Aloo (Potato) Peas Puff

Aloo Puff is a popular tea time snack and weekend breakfast delicacy in India. It’s a flaky, light pastry stuffed with a savory filling. You need good quality pastry sheets to make puffs lighter and perfectly layered that form nice air pockets after baking. I couldn’t help applying a fundamental software development principle of ‘Don’t…

Egg Bhurji (Street Side Recipe)

Egg Bhurji is an Indian-styled scrambled eggs prepared with salted butter, onion, tomatoes and Indian spices. It’s a popular street-side late-night snack or a meal. Indian white bread known as ‘Pav’ goes really well with the bhurji. It’s a common brunch option in non-veg or eggetarian families. INGREDIENTS 8 organic cage-free eggs. 2 (US sized)…

Canapé Corn Chaat

Canapés are baked in tiny cups made out of refined flour. Canapés chaat is one of my favorite finger foods. It’s difficult to find fine crispy canapé cups in the bay area, I have tried to use baked phyllo shells, but they are not crispy enough. To make them crispy, I baked them for 6…

Hurda, tender green sorghum millet (Jowar) snack

Roasted tender green sorghum millet is also known as “hurda” in Maharashtra and Ponk in Surat, Gujarat. It’s available during the wintertime. The millet is charcoal roasted and beaten out from the soft shelling. You can find this in the frozen section at most of the Indian grocery stores. The millets are also dried and…