Dabali with Twist

Served Dabali in Puff Pastry!!!

Mumbai's popular street food, Dabeli is quite easy to make at home. The homemade version has an enhanced taste and is healthier as well!

Dabeli is like a sandwich where stuffing is spicy potato mixture with different chutneys, sev, peanuts and pomegranate seeds.

Learn to make this tasty and delicious Dabeli right from scratch

Ingredients

For Potato filling

4 boiled potatoes, grated

4 tbsp oil

1 tsp Jeera/Cumin

1 tsp Pavbhaji masala

1 tsp Dabeli masala

6 tbsp sweet chatni

2 tbsp Green chatni

2 Puff pastry sheets

2-3 sppons of Green chatni

2-3 spoons of Meethi chatni

1/2 cup Masala peanuts, Crushed coarsely

For garnishing

Chopped cilantro, Green chilies, chopped onions, and Nylon Sev

Method:

For Filling:

In hot oil, add Jeera/Cumin and let it crackle add dabeli masala and Pavbhaji masala. Stir than add grated, boiled potatoes and sweet chatni and continue to stir and cook. Add Green chatni, turn off gas and remove.

For Assembling:

Thaw puff pastry as per directions on box. Use one sheet and keep other in refrigerator, till needed.

Preheat oven to 400 F or whatever are the directions on the box of puff pastry.

On parchment paper, put the pastry, put water in cracks and roll a little with rolling pin and cut in to shape you like, I have cut here in flower shape.

Spread Green chatni, Spread Meethi chatni, spread prepared Potatoes stuffing

Sprinkle Masala peanut. Roll the puff pastry as tightly as possible. Brush with milk or egg (I have used milk) and bake on a well-oiled baking sheet till golden brown.

Serve topped with chopped onions, cilantro green chilies, more chopped peanuts and sev.

For freezing for later use

Spread pieces on a plate and put in freezer for some time. Once the pieces are firm, put in a container, spread wax paper and you can layer a second layer of dabeli twists on top. When ready to use frozen Dabeli twists, place on a well-oiled baking sheet, and bake at 400 F till golden brown.

Serve topped with chopped onions, cilantro green chilies, more chopped peanuts and sev.

Notes:

Always work with cold pastry, if it has been lying out for some time, put it in the fridge or freezer for 10-15 minutes.

We also can pre bake pastry and add stuffing when time to serve.