we're in Mumbai, India this place is street food paradise so we're taking you
on a massive street food tour today
we're hunting down Mumbai's best street
food in some local neighborhoods to bring you some mouth-watering Indian
food, we're going to be exploring six delicious foods in this video so make
sure you watch right to the end to get a good look at the best street food
Mumbai has to offer
I'm Thomas andI'm Sheena and we're Chasing a Plate we
hope you're hungry, let's eat!
our first street food snack
for this video is sev puri and it is such a pretty dish so they start with
these little puris which are like a fried bread chip they lay them on the
plate then they dump a whole lot of just
boiled potato crushed up boiled potato on top and then it has a number of
things on top of that so there's some chutney erm I think some green and red chutney
there's some brown sauce which could be a tamarind sauce, there's a bunch of
these sev crispy chickpea flour little crispy things on top, there's a ton of
coriander and also some red onions in there as well, let's pick one of these up
in its entirety
mmmm, oh, mmm
wow that puri, is super crunchy and then the potato's very soft obviously but the the
main flavor is the spice mix, I saw him shake over just a bunch of spices so it's got a little bit
of chili heat but really it's just a nice rounded flavor, I'm gonna grab
another one, oh you can see there I've just broken it up, so you can see that potato
and the onion and that red chutney on there just pick that up oh yeah
mmm mmm wow it is very, very good and it does have a bit of a sourness or a tanginess so I think that was
some tamarind chutney or tamarind water on there that is really good
these are a great way to start this street food tour, I love all the textures in
this so the puri on the bottom- super crunchy
then you've got that creamy potato and the fresh crunch of the onions it is a really good
start
our next stop is a restaurant that specializes in food from Maharashtra
which is the state that Mumbai is in so let's go and see what they've got
we've ordered a couple of popular snacks so the first one here is called misal
and it's made up of a spicy curry which has got lots of
sprouted lentils inside, then there's heaps and heaps of these crunchy bits on
top some chopped red onion, coriander and some lime on the side to give it a bit
of zing
this here is sabudana puri and they look
like puffy clouds, these white bits on the outside are sago and inside we've got
a potato mixture I believe and then to wash it all down we've got a creamy
glass of saffron flavored buttermilk
I'm gonna give this misal a huge
mix-up look at that there's all these goodies down there hiding underneath so
there's I can see some crispy lentils some I think coconut and all sorts all
right let's get a big spoon
mmmm, mmmmm that's delicious
this is a really popular breakfast dish and it is just so full of flavor
the texture is incredible so you've got
those crispy bits from I think they might be chickpea flour noodles, then you've got the crunch of the onions
and then it's quite spicy so the sprouted lentils have a lot of bite and then it's just a really
spicy mixture
I really want to break into one of these sabudana puri they
just look like puffy clouds whoa, look at that, whoa
so I thought that this was filled with potato but it's not
it's actually all just sago and then in the batter there's
some cumin seeds as well and then we've got this uh this coconut chutney
rather to drizzle all over the top so let's just get a bite of this
oh it's so interesting, it looks like it's got a great texture, and then a little bit of
that coconut chutney
mmmm, mmmm
the overwhelming flavor is cumin
it's got a really crispy shell on the outside where the sago has hit that
hot oil and then the inside is really gooey, really
mushy, the coconut chutney is really creamy and has a tiny bit of a kick of chilli, so
cumin, chilli, squishy sago, that's really interesting and it's very tasty
back to this misal, I've poured all of it onto the plate so that I can mix it up
and get a really good spoonful, okay
mmmmm, man, that is just so flavoursome,
you can really taste the spices so you can taste cumin, you can taste mustard seed, there's a bit of chilli in
there and then the texture is just awesome, crunch, zing from the onions, so good
I really want to try this piyush which is saffron flavoured buttermilk so let's give it a go
whoa, that is amazing, it's very sweet and it's super creamy that is the perfect thing to wash all of this down
we're back out on the streets for our next snack, now we're gonna grab a dosa
we've got a Jini dosa and this thing looks crazy good
so the dosa base is a fermented rice flour crepe or pancake basically and
that was put on the hot plate which is cooking right over charcoals and then he
added a bunch of things so I saw red onion, capsicum, paneer, a bunch of sauce and
spices and they put like a little stainless steel hood over that to cook
down all those vegetables and once they were cooked
they whipped the hood off added even more sauces and spices grabbed a potato
masher and just squished all those vegetables so they went down to a very
fine liquid-y texture once that was done it was all about cheese he grabbed a
huge block of cheese and grated it all over the dosa then it was cut into
strips rolled and now here it is standing on the plate ready to go with a
couple of chutneys so it looks like a coconut chutney with mustard seeds and a
coriander chutney I want to grab this piece because this is the middle piece and
look how much goodness it's got in it, oh and the spring onions that they dumped on
top so the green spring onions all in there, I want to dip it in this green
chutney this is really hefty, this piece has a lot of weight
whoa whoa whoa whoa the cheese is good and creamy ohhh it's
got a real, real sharp spice like a Szechuan pepper whoa
so I think that's got like a Chinese Sichuan sauce on it or dry, dry spice
Wow let's dip it in the coconut chutney
oh yes all right
oh damn it's so good even though he mushed those vegetables they
still actually have size they're not all completely mushed so there's crunch from
the from the peppers or the capsicums and then there's crunch from the fresh
spring onion, slight bit of tanginess or zinginess from the fermentation on the on the
batter for the dosa wow that's a good mouthful
what I love in India is this
eating on the street so you order this from the street cart, you stand with your
plate right on the road, wolf it down, everyone stands around, the tuk tuks are
hooning past, beeping it's just chaos and the food is so good, it's so fresh ohhh India the food here is amazing
we're waiting for our next snack and that's a dabeli
this is the dabeli and boy does it look good, check it out, so it's a toasted pao or
white roll and then inside it's stuffed with this potato mixture that's been
mashed down and mixed with lots of different chutneys so tamarind chutney,
date chutney and then we've got some chopped red onions, some coriander, some
roasted peanuts and then also some sev which is like the crispy chickpea
noodles and then we've also got some peanuts and sev on the side, let's just
give this thing a taste
mmmm that bun is so crispy and light it's cooked or heated on the hot plate and then that mixture
it's like tangy, it's savoury from the potato but it's also super
sweet from the tamarind and date chutney, I really am loving these peanuts so they've
been roasted and then just covered in salt and chilli so they're really spicy
and they add a real texture to the dabeli
mmmm it's so good, it's savoury, it's sour, this is the perfect street snack and you can tell how
popular the stand is, there are a ton of people waiting for their dabeli and it's
really neat because you can watch the guys make it so they've got this huge
pan of the potato and chutney mixture and they just scoop it up into those
rolls which are toasting on the tawa or the hot plate and then just dumping them
on these great little pieces of paper, with a load of peanuts and sev and then serving it to their customers
what better way to cool off here in Mumbai than with a lassi which is a yogurt based
drink
I got the cool beautiful lassi in my hand and wow does it look good so we
ordered the special version so it's a yogurt drink so some yogurt with a
little bit of water in it to thin it down and we have a plain lassi so just a
sugar lassi but the special thing about it, is this malai on top which is
basically just cream so dairy cream and then it looks like some almonds on top
of that look, but look at that skin on top so that amazing cream just hanging off the sides
so let's just push that oh my god oh and look at the thin lassi underneath just
bulging out oh my god okay spoon up
Wow oh it's really sweet, so it just tastes like really sweetened plain
yogurt so really thin and really sweet but I didn't get any of that skin so it
looks like also a bunch of almonds on there, let's just dive in there, oh my god it's
going everywhere, all right I've got a whole lot of that cream
Wow, wow so the almonds were a little bit crunchy but it's so sweet that I
couldn't taste the nuts at all wow it's sweet but it's so refreshing
it's creamy obviously, that malai or that cream on top just adds next level of
creaminess, super refreshing, let's push the rest of that cream in there look
how thick it is, I want another big spoon of that
oh man I'm gonna drink some of the
liquid
mmm whoa all the chunks of cream have like dispersed through the liquid, super
sour so it's really sweet but it's also holding some of its
sourness so it's just a very simple yogurt drink and that is so refreshing
when you're standing here on the hot streets of Mumbai
another massive and incredible food day here in Mumbai and we've got another
four weeks in India food adventuring in Chennai, Indore, Bhopal so make sure you
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