today we're in Delhi India we are so happy to be here because there is so much
incredible street food
this city has a phenomenal food culture we can't wait to share what we find with you
we're taking you into the heart of Delhi's food culture
winding our way through the alleys and laneways of Old Delhi to show you heritage
food vendors that are hundreds of years old we share with you traditional
Indian dishes and the street food that locals love to eat
this is our fifth video from Delhi watch out for crispy golden spicy fried
chicken from a local favorite and witness the spectacle of Indian street
side cooking at its finest
join us as we head into the suburbs of Delhi to a
neighborhood snack bar for sensational chaat and get sucked into the chaos of
Old Delhi on the hunt for delicious lentil fritters and a winter specialty
Shahi tukda India's answer to bread and butter pudding
in this 11 part India
series we'll show you some of the country's best food from unique dishes
dating back hundreds of years to irresistible street food you don't want
to miss this series get ready for some mouth-watering food
I'm Thomas and I'm Sheena
and we're Chasing a Plate we hope you're hungry let's eat
we've been in Delhi for a little over a week now and we've been filming some amazing
delicious food oh hey, we just walked past a cow, cows in India are sacred it
is very common to see cows just roaming the streets like here we're just
in a residential neighborhood so we've been zipping all around Delhi filming a
bunch of different foods the food scene here is so varied so diverse and today's
gonna be no different we're gonna be eating a bunch of delicious foods we're
off to find some chaat which are savoury snacks
this is the chaat shop that we want to visit this green one here and I can see
actually all of the chaat inside all of the different ingredients that
make up chaat when you order chaat it comes with maybe sometimes ten or
fifteen different ingredients it's always very delicious
namaste one bhalla papdi, yes,
dhannayavad
we can get up right close to the gentleman who's making the chaat he's got all
sorts of different ingredients we ordered a ballah papdi you can see
here some crispy fritters he's popped some rice krispies on top some lentils and
chickpeas
and then on goes that dahi or the curd the creamy yogurt wow looks
swadisht
pomegranate too
swadisht dhannyavad whoa look at this beautiful plate
of colour let's head over to this leaner and get into it
this ballah papdi is absolutely stunning I mean look at that for a plate of food chaat generally
in India is beautiful but this just takes the cake for me
it is so so pretty this stack of ingredients here and I really like the
stall this green really makes it stand out the guys sitting in the
window here crowds of people coming in and man alive
this looks so good so we've got a ton of stuff on here so the ballah papdi is the sort
of the two main ingredients it's just two separate words so under here is a
lentil ohh look at that it's been all crushed up so a lentil doughnut
basically and that's been crushed on and then we've got these crunchier bits so
they're basically just like a wheat chip a little deep fried crunchy chip
which are gonna soften up because they're covered in the curd and then in
the colour you can see in the curd so you've got the green and the brown so
that'll be a tamarind chutney the brown and probably a coriander chutney
the green then we've got these pomegranate seeds on here oh look there's
a chickpea these pomegranate seeds which are just the most stunning deep red colour
and oh there's a chilli there hanging out as well and then on the top here I
believe that's some ginger it looks like some freshly julienned ginger on top oh
man bit of everything
oh I'm covered in it
that is unbelievable
there's potato in there as well I got a little rice rice
puff like a rice crispy oh and that was one of the chips I had that was super
crunchy the yogurt's very fresh that's very cold the yogurt it's got some really
good spice chilli and he sprinkled other spices on there so it's got a lot
of levels of spice on and this pomegranate seeds just pop in your mouth let's get
some more with potato pomegranate seeds but particularly I want a bit with more
ginger I really wanna get that flavour
oh wow the ginger's a very mild flavour
actually so you're getting up a beautiful heat from the ginger but it's
not too overriding it's been cut very nice and thin eating chaat like this is
such a great experience and it's a real North Indian thing so what you find is
there's actually a lot of dishes and they often have the same ingredients
just things are a slightly different shape or the way they combine put the
combinations together slightly different so this restaurant does have a big menu
of different dishes they do this is their specialty so this is that the real
famous one but they do a number of different things you can see right here
in the window actually it's sort of all the different styles and these little
puris these are puffed ones whereas I've got flat ones in here so different
styles of the same thing and they combo them up and man the flavour is just
unreal
unbelievable and you'll find these little stalls all
over the city always snack style so stand up and
eat them quick eats, fun eats, texturally always
mixed up so lots of different textures and flavours going on so a quick hit of
great textures flavours it's a very cool stall wow
we caught the metro to another part of town we have come to Old Delhi I love
this part of town it's probably my favourite part of the city
it is a bustling area full of laneways there's always people rammed into the
laneways shopping and of course eating now I can see our stop up ahead
it is a tiny little hole in the wall selling pakoras or lentil fritters
there's a lot of people in front of it see what I mean? It is just it all go
let's see what they've got frying up
this stall is actually set quite far back into this area here they've got a big tray filled
with all these deep-fried goodies namaste
do you have any kalmi vada pakora? Perfect yes
please they've got all sorts of deep fried
snacks and the guy over there is actually he's not frying some at the
moment but he's got a big tub of hot oil and he'll be making the fritters and
popping them in there when this needs a top-up
I've got a bowl of deep-fried goodies in hand the stall is just over there
it's a really cute little stall the walls are sort of black from all of the
oil that's come up from the deep frying and whatnot it's got a ton of people
standing around it and I love how Old Delhi is just full of life it's really chaotic in
a really beautiful way and it's just constant, constant people walking past constant
bicycle rickshaws people carrying stuff on their heads so I'm just going to press
against the wall here and get into this bowl of treats so he gave me a real mix of
things this here is the pakora so the deep fried lentil fritter it's got some
leaves in it some spices and whatnot and then I think these are deep-fried
wedges of sweet potato some more lentil balls of some sort everything is in a
lentil batter they had a a big pot of the batter up the back there and it's
very golden yellow in colour and what he did was he sloshed a whole lot of green
chutney probably coriander chutney over the top let's just get into
this sort of chip here it's got some of that coriander chutney on it
I thought it was sweet potato but it's actually just normal potato very
creamy that lentil batter is quite thick and crunchy has a lot of substance
to it I really like that chutney it's got a great heat to it beautiful coriander
flavour
hmm this pakoda is covered in green chutney I'm gonna go for this one
it definitely needs the chutney because the fritter itself is quite dry but with
the chutney it's perfect you can taste a little bit of chilli in there I think the
green is a very mild green chilli
very savoury quite salty this is a great
set of little snacks we've got here and I just love the chaos so we've got
the bicycle rickshaw going past followed by the motorbike and then behind Thomas is
a guy with a massive stack of stuff on his head it's just chaos I love it
we're now wandering the streets of Old Delhi and it's just so full of life
it's such an incredible place to be I mean everywhere you look there's
something going on these guys are pushing a huge cart of flour or
something oh oh now I'm in everyone's way got some
guavas coming through I've lost track of Sheena, Sheena is stuck by a bike okay Sheena's
in the middle of the road I'm over here things are crazy crazy she's literally
stuck in the middle of the road come this way wow
so Old Delhi is just crazy it's so full on and it really makes you feel alive
because it's as a traveler it's just insane it's an amazing place to visit
with incredible food I love wandering these streets
this part of Old Delhi is a great part of town to sample Mughlai cuisine
the Mughal Empire actually ruled northern India from the early 16th
century right through to the late 18th century they were a Muslim dynasty and
obviously the food culture has retained to this day it's very meat heavy very
rich so all the biryani all the kebabs all the kormas and whatnot you can
sample all of those foods along this stretch now we're actually going to stop
at this place we have walked past it so many times and every time my mouth has
absolutely watered assalamualaikum my mouth has just watered because what
they serve is fried chicken assalamualaikum
and you can see here look at the fried chicken if you've subscribed to our Channel and if you've
watched our videos before you'll know that I'm an absolute fried chicken fiend I can't
resist it so today's the day tonight's the night look at all of that fried
chicken and all of the all these chicken pieces going into that hot oil
Wow
this spot is so cool so the restaurant is open and all of the cooking is taking
place at the front of the restaurant all out on the street facing the street and
it is all go they've got a huge pot of chicken which is marinating in a quite a thin
spiced filled marinade and then it's just going straight into that hot oil now they
only serve two things here oh three things they serve
fried chicken fried fish and rotii to go with it so we ordered half a fried chuck
look at it all on the bone just cut up and then we've got two really thin roomali
rotii to go with it look how paper thin that roti is and then
there's some sauce here for the chicken to be dunked into and then we've
got some fresh onion I'm gonna squeeze a ton of that lime onto that onion let's
get into this chicken I want to grab this drumstick here look at how crispy
it is and all of that spice which is coating that chicken I love how it's
just all on the bone I'm gonna dip it in that sauce that comes with it
holy moly that's good it is so tender and very juicy still
that chicken I love how the marinade is just crisped up enough it's not it's not a
batter it's just crispy on that skin it's got a great spice this
sauce is quite spicy so in chilli heat
I'm so happy to be getting a fried-chicken fix crunchy juicy tender
spicy oh this chicken is unbelievable
mmm this plate is gonna disappear very rapidly I reckon let's get a pile of
these fresh onions these are gonna be perfect actually
I love it cuts through
the richness of the fried chook refreshes your mouth and then you can dive
straight back in to that oily crispy delicious fried chook
fried chicken feast done now we are heading for some dessert and
dessert is literally right across the road which is very convenient system let'd just navigate our
way across the road so much tooting and honking now this is what we're after it
is called shahi tukda it's a traditional Indian sort of like a bread pudding
it's got loads of different ingredients and it looks so beautiful
how beautiful look at all that cream delicious
we've got the shahi tukda
and this is a very interesting dessert because it's a bread based
dessert they take bread and they deep-fry it in ghee and then they add a
whole lot of sugar syrup it's got cream all over the top dried fruit they
layer it all up and now he's just working it in this pan and he's scooping
this sugar syrup up on it breaking it down because it's hot that pan is
heated so he's just constantly moving it and making sure it doesn't stick
getting that sugar syrup all through it and look how beautiful it looks so you
got some cream on top really nice and hot oh it's swimming in that sugar syrup
Oh yum oh really good sweetness
the bread has taken on the the flavour of the
ghee as it's been fried so it's got a butteriness but then because there's so
much sugar syrup amongst the dish and being poured over it now there's this buttery
and sweetness you've got these clashing flavors and it's so good and that cream
on top just adds a whole other dimension and so does this dried fruit
I'm not actually sure what that red dried fruit is but adds a nice tanginess
to the dish I've just asked the guy what the fruit is and he said it's cherry so
that's why I'm getting that real um sort of a tanginess from it and there's
really big pieces
oh it's um
perfectly put together so it's got some spices in there as well
so everything going on in there is really great it's just a perfect
combination and I really love the stand it looks so beautiful sitting here
with all the red bits on top and the white cream in there very pretty to
look at as well what a thing to have this real prettiness in amongst all the
chaos they go together really well it's fantastic