Dabeli

Name: Dabeli
Yield: 2 servings
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 8 soft pav buns; 4 potatoes, boiled and mashed; 2 tbsp dabeli masala; Tamarind and date chutney, and garlic chutney; Spiced roasted peanuts; Pomegranate seeds, chopped onion and coriander; Butter and nylon sev

દાબેલી/dah-BAY-lee/

Also known as: Kutchi Dabeli, Kachchhi Dabeli, Double Roti

About this dish

A soft bun stuffed with sweet, spicy mashed potato, tamarind and date chutney, pomegranate and roasted peanuts, toasted in butter.

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Ingredients

🍞8 soft pav buns

🥔4 potatoes, boiled and mashed

🌶️2 tbsp dabeli masala

🫙Tamarind and date chutney, and garlic chutney

🥜Spiced roasted peanuts

🍎Pomegranate seeds, chopped onion and coriander

🧈Butter and nylon sev

Method

Serves 2

Cook the mashed potato with the dabeli masala, a little tamarind chutney and water.

Spread the filling in a tray and top with peanuts, pomegranate and coriander.

Slit the buns and spread both sides with the two chutneys.

Fill with the potato mixture, onion and pomegranate.

Toast in butter on a griddle and roll the edges in sev.

✓ What Makes it Authentic

Dabeli was created in Mandvi in the Kutch region of Gujarat in the 1960s and is now a street food staple across western India.

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