Sev puri - Basket chaat

Basket chat is a long awaited chat that I have been wanting to try. And its our princess 3rd birthday party today. So I did this as a starter, and it was such a hit! Well I got such appreciation and everyone were thankful for preparing this. This is light to start with, and am sure this will be a hit the first time you prepare!

You need


Tostito's Corn scoops - as required
1 cup boiled and mashed potato
1/2 cup finely chopped onion
1/2 cup finely chopped tomato
1/4 cup Green chutney
1/2 cup Tamarind Chutney
1/2 cup plain yogurt (beaten)  - Add pinch of salt and a tsp of sugar
1/2 cup fine sev
2 tbsp chat masala
1 tsp red chili powder
2 tsp Coriander powder
2 tsp Cumin powder
Salt to taste
Cilantro for garnishing, finely chopped

Take serving plates. Place 7-10 (as per the plate size) corn scoops in each plate. Fill each scoop with little boiled potato followed by onion and tomatoes. Sprinkle salt, cumin powder, coriander powder and chat masala. Add green chutney and tamarind chutney (since I like it spicy, and I prepare the green chutney very spicy - so I prefer only green chutney) to taste.

Then top it with little yogurt. Sprinkle very little chili powder. Garnish with cilantro and sev.
Taste one scoop and sprinkle little salt if required.

Tips:
Add the wet ingredients just before serving, otherwise the crispness in the scoops goes off. You can always change the dry ingredients sequence, but it should be added first.

Prepare and enjoy the chunky chat before your meal!

I am sending this recipe for the kids delight event hosted by Srivalli

and to Archana for "Fast Food and Fat Food"

Madras Mixture

Mixture is a very nice snack, although it is quite time consuming. We prepare this for every Diwali and keep for almost couple of months.

Prep Time 30 mins

cook'g time 75 mins

Ingredients

Red chillies - 15 to 25 (15 for more heat, and 25 for HOT)

pea nuts - 1 cup

Curry leaves - 3 bunches

Cashew - 1/4 cup

Bengal gram - 1/2 cup (optional - I do not like this)

for boondhi

Gram flour - 2cups

oil - 1/4 kg

Salt - 1 tsb

Water 2 cups

Perforated spoon

for murukku

2cups Rice flour

1/2cup Gram flour

2tsp moong dhal flour

2tsp Butter

2tsp Cumin seeds + sesame seeds

1+1/2tsp Red chilly powder

Oil

Salt

for sev

Gram flour - 2cups

oil - 1/4 kg

Salt - 1 tsb

Water 1 cups

Sev press

Boondhi

1. Take 2 glasses of gram flour, and add 2 cups of water and mix it well until there

are no dumplings.

2. Add half a table spoon of salt. And mix it well. The batter should be slightly

thinner to the Idli batter.

3. It is very important to use a perforated spoon. The holes should not be too big

or too small.

4. Heat oil in a wide pan until smoky.

5. Hold the spoon 1 inch above the oil and pour some batter on the spoon. Tap very

lightly at edge of spoon to allow small droplets to fall in the oil. (If the

batter is watery, then the it will not fall as balls or if the batter is not

falling through the spoon then add little water to the boondi to fall down in

round shape)

6. Keep adding the boondi in oil until the pan is entirely filled.

7. Stir the boondis in the oil gently and fry till crisp but not brown. Drain and

Keep it aside.

8. Repeat this until you finish with the entire batter.

Sev

1. Mix the gram flour and water by adding salt. The batter should be gooey sticky dough.

2. Grease hands with some oil for ease in handling dough. Grease the inside cylinder of press.

Fill with dough and screw the top tight.

3. Heat oil in heavy large frying pan. Hold the press about 8 inches above the hot oil. When it is hot, proceed to press and drop the dough through the press.

Move your hands in circular motion to make a circle and keep coming in to

form smaller circles and finish off when you come to center. You may cut off the dough with your fingers.

4. Cook for about a minute or so. Then carefully flip over the sev with a fork. Cook another minute, do not allow to become golden. Remove the sev when it still looks undone and whitish. Place on kitchen paper to drain and cool.

5. Repeat till all the dough is used up.

Store as is, or crush to small pieces.

Store in an air tight container.

Mullu Murukku

1. Mix all the ingredients above and add water untill becomes soft dough, it might be bit sticky, grease ur palms to avoid stickiness..

2. Use the murukku press with star nozzle.. heat the oil for deepfrying, meanwhile take a small portion from dough n squeeze out over a greased plate in circular shape

3. drop the murukku in the medium hot oil n fry on both sides until they turns brown, drain the excess of oil with paper towel.

4.Now, brake murukkus into small ones, and mix with bondhi and sev. Fry the red chillies and grind to soft powder, add salt, asafoetida, and add to the above mixture.

5.Fry the curry leaves, cashew and pea nuts separately until crispy and add to the mixture.

6. Store in a air tight container and served for more than a month.

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