Dabeli Recipe | Kacchi Dabeli | Gujarati Snack Recipes

Dabeli or Kutchi dabeli or Kacchi dabeli is  one of the most popular snack recipes of India, originating in the Kutch or Kachchh region of Gujarat. It is a spicy snack made by mixing boiled potatoes with dabeli masala powder, and putting the mixture between pav (burger bun) greased with chutneys made from tamarind, dates, garlic, red chillies, etc. It is garnished with pomegranate and roasted peanuts ( Source: Wikipedia).

Dabeli is also a very popular street food of Mumbai, Maharashtra. I had some burger buns lying in my pantry for long time. Actually I bought them to make Aloo tikki burger but I couldn’t do it. So I was looking for some recipes that uses burger buns to finish them off. I came across this most popular Street food Dabeli recipe in this blog. She had explained it so well including the making of dabeli masala powder recipe, Red chutney/lasun chutney (Garlic chutney) and potato masala with stepwise pictures. 

Luckily I had all the ingredients available in hand. I just followed her recipe to the T and made tamarind chutney alone on my own as it was missing in her post. I made it for our dinner yesterday & It was awesome. Though it’s a time consuming process, I was happy and satisfied that I tried a good chaat recipe after a long time. Lets see how to make this popular Kacchi dabeli recipe at home !

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Dabeli Recipe/Kacchi dabeli

Dabeli/Kacchi dabeli recipe - Most popular Gujarati snack using burger buns. 

Cuisine: North Indian

Category: Chaat Recipes

Serves: 3

Prep time: 30 Minutes

Cook time: 10 Minutes

Total time: 40 Minutes

INGREDIENTS

Burger buns or Pav buns - 6 nos For potato masala Boiled potatoes - 2 nos ( big) Big onion - 1 no Tomato - 1 no **Dabeli masala powder - 1 tbsp Coriander leaves - to garnish Salt & water - as needed Lemon juice - few drops Grated coconut – 2 tbsp ( to garnish) Dabeli masala powder Dhania/Coriander seeds - 2 tbsp Cumin seeds/Jeera - 1 tbsp Red chillies - 4 nos Cloves - 4 nos Cinnamon - 2 inch For peanut mix Roasted peanuts - 1/2 cup Red chilli powder - 1 tsp Asafetida/Hing - a big pinch Salt - as needed For red chutney/Garlic chutney Garlic - 15 cloves Red chillies - 4 nos ( soak in water Lemon juice - as needed Water - little Salt - as required For Sweet chutney/Tamarind chutney Tamarind - Big gooseberry size Dates - 4 nos Red chilli powder - 1/2 tsp Cumin powder - 1/2 tsp Salt - as needed Water - little To garnish Pomegranate seeds - a handful Sev/Omapodi - as needed

HOW TO MAKE DABELI - METHOD

Soak the red chillies in little water for grinding red chutney. Soak tamarind and dates together in some water for sweet chutney. Wash and pressure cook the potatoes. In the mean time, dry roast all the ingredients given under “Dabeli masala powder”. Roast them until you get a nice aroma of dhania and other spices. Grind them to a powder & keep apart. Roast the peanuts, remove the skin. Heat little oil and add the roasted peanuts. Add red chilli powder, hing and salt (I roasted my peanuts in microwave for 3 minutes in high power(800W) and proceeded in the kadai). Chop onion and tomato. Heat oil in a kadai and add the onions.Saute until transparent. Then add tomatoes and saute until it becomes mushy. Add the dabeli masala powder, salt and turmeric powder. Saute them and lastly add the mashed potatoes. Mix well and add little water if you feel the mixture is too dry. Let it become a dough like thing. Sprinkle some lemon juice and garnish with coriander leaves. Remove them in a plate. Add some grated coconut over the potato masala and sprinkle some pomegranate seeds & roasted peanut mix. Now make the red chutney by grinding garlic, soaked red chillies, salt & lemon juice. Grind it to a smooth paste adding little water. Remove in a bowl. Grind the soaked dates, tamarind along with red chilli powder, cumin powder and salt to a smooth paste. Remove in a bowl. Take a burger bun or pav bun and slit into two. Toast them in a tawa adding butter or oil. Apply garlic chutney on one side and sweet chutney on the other side. Spread the potato masala over the sweet chutney. Garnish with roasted peanuts, pomegranate seeds and sev. Close the bun and serve ! Enjoy !

Note

Add more red chillies to garlic chutney if you want spicy ones. Adjust the quantity of chilli powder, dates & tamarind as per your taste. Add more dates if you want sweet taste. Do not skip pomegranate seeds. It gives a crunchy taste while eating.

Try this popular street food at home and enjoy !

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