SLC-S31W4-"My Taste My Culture (Street Food)/ Street food Fuska)!"

_{Hҽʅʅσ ҽʋҽɾყσɳҽ. I αɱ @mueeinislam
Fɾσɱ #Bangladesh 🇧🇩}

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Assalamu Alaikum, I hope you are all well, Alhamdulillah I am also healthy and well. I am very happy to participate in the Third week of Steemit Engagement Challenge Season 31. This week's theme is "SLC-S31W4 -"My taste My Culture ; Street Foods." And a big thank you to @alexanderpeace ma'am for organizing such a beautiful competition. This week's topic is Street Foods. In our busy lives, these roadside foods not only satisfy hunger, but also act as a reflection of our social connections. Today I will share with you one of the most popular street foods in our country and one of my personal favorites ( Fuska). So let's get started...!

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Prepare your culture’s street food. Show clear steps of your ingredients and cooking process.

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Required materials.

Below is a list of the ingredients that I measured and prepared at the beginning of making the fuska:

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Ingredient Name	Quantity	Ingredient Name	Quantity
Boiled Yellow Peas	1 Cup	Boiled potatoes (mashed)	2 pices
Boiled eggs	1 pices	Fuska	15-20 pices
Tamarind	As much as possible	Chopped onion	1 cup
Chopped Green Chilli	1 cup	Chopped Coriander	1 cup
Roasted dry chili powder	1 teaspoon	Cumin powder	1 teaspoon
Coriander powder	1 teaspoon	Chaat masala	1 teaspoon
Lemon juice	1 teaspoon	Salt	to taste

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Step 01

✔ First, I put a pot on the stove and added enough water. Then I added the pre-soaked yellow peas buckwheat along with 2 chopped potatoes and an egg, covered it with a lid and let it boil.

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Step 02

✔ I took the well-boiled potatoes and peas and mashed them well. Now I mixed them with chopped onion, chopped chili, chopped coriander leaves, coriander powder, cumin powder, salt to taste, and chaat masala to make a delicious pur.

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Step 03

✔ At this stage, to make tamarind water, I took enough water in a bowl, added tamarind, sugar and salt to taste. Then I added roasted dry chili powder and a teaspoon of lemon juice and mixed all the ingredients to make tamarind water.

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Step 04

✔ I bought a packet of ready-made fuchka from the market. Now I put a pot on the stove to fry the fuchkas and added enough oil to it. When the oil was hot, I added the fuchkas and fried them well. When they turned brown, I removed them and placed them on a plate.

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Step 05

✔ Now all the ingredients are ready to make the fuchka. So now I took a fuchka and made a hole in the middle of the fuchka shell and filled it with potato filling using a spoon. I filled all the fuchkas with potato filling in the same way and placed them on a plate.

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Final presentation of my recipe

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✅ Pur Once all the fuchkas were filled, I arranged the fuchkas on a plate and placed a bowl of sour water in the middle. Then I sprinkled the grated boiled egg on top of the fuchkas with the help of a grater. Alhamdulillah, finally, my fuchkas are completely ready to serve.

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What lifestyle does this street food represent and How affordable and accessible is it? What is the cultural importance of this street food and why it is widely consumed in your culture?

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Our country's Phuchka is the most affordable and very popular street food in the culture. This street food Phuchka is basically sold at street corners and in vans or small shops at various tourist spots, so it is very easily available.

• Affordable: This street food is available for just 30 taka, 50 taka and 70 to 100 taka for a plate of Phuchka, which is within the purchasing power of everyone, especially school and college students, lower and middle class people.

• Cultural importance: This street food Phuchka is basically a symbol of our afternoon chat and socialization. However, be it any festival or ordinary day in our country, especially these Phuchka shops are always crowded with people.

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What does this street food say about your people’s way of life? Does it reflect: Busy lifestyles? Economic realities? Community interaction? Explain its role in everyday culture.

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This very popular street food of our country reflects the busy lifestyle and social interaction of the people of our country.

• Social integration: These roadside street food stalls of our country are the main hangout centers for all of us. At these street food stalls, acquaintances and strangers all stand here and enjoy food together, which reflects our strong social bonds and harmony.

• Economic reality: The livelihood of many small entrepreneurs in our country depends on the sale of these fuchkas.

• Unique taste: These street food stalls of our country bring everyone together, regardless of the rich or the poor. The joy of eating fuchkas standing on the roadside is an integral part of our culture.

"Simply put, the food at these roadside street food stalls is an expression of the simplicity and tradition of our common life.

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List the prices of your ingredients in Steem and your local currency.

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Below is a detailed cost list of the ingredients I used to make these delicious fuchka at home. It is arranged according to the current market price and Steam exchange rate:

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Local Currency (BDT)	Steem Price (STEEM)
Fuchkar Khol	1 packet	250 Taka	34.28 STEEM
Dubli Peas and Potatoes	500 grams	60 Taka	8.15 STEEM
Tamarind, Spices and Salt	As needed	40 Taka	5.43 STEEM
Chilli, Coriander, Onion	As needed	30 Taka	4.07 STEEM
Eggs and Lemon	1 each	15 Taka	2.05 STEEM

Total cost = 395 taka / 54.62 STEEM

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Present your dish beautifully with a name tag and a selfie.

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Poetic Cultural Cliché

Street Food Fuchka: The Rhythm of Sour and Spicy.

​"That golden ball, swollen in the warmth of hot oil, awakens a flicker of flavor in the tamarind water of potatoes. In that afternoon chat, it mixes with the deep pull of life, this taste on the side of the road is like a song of culture."

​Personal explanation: For me, Fuchka is not just a food, it is a collection of thousands of afternoons and memories spent with our friends. And every bite of this Fuchka contains the simplicity and touch of tradition of our civic life. Especially when I prepare all the ingredients with my own hands, prepare it and serve it to my family, then its joy doubles.

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Engagement link:👇

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• ✅ https://steemit.com/ladies-universe/@mueeinislam/reply-dk0vea
• ✅ https://steemit.com/ladies-universe/@mueeinislam/teml1m

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I want to invite my friend @suboohi @jimiaera02 @ahsansharif @max-pro @mahadisalim to join this contest.

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Thank you very much for taking the time to read my post. May you all always be well and healthy by the grace of allah. I end here by wishing you all a long life.

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