"Indian snacks" and 'Bengali snacks"
PANI PURI OR PUCHKA AND MANY MORE. Source :Google
This Indian snack has many names. Puchka, golgappa,pani puri and many more.
HISTORY
Chat is considered the predecessor of pani puri. According to the culinary anthropologist Kurush Dalal, chaat originated in Northern India (now Uttar Pradesh). Food historian Pushpesh Pant opines that pani puri originated in North India (around modern-day Uttar Pradesh). He also noted that it was possibly originated from Raj-Kachori. Someone made a smaller puri and made a pani puri from it..Pani puri spread to the rest of India mainly due to migration of people from one part of the country to another in the 20th century.
PANI PURI
The Panipuri is a popular street snack in Maharashtra, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Nepal. It consists of a round, hollow puri, fried crisp and filled with a mixture of flavored water, tamarind chutney, chili, chaat masala, potato, onion and chickpeas.
PANI PURI. SOURCE: GOOGLE
PUCHKA
It is known as Phuchka in Eastern Indian states like Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal, also in Bangladesh. Phuchkas use a mixture of boiled gram and mashed potatoes as the filling, the chutney is tangy rather than sweetish and the water is spicy.
GOL GAPPA
The delicious snack of puris filled with tangy water is known as Gol Gappe in New Delhi, Punjab, Jammu & Kashmir, Haryana, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh in India and almost everywhere in Pakistan. Gol Gappe is probably equivalent to North India just like Vada Pav is to Maharashtra.
AND MANY MORE NAMES AND TYPES OF PANI PURI IS MADE ALL OVER THE WORLD . AND IS A VERY FAMOUS INDIAN SNACK.
GHOTI GOROM
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The smoky, dull skyline of Kolkata turns into a riot of colours as dusk descends. Children shrieking and playing in parks, lanes or on roof tops wind up the day’s match and reluctantly drag their feet, all homeward bound. And then suddenly, the faint tinker of bells, seem to lift their sagging spirits. They suddenly become restless to meet the ‘Pied Piper of Kolkata.’ Gradually, the silhouette of a man appears at one end of the lane. He beckons all in his sing-song tune, “Ghoti gorooooom, ghoti gorooooom…..”
As his voice reaches the farthest end of the lane, children drag their mothers or grannies, pleading them to buy Ghoti gorom. An initial phase of tussle continues when elders extract promises from the kids before relenting to their demand and treating them to a thonga (paper packet) of Ghoti gorom. This has been part of a daily ritual in the city and even in the villages of Bengal for generations. So many of our traditional rituals and foods have fallen prey to modernization but fortunately for us, Ghoti gorom has been able to hold on despite steady threats from delectable street-foods as roll, chowmein, momo, pasta, jhal muri, batata puri etc …. and all because of a loyal band of followers who still continue to patronize this simple fare.
But what is Ghoti Gorom? It is basically a form of salted chanachur mixed with roasted.peanuts, corns, finely chopped onions, green chillies and the star of the show, amra, that gives it a sour and tangy taste. This is what gives the Ghoti Gorom that special X Factor! But since it is not always abundantly available, vendors these days replace it with raw green mango and grated carrot. The roving vendor carries his ware in a cylindrical container aka ghoti tied securely with a gamchha and dangling from his neck with a number of medium-sized vessels surrounding the ghoti. The entire merchandise is covered with a ubiquitous red cotton cloth or gamchha.
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