Three Indian dishes to add to your food bucket list

Achyuta Ambal, Staff Writer

Chaat food is a great place to begin your Indian cuisine journey. Similar to hors d’oeuvres, it is often served from food stalls or food trucks in India. Street side stalls, like food trucks, are extremely clean, and the food they produce bursts with flavor, texture and culture similar. They are also inexpensive – you can get a four-person chaat meal for under a dollar on the streets of India, and you help the economy by supporting small businesses.

Today, my reviewer is sophomore Sawyer Ladd, hand-picked for this job for his unalterable pickiness with food. Ladd’s favorite foods include peanut butter and white bread and grapes, among other items.

Samosa Chaat

Achyuta Ambal, Staff Writer

South Asian Samosas usually consist of a potato or chickpea filling surrounded in a bread crust, and shaped like a triangle. The consistency of samosa chaat as a whole is similar to mashed potatoes. In this chaat, people rip up the samosa into little pieces in a cup, then cover it in a creamy chickpea curry. On top of this, traditional yogurt, a date chutney, and some sev, small pieces of crunchy noodles made of chickpea flour are added. On top of that, a couple...

Pani puri

Achyuta Ambal, Staff Writer

Pani Puri, also known as golgappa, is a hollow, crunchy shell which is then filled with a combination of seasoned potato filling and a mint, cilantro, green chili, ginger, cumin powder, tamarind and spicy masala liquid. Normally, this food has some sev, onions and tomatoes to spruce up the flavor and texture. When the dish is to be prepared for a special occasion, some people will put sprigs of coriander ...

Three Indian dishes to add to your food bucket list

Samosa Chaat

Pani puri

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