SLS33-From My Kitchen to Your Plate Week #4 Street Food at Home [Delicious Homemade Chotpoti]

_{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 fourth week of Steemit Engagement Challenge Season 33. This week's theme is "SCS-33 " "From My Kitchen To Your Plate" Week #4 Street Food At Home" And a big thank you to @suboohi ma'am for organizing such a beautiful competition. Who doesn't get excited when they hear the name of hot street food? But thinking about health and cleanliness, many times we don't go out and eat street food. So today I will share with you a delicious "Chotpoti" recipe that I make in my kitchen in a very easy and healthy way. So let's get started...!!

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Required materials.

A nice and well-organized list of ingredients required to make delicious chatpoti at home is given below in a table form:

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Serial No.	Ingredient Name	Quantity
1	Double dal (boiled)	2 cups
2	Eggs	2 pices
3	Boiled potatoes	3 pices
4	Fuchka	8/10 pieces
5	Tamarind juice	As much as possible
6	Onion, green chili and coriander leaves	As much as possible
7	Cumin powder, coriander powder, and red chili powder	3 teaspoons
8	Radhuni Chatpati Masala	2 teaspoons
9	Bit of salt	According to taste

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Step 1: Soak the double dal or chickpeas

✔ As the main ingredient for making the chatpoti, I took 2 cups of double dal or chickpeas in a clean bowl. Then I washed the Dabli dal or chickpeas very well with clean water. Once the dals were washed, I poured enough water on the dals and soaked them for 4 to 5 hours, so that the dals became soft and swelled nicely.

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Step 2: Boil the lentils in a pressure cooker

✔ At this stage, I placed a pressure cooker on the stove, then poured the pre-soaked dabli dal or chickpeas into the pressure cooker and added the required amount of water. Then I added a teaspoon of turmeric powder and salt to taste to the dal. After adding everything, the lid of the pressure cooker was closed tightly and placed on the stove to boil. After the specified time, the lid was opened and it was found that the double dals were cooked, so I took it off the stove.

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Step 3: Boil and slice potatoes and eggs

✔ Now, I put a measured amount of water in another pot on the stove, then I put the chopped potatoes and eggs in the water to boil. After boiling, I peeled the potatoes and eggs and kept them separately on a plate. Finally, I cut the boiled potatoes into small pieces or cubes and prepared them nicely.

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Step 4: Making tamarind sauce

✔ At this stage, to make tamarind tamarind water, first I took a quantity of tamarind in a bowl and then soaked the water in the tamarind. After the tamarind became soft, I took out its juice and added a pinch of salt to it. Then, to enhance the taste and texture of the tamarind, I added a little dry chili powder, a quantity of chaat masala, and a little lemon juice to make the tamarind taste more delicious. Finally, I mixed all the ingredients well and made a delicious tamarind tamarind sauce.

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Step 5: Mix all the ingredients together and finally prepare the chatpoti.

✔ Boiled dabli dal or chickpeas were taken in a large bowl.Then the boiled and chopped potatoes were poured over the dal and the dal and potato pieces were mixed together well. Now cumin powder, coriander powder and chili powder were added. Along with this, special chatpati masala was poured in. Then the prepared tamarind sour sauce was mixed with it as per the measure. Finally, all the ingredients were mixed together well and the delicious chatpati was completely prepared and ready to serve.

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Step 6: Preparation for serving and final decoration

✔ At this stage, chopped onion, green chilli and coriander leaves were prepared on a plate. Then, these chopped onion, green chilli and coriander leaves were spread nicely on the prepared chatpati. Now, the whole fuchkas were broken and spread on the chatpati, giving the entire dish its final shape for serving in an attractive and delicious manner.

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Step 7: Final serving and grating the eggs

✔ The pre-boiled egg was grated and spread beautifully on the chatpati, which further enhanced the taste and beauty of the dish.

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Final presentation of my recipe

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✅ Alhamdulillah, after finally completing all the steps successfully, our homemade fun and delicious chatpati is completely ready to serve.

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My all-time favorite street food is "Delicious Chatpoti". It has always been a very special and favorite food for me. And the main reason behind it is its unique taste - a great mix of sour, spicy, and crunchy broken pieces of fuchka that makes me feel good in an instant. Eating a bowl of hot chattopi to relieve the fatigue of work in the afternoon or while chatting with friends is a different pleasure. And especially the memories of eating chattopi with a bowl in my hand while standing next to a fuchka shop in my childhood, on the way back from school or outside, or in the afternoon with my loved ones, are still very clearly etched in my mind. Whenever I want to eat some yummy food, this delicious chattopi is the first thing that comes to my mind.

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In my opinion, street food is very convenient and tempting, because it is easily available at any time and its taste and quickness are truly incomparable. However, especially in the afternoon or in the middle of a busy work day, the joy of eating hot street food is very different.

However, we should keep one more thing in mind, because instead of going out to eat street food, thinking about our health risks and cleanliness, I think it is much wiser to prepare street food at home with fresh and safe ingredients. In this way, you can enjoy the real taste of your favorite street food with your family in a completely safe and healthy way, following the spices and hygiene rules of your choice.

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✅ Present your recipe beautifully with your name card with date.

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It's also a pleasure for me to see the recipes of other contestants participating in this competition and encourage them. However, the links to the two posts I commented on are given below:

Engagement link:👇

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• https://steemit.com/steem-for-pakistan/@mueeinislam/reply-asiow1
• https://steemit.com/steem-for-pakistan/@mueeinislam/reply-smt2tz

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I want to invite my friend @jimiaera02 @wilmer1988 @shahid76 @pea07 @m-fdo @chant @oswaldocuarta @sualeha @wirngo @chantto 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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