Dabeli

Dabeli is like an Indian burger from Gujarath which is served as a snack and I can have it as a meal too . I never tasted it in India...After coming to US I tried it in couple of places...and just fell in love with this Dabeli. This week I prepared  Dabeli for dinner, so wanted to share this recipe in my blog. So here is the recipe.

Preparation time : 20 mins

Cooking time : 15 mins

Yeilds : 12 Dabeli

Ingredients

For potato stuffing :

Potatoes - 4 medium

Tomato - 1 big

Onion - 1 small

Dabeli masala - 3 tsp

Oil - 2 tbsp

Butter - 2 tbsp

salt - to taste

For Garnishing :

Pav bread - 12

Onion - 1 medium chopped

Thin sev - 1/2 cup

Masala peanut - 1 cup

Coriander leaves - 1/2 cup finely chopped

Dry coconut powder - 1/2 cup

Garlic chilli chutney - 1/4 cup

Meeta chutney - 1/4 cup

Butter - to toast pav

Method

Garlic Chutney

Remove seeds from around 20 red chillies. Soak them in water for an hour. Grind this soaked red chilli with 15 garlic cloves. Add salt while grinding. Add very little amout of water, the paste should be very thick. The lesser water is added more the shelf life of garlic chutney. This Chutney can be stored in refrigerator for few weeks.

Meeta Chutney

Soak around 10-12 dates in warm water for 30 mins. Remove the seeds if any. Grind this date with 1/8 cup of tamarind extract and 1/8 cup of jaggery. Grind into a fine paste. Boil this paste, Before switching off the stove add 1 tsp of fennel powder and jeera powder (roast it and make into a fine powder) add 1/2 tsp of black salt. Mix well , boil for a min. Switch off the stove. Once the chutney comes to room temperature. It can be transferred to an air tight container and can be stored in refrigerator for few weeks. 

Potato Masala

• Boil potatoes with skin in a pressure cooker for 2-3 whistles.
• Peel the skin off and mash it well.
• Take oil and butter in a pan.
• When it is hot add the chopped onion
• When it is half done add 2 tsp of Dabeli masala
• Saute it, add chopped tomatoes and 1/2 tsp of salt. Saute well.
• When tomatoes are cooked  add mashed potatoes.
• Add 1 tsp of dabeli masala and required amount of salt, mix well.
• Cook for about 3-4 mins and transfer into a big plate of big bowl.

                                                          Spread masala peanut over it.

                                                         Spread dry coconut powder over it.

                                                                  Spread sev over it.

                                                                    

                                                            Spread cilantro over it.

Make a slit in the pav (don't make into two pieces). Refer the picture above. Warm bread a bit (just to soften it). Or else it can be toasted with little butter. Then spread Meeta chutney inside the pav bread.

                                              Spread garlic chutney over the meeta chutney.

                        Take a spoon of the potato stuffing and stuff it inside the pav bread. 

                           Then Garnish it with onion, sev, masala peanut. Serve immediately.

I had Pita bread too in my refrigerator. So thought how will it taste if I stuff it inside the pita pocket. Believe me taste was awesome. Than pav bread I loved it with pita bread. Instead of pav bread or pita bread burger bun can also be used to prepare Dabeli. Each one will give unique taste. Try it out, definitely u will fall in love with this Dabeli.

Pita Dabeli

   
                                                            The Pita bread packet

                                             The Pita bread. This is the whole wheat pita bread.

                                            It can be cut into 2 equal halves or 4 quarters.

          There will be a pocket inside where we can stuff the dabeli masala or any other stuffing we like.

                                                                     Pita Dabeli