Chotpoti and Fuchka , The most popular Street Food in Bangladesh

Nothing may be additional fashionable in East Pakistan than chotpoti and fuchka!!! Be it winter or summer. uninteresting or bright day , whether or not you're in sensible or dangerous mood , it's chotpoti and fuchka that creates your day !! 😀

Chotpoti:

Part A :

1 and one/2 cup of white vatana or white peas , soaked in water long with 1/2 tea spoon bicarbonate

Part B:

1 tbl spoon – one and one/2 tbl spoon Chat Masala

1 and one/2 tea spoon dry cooked cumin powder ( bhaja jeera gura )

1 tea spoon coarsly grounded gently cooked whole coriander powder ( asto dhonia gura )

3/4 or around a pair of tea spoon dry cooked dry red flavoring ( you'll be able to add additional , reckoning on your taste)

1 tea spoon halite ( bit lobon)

Salt to style

Part C:

Boiled a pair of potatoes, cut in tiny cubes

2 cooked eggs , cut in tiny cubes

Onion cut

Mint cut

green chilies cut

Cucumber cut

Crushed Fuchka shell or something fresh

Tamarind water or tetuler tok

For tamarind water , soak the tamarind in water . Then confiscate the starch from it . Add dry cooked cumin powder , salt , dry cooked dry red flavoring, very little sugar or sugar , cut cilantro .

Procedure:

1. Soak the chotpoti daal in water long with bicarbonate . bicarbonate helps to melt daal simply . Bt if you've got sensible quality daal , you'll be able to skip that half . however don’t forget to soak in water .This is should . Wash the daal cery well .

2. Boil the daal till creamy, very little mushy . If your daal isn't creamy , chotpoti won’t style higher . Not solely cooked , you would like to own the thickness and starch popping out from daal . Don’t add salt at now because it prevents the daal to be cooked properly .

What I do , I perpetually prepare the daal in an exceedingly slowcooker or crockpot . those that have a slowcooker , please use it . Use less water than usual than set the temperature to high for two hours , then to slow for one more 3- four hours . Most of the time , I jazz before attending to sleep . I set the temperature to low before going bed , within the morning chotpoti appearance simply good . 🙂

Those who doesn’t have slow cooking utensil will use sterilizer too . Faster !!!

3. once it's done , add the ingredients mentioned partly B. reckoning on your style , you'll be able to add the dry cooked masalas additional or less .

4. Don’t combine the ingredients mentioned partly C till you serve . I perpetually combine them with very little quantity of chotpoti served , as these ingredients can cause dangerous smell if unbroken for extended . higher perpetually serve severally .

Fuchka:

Fuchka shell

A little additional condensed chotpoti ( The chotpoti daal neds to be terribly mushy) , mixed with all the ingredients mentioned partly B

Boiled potatoes

Chopped onion

Chopped inexperienced chilies

Tamarind water

Mix all the ingredients except tamarind water . Stuff within the fuchka shell . Serve with tamarind water .