Street Food Series: Papdi Pizza Recipe

Papdi Chat has always been my favourite starter/snack, I have tasted this dish multiple times during my visit to Mumbai and at various buffet restaurants. Anyone travelling to Mumbai must explore street food there its truly one-of-a-kind experience.

Ingredients:
4 to 5 Papdis 
1/4 Cup Pizza Sauce (follow my instant pizza sauce recipe)
1/2 Cup Bell Pepper (finely chopped capsicum)
1/4 Cup Drained Black Olives (Optional)
1/4 Cup Peas and Sweet Corn (Steam Cooked)
1/2 Onion (finely chopped)
1/2 Tomato (finely chopped)
5 Sprigs Coriander (finely chopped)
1/4 Cup Kara Sev
1/4 Cup Grated Cheddar Cheese
Chilly Flakes and Pizza Seasoning for garnish...

Follow my recipe for Papdi

Instant Pizza Sauce Recipe

Ingredients: 
1/4 Cup Pizza Sauce
1/2 Onion (finely chopped)
3 Pods Garlic (finely chopped)
1/4 Tsp Pizza Seasoning
1 Tbsp Butter 
1/4 Cup Warm Water

Method:
Heat a heavy pan on medium flame with butter before the butter melts and starts to burn add garlic and onion fry both the ingredients on low flame till onion turn transparent.

We can add warm water to cook the onions well. Once the water reduced and onions have cooked add the tomato ketchup and pizza seasoning stir well allow to cook for 30 seconds and remove from flame reserve in a bowl.

This pizza sauce is instant and can be used in many recipes like bread pizza or serve as a condiment for cheese balls. To prepare pizza sauce in bulk follow my recipe pizza/pasta-sauce-my-way.

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Lets assemble...

Method:

To enhance the flavor I have lined my plate with plantain leaf its optional . Start placing the papdi take a spoon full of pasta sauce and smear on papdi.

Top the papdi with chopped capsicum, steam cooked veggies, onion, tomato, grated cheese and kara sev garnish with olives and chopped coriander...serve right away...Enjoy!

Pre-planning is very important to prepare any chaat always have all the ingredients prepped two days ahead of time like papdi, pizza sauce and also grate cheese and reserve in airtight container, steam cook veggies and refrigerate. Just before assembly we can chop and prep all the veggies...reheat sauce and steamed veggies in microwave.