COOKING HOUR: Garlic bhel, Karnataka style street food

Wednesday, September 2, 2020

Garlic bhel, Karnataka style street food

Garlic bhel is a simple no cook snack with few ingredients yet spicy, with burst of flavour. Quick video for this quick to make snack.

I saw this in my Instagram feed and came to know such thing existed. Wish one day I could taste this (my list is going long in each state that too at this period of time) I wanted to try and when I searched Instagram only very few of the pictures were there. Then found this in Youtube and got an idea. Adapted it and incorporated few more ingredients as I saw in the picture.

The descriptions wrote the main flavour apart from the ingredient garlic is ghee. I was drooling as I read and bought this pack of pori when I went grocery shopping. When I was writing a rough ingredients for the recipe, realized no kara boondi. So made a very very small batch and did this today. Aj and Vj ate it without any complains. Aj wanted a sweet touch though.

I had no sweet chutney so added a dash of tomato chillis sauce and gave him. Thought I should have added a dash of sugar powder for that sweet touch. So included it as optional ingredient. If you feel it would be nice to add a sweet touch do add it. Also never skip or skimp on ghee. Just add it as it is main ingredient apart from garlic.

This have no connection with the north Indian Bhel puri so do not imagine something like that. This is pure Karnataka street food style ‘bhel puri with carrots’ type.

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Garlic bhel

Garlic bhel is a simple no cook snack with few ingredients yet spicy, with burst of flavour. Quick video for this quick to make snack Karnataka street food snack.

Course Snack

Cuisine Indian

Prep Time 20 minutes

Cook Time 0 minutes

Servings 3

Cup measurements

Ingredients

3 cups Puffed rice
5 garlic cloves
1/4 cup coconut
3 green chilles
1/4 tsp salt
2 tbsp ghee
3 tbsp Boondi
3 tbsp Sev
3 tbsp carrot
3 tbsp Coriander
2 tsp sugar powder optional

Instructions

Gather all the ingredients needed ready.
Place coconut, green chilli and garlic along with salt in a mixie. Grind it as smooth as possible. Do not add water.
Now in a mixing bowl, take pori (puffed rice). Add ghee to it and mix well to coat.
Add ground paste, kara boondi, sev and grated carrot, Finely chopped coriander leaves. Add sugar powder at this stage if you are adding.
Mix well and serve immediately.

Video

Notes

I used small variety Indian garlic.
Do not mix and keep, just do it when you are going to have.
Green chilli count can be adjusted as per your spice level.
never skip or skimp on ghee measurement. Always melt and add.

Garlic bhel method:

Gather all the ingredients needed ready.
Place coconut, green chilli and garlic along with salt in a mixie. Grind it as smooth as possible. Do not add water.
Now in a mixing bowl, take pori (puffed rice). Drizzle all the ghee to it and mix well to coat.
Add ground paste, kara boondi, sev and grated carrot, Finely chopped coriander leaves. Add sugar powder at this stage if you are adding.
Mix well and serve immediately.