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How To Make Dabeli
Dabeli is a popular Indian street food common in cities like Mumbai. This masala-seasoned, potato-filled dish is served with red-garlic chutney.
Prep:
1 hr
Cook:
20 mins
Total:
1 hr 20 mins
Ingredients
For Dabeli Masala:
- 1 dry red chili
- 1 tsp coriander seeds, or coriander powder
- cinnamon stick, ½ inch
- 3 garlic cloves
- ½ tsp cumin seeds
For Red Garlic Chutney:
- 2 red chilies, soaked in warm water for 30-40 minutes
- ½ cup garlic, (lahsun), chopped
- ½ tbsp lemon juice
- salt, to taste
For Dabeli Potato Filling:
- 3 potatoes, medium sized, boiled, peeled and mashed
- 1 onion, small, finely chopped
- 2 tsp dabeli masala
- asafoetida, (hing), 1 pinch
- ½ tsp cumin
- 2 tbsp tamarind dates chutney
- ¼ cup coconut, grated
- ¼ cup pomegranate seeds
- ¼ cup coriander leaves, (cilantro leaves), chopped
- 2 tbsp oil
- 2 tbsp water, (optional)
- salt
For Serving Dabeli:
- 5 buns, or pav sliced and lightly roasted in some butter or oil
- ½ cup roasted peanuts
- ½ cup coriander leaves
- ½ cup nylon sev
- ½ cup pomegranate seeds
- garlic chutney, as required
- sweet tamarind dates chutney, as required
Instructions
Dabeli Masala Powder:
- Dry roast the red chili, cumin, cloves, cinnamon and coriander seeds.
- Add all the ingredients in a dry grinder.
- Grind to a fine powder. keep aside.
Red Garlic Chutney:
- In a wet grinder or blender, grind the soaked red chilies, garlic, lemon juice and salt to a smooth paste.
- Add water if required. Keep aside.
Dabeli Potato Filling:
- Boil the potatoes in a pressure cooker or microwave oven.
- Peel and mash them and keep aside.
- In a pan or kadai, heat oil. Add cumin.
- Then add chopped onion and fry the onions till they become soft.
- Add asafoetida/hing and fry for a minute on a low flame.
- Add the sweet tamarind dates chutney to the onions and mix well.
- Add the mashed potatoes and again mix well.
- Add the dabeli masala powder to the mashed potatoes. Mix well and add salt.
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Cook for 2 to 3 minutes stirring the mixture.
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If the mixture looks a little dry then add 1 or 2 tablespoon of water. When done, spread the potato filling on a plate.
- Sprinkle some grated coconut on the potato filling.
- Add some chopped coriander on top.
- Now add pomegranate seeds or grapes or both. Keep the potato stuffing aside.
Assemble:
- Assemble all the ingredients mentioned under serving in one place.
- Apply the sweet chutney on one slice of the bun and the red garlic chutney on the other side.
- Take a slice of the potato filling and put it on top of one of the slices of bread.
- Add some chopped onion and coriander leaves.
- Top it up with some roasted peanuts and pomegranate seeds.
- Sprinkle some dabeli masala also. Lastly top it with sev.
- Cover with the other slice of bread.
- Prepare the remaining dabeli pav in the same way and serve warm.
Nutrition
- Sugar: 8g
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- Calcium: 126mg
- Calories: 358kcal
- Carbohydrates: 51g
- Fat: 14g
- Fiber: 6g
- Iron: 3mg
- Monounsaturated Fat: 6g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 4g
- Potassium: 797mg
- Protein: 11g
- Saturated Fat: 3g
- Sodium: 246mg
- Trans Fat: 1g
- Vitamin A: 286IU
- Vitamin C: 52mg
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