir fried green beans,
    tossed salad and Dutch split green pea soup the next three days.

    At $1.79 for 150 grams it's way cheaper than domestic "Bits and
    Bites" ($3.79 for a mere 145 g) or Chex Mix. Not to mention way
    tastier. It's even better than peanuts and pretzels with cold beer.

    (I don't know of anyone making a wheatfree variety though.)

    Cheers

    Jim

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  • From Shawn Highfield@1:229/452 to JIM WELLER on Friday, April 29, 2022 12:38:04
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    Bites" ($3.79 for a mere 145 g) or Chex Mix. Not to mention way
    tastier. It's even better than peanuts and pretzels with cold beer.
    (I don't know of anyone making a wheatfree variety though.)

    There isn't any wheatfree versions. However I have had that in the
    past. Mainly at friends, or to eat when at work in the cab bit at
    a time.

    Shawn

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  • From JIM WELLER@1:135/392 to SHAWN HIGHFIELD on Friday, April 29, 2022 20:37:00
    Quoting Shawn Highfield to Jim Weller <=-

    (I don't know of anyone making a wheatfree variety though.)

    There isn't any wheatfree versions.

    You'd have to make your own from scratch: chickpea pretzel sticks,
    cornmeal puri and so on. A lot of work.

    --MM

    Chickpea Sev Strips - Gluten Free

    1 cup of besan/garbanzo bean flour
    2 tbsp of oil
    1/4 tsp of turmeric powder
    1/8 tsp of Asafoetida
    1/4 tsp of red chili powder
    1/2 tsp of baking powder
    1/4 tsp of ajwain/ Carom seed powder
    1/4 cup water
    salt to taste

    Heat oven to 355F or 180C or heat oil for deep-frying.

    Mix all the dry ingredients together well. Knead the flour to a nice
    dough using little water at a time. Let it rest for 5-10 minutes.

    If you have the sev maker, press the dough through the sev maker to
    form thin noodles strips and lay it on parchment paper to bake or
    deep fry the sev.

    If you do not have a sev maker then place the ball of dough
    in-between to parchment papers, roll the dough to a very thin layer.
    I used a pizza cutter to cut the dough into long strips. You can cut
    it in cracker shapes as well.

    Bake for 13-15 minutes till crisp. Let cool completely and enjoy it
    as a snack or mix it with roasted nut for extra flavor.

    Store in an airtight container for a couple of days.

    From: goanwiki.com

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    Cheers

    Jim


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