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Mumbai's famous street food - sukha bhel
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Sukha bhel recipe – One of the most popular Indian street food from Mumbai. Easy and quick to make, a much simpler version of bhel puri. This is prepared without any watery chutneys, so it stays dry and crispy. Because of that it is called dry bhel or sukha bhel.


Ingredients
For sukhi chutney
¼ cup Mint leaves loosely packed
¼ cup Cilantro or coriander leaves loosely packed
1 small or to taste Green chili
1 tablespoon Roasted chana dal (Fried gram or daria, dalia)
½ teaspoon Lemon juice
⅛ teaspoon Black salt (Kala namak)
For dry bhel:
1 ½ cups Murmura (puffed rice or mamra)
½ cup Thin nylon sev
4-5 pieces Papdi roughly broken into small
2 tablespoons Peanuts roasted
2-3 tablespoons Tomato chopped finely
2-3 tablespoons Onion chopped finely
2-3 tablespoons Potatoes boiled, peeled and chopped, optional
1 tablespoon Raw mango (Unripe mango) chopped finely
Salt - to taste
¼ teaspoon Red chili powder
¼ teaspoon Black salt (Kala namak)
¼ teaspoon Roasted cumin powder
½ teaspoon Chaat masala
1 teaspoon Lemon juice
Instructions
Making sukhi chutney:
Take all the chutney ingredients in a grinder jar. DO NOT ADD any water.
Grind it into a coarse paste. Keep it aside.
Making sukha bhel recipe:
Take murmura, sev and papdi in a bowl.
Using your hand, break the papdis in small pieces. Roughly mix it.
Now add roasted peanuts, chopped tomato, onion, potato and raw mango.
Sprinkle red chili powder, black salt, regular salt if needed, chaat masala and roasted cumin powder.
Now add semi-dry chutney. If there are big lumps of chutney then break it using your fingers. It be easy to mix later on.
Squeeze the fresh lemon juice.
Toss everything together till well combined.
Remove it to a serving bowl, garnish with one or two papdi on side

Basically there are two versions when it comes to bhel puri:

Geela bhel aka bhel puri – for making this, green coriander chutney and tamarind date chutney are added. These chutneys make it wet meaning geela.
Sukha bhel – no wet or watery chutney used for making this. In the absence these chutneys, to give chatpata taste, spice powders like chaat masala and lemon juice and raw mangoes are added.

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