today we're in Delhi India this is a city we love exploring it has so much
good street food
this video is going to be packed with street food
dishes that are unique to the city
tons of tasty eats
Delhi is a city that pulses with life it's loud it's colourful
and the street food culture is phenomenal this is our second video from
Delhi and we're eating some of the best food in Old Delhi we discover butter
chicken like you've never seen it before basted in spices and yogurt and cooked
over charcoal before being slathered in a spicy butter sauce the smoky juicy
buttery chicken is off the charts we join the crowds at a local favorite and
eat crispy kachori deep-fried pastry stuffed with lentils and spices
wallowing in fiery potato gravy we devour rice pudding at an Old Dehli
stalwart which has been serving up its popular dessert for over 140
years and sip on creamy hot milk amidst the beautiful chaos of the city
streets in this India series we'll show you some of the country's best food from
traditional Indian dishes to mind-blowing street food you don't want
to miss this series get ready for some mouth-watering food I'm Thomas I'm
Sheena and we're Chasing a Plate we hope you're hungry
let's eat
we are so happy to be in Delhi filming this video it's such a mad city there's so
much going on 29 million people live in Delhi so with that many people there's
always going to be a lot of food on offer so there's so much street food
here it's a wild city and we're filming this one in the heart of Old Delhi so
we're right in amongst the rabbit warren that is all the laneways of Old
Delhi and our first street food's right around the corner here
Old Delhi has a
ton of great street food it seems like every couple of steps there's something
delicious to eat but we want to show you the best street food in this area and
we've heard that this stall up ahead is really popular with the locals
they serve kachoris which are deep fried stuffed pastries and there's a tonne of people
crowded around the stall so let's go and order
there's not really a queue system what you've gotta do is just push
your way forward join the crowd get right in there thrust your money up I
think we're gonna order a full plate which comes with two kachoris and I think I see a bucket of aloo sabzi
which is like a potato stew
I've just fought my way out of the crowd and I've
got my bowl of kachoris this corner is absolute bedlam there are
scooters tooting honking trying to get past there's rickshaws
hand-drawn rickshaws
there's a crush of people and then all of this crowd who are battling to get their kachoris
what's neat about this stall is that they actually deep frying the kachoris right there so
they've got this huge wok which is full of oil and the kachoris are being cooked in
that so the kachori is the deep-fried pastry they're actually making them on site
as well so I can see him stuffing the dough with a filling and then chucking them into
the hot oil and then that guy over there namaste that guy over there is
doing the serving and taking the money man they're doing a brisk business
I think we should find try and find some sort of a quieter spot and enjoy
these kachori
we found a quiet little lane way to enjoy our kachori holy moly that was so
chaotic it was a crush of people everyone was so intent on getting their snack and then
you had all of the traffic rolling past people shouting the horns going it
was nuts but we've got our kachori and what it is is a deep-fried
pastry so I'm gonna try and lift it up and see oh gosh my kachori's gone rolling
see if I can show you so what he did with mine was he he grabbed a couple of
kachori and then he crushed them in his hand put them in this bowl and then
checked a ladle of the aloo sabzi over the top so like a spiced potato stew and
then he covered it with coriander also some green chilli and then I can also see
some flat discs of oh I thought actually this is a piece of the kachori I thought
there were extra crispy bits but no this is just the kachori and actually this is
the perfect piece because you can see inside that it's filled with a lentil
stuffing with a ton of spices the potato stew had a really runny consistency to
begin with but now it's gone all thick because it's soaked into that kachori so
let's just try and grab a big heaping mouthful look at that it's steaming
that's good
packed full of flavor quite spicy with chilli and the potato is very
creamy the pastry even though it's been sitting in that liquid from the
potato stew is still quite crunchy and it's flaky it's not oily or stodgy
it's actually quite dry
mmm quite salty very savoury, hearty food this is really good
I want to eat this crispy bit without any of the potato on it
the pastry is great very crispy and flaky the dish as a whole is very spicy so
it's a sharp spice it's covered my whole mouth it's really intense but very
good I can't stop eating
we're making our way on foot to our next stop so it's about a 20- 25 minute walk and
I love how in-your-face life is here in India I mean there is so much going on
in this street all these bikes loaded up with goods Sheena is about to get run
over by another bike it is so full on and it's very pretty as well because
this is a street of saree so there's tons of colour being sold in this street
I just love it here in India and can't wait to eat more food
our next street food is from a shop which is a bit of an institution here in
Delhi it's been around since 1880 and it sells kheer which is a rice pudding
and the walk to this shop has been packed with action so busy there's so much
going on so much life here on the street this is the little shop here so let's go and see
what they've got
we've heard your kheer is famous
swadisht it looks delicious
you've scooped them up all ready to go,
come come, oh thank you that's very kind
I love rice pudding so coming here for a shop a shop that's been here since
1880 serving one dish rice pudding I think that's crazy and it's a really
neat shop with a really lovely staff so they were showing us the rice pudding in
that tub up there but it's all pre-done so they've just
grabbed it out of the fridge and look at it it looks super super silky so the
look the grains of rice have almost disappeared I'm gonna get some of that
skin that's on top
Wow! Good? So good oh wow it's so good incredibly creamy
I think it's got cardamom in it but it's a tiny amount so really it tastes like a English rice
pudding so milk rice sugar very simple just cooked right down and it's super
creamy it's not like I said the grains of rice are not very big so you can see
just how silky and smooth it is
that's amazing very good rice pudding and I love this little shop
I mean 1880 that is incredible for one restaurant to keep going in the same
location serving the same dish unreal
you've probably noticed that we're visiting Dehli in the wintertime and I reckon it's the
perfect time to be here because the food lends itself to cold weather it's really
rich and hearty and full of flavour like stews and curries and whatnot this next
dish is actually gonna be perfect for this climate
it is butter chicken butter chicken was invented here in Delhi but it is not
the butter chicken that you're thinking of this is butter chicken like I've never
seen before and it is gonna be real good
so this is the chicken shop right here the famous place that does the butter
chicken assalamualaikum oh my gosh they actually start by roasting or
barbecuing the chicken over hot charcoal so it's very hot I can feel it and look
at the chicken it is so golden and crispy and then that guy over there he's
got big slabs of butter and he's actually heating or melting the butter
in that pot over the charcoal oh my gosh wow they've got this huge pile of
chicken over there like hundreds of pieces of chicken and what they're doing
is they're just chopping it up and then threading them onto those metal
skewers and popping them over the charcoal so it's meat which is on the bone
and the chicken looks like it's been marinated in maybe spices and
yogurt and whatnot the smell is insane I can't wait to eat this dish
so we ordered a whole butter chicken so a full portion and it comes with roomali
roti so really thin big roti shukriya
whoa check out this pile of chicken that has arrived in front of us
this my friends is buttered chicken check out all of that butter the rest of our food
has arrived so we've got a couple of really thin roomali roti to dunk
into that sauce and then also some fresh onion which is wallowing in a bit
of yogurt but this is the piece de resistance the butter chicken look at
that beautifully charcoaled blackened chicken which is wallowing in that puddle of
butter and this is served super no-frills style it's just in a
stainless steel bowl very simple it's the chicken in its sauce and this is so
different to what I think of when someone says butter chicken
if someones says let's go and order a butter chicken I think of the
Indian takeaway on the corner serving up a
butter chicken which is just chicken cooked in a cream and tomato based sauce
but this is wildly different and I would say that it's probably way more up my
alley then what I would usually think of when
I think of butter chicken so check this out I'm gonna grab this juicy
looking piece right here so it's chicken that's still on the bone which I really
love you can see that it's got blackened bits from being seared over that high
heat then I'm just gonna dunk it in that sauce
so much butter
oh my gosh
holy moly that is so good the chicken is so juicy and so full of flavor
hmm so it's marinated in yogurt and spices and butter and it's got such a rich flavor
that butter sauce is
insane oh my gosh
I've got butter running down my chin, it is smoky it is juicy
it's very savoury super rich
let's grab some of this roti and dip it into
this sauce whoa okay if you're on a diet
definitely don't be eating this because it is butter central I'm not complaining
this is right up my alley
that sauce is crazy good it is so rich and creamy from that yogurt
more chicken
I don't think I'll ever be able to go back to the other butter chicken this has ruined
me for life this is insane I've got a little drumstick here
the chicken has got so much flavour and it's very very tender cooking it
over that charcoal is genius because it adds so much depth to it and then you've got the
richness of the butter and then the yoghurt and the spices this is wildly good
back out onto the street and the next stop we're going to make is very close to the
to the chicken shop and that was pretty spicy actually like I'm really feeling
the spice there so we thought we'd get something sweet to finish that off and
you've got to check this out this is the biggest pot of milk I have
ever seen it's crazy namaste, namaste wow it's huge it's so big
wow can we get one hot milk look at this tub of hot milk that's sitting here over
fire just steaming away absolutely insanely big
we've grabbed the hot milk so it's just it is literally hot milk so that entire
tub is just heated milk but then they take it they add some sugar and they
stretch it from two different jugs and that creates the beautiful bubbles
on the top so you've got the beautiful bubbles on there and then you can see
some of the milk so he took some skin off that giant pot and just put
the skin on the top of the milk wow and it comes in this beautiful little clay
pot
I love how this is a thing in India it takes you straight back to your childhood if
you used to have hot milk before bed sweet creamy rich
oh this is very good
Wow oh very good hot milk and I love how big that pot is because that's a clear
sign that it's a very popular place so they could not sell all that if it
wasn't super popular so they're getting through that every night and wow it's
good and look at the environment we're in so right here on this crazy main road
sit down, have a hot milk it is unreal