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A famous street food from the Kutch region of Gujarat. It's a delightful mix of sweet, spicy, and tangy potato filling stuffed in a soft pav, loaded with crunchy peanuts, sev, and juicy pomegranate.
For 6 servings
Prepare the Sweet Tamarind-Date Chutney
Prepare the Red Garlic Chutney
Make the Dabeli Potato Filling
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A famous street food from the Kutch region of Gujarat. It's a delightful mix of sweet, spicy, and tangy potato filling stuffed in a soft pav, loaded with crunchy peanuts, sev, and juicy pomegranate.
This gujarati recipe takes 60 minutes to prepare and yields 6 servings. At 1203.04 calories per serving with 35.25g of protein, it's a moderately challenging recipe perfect for snack or lunch.
Layer and Garnish the Filling
Assemble the Dabeli
Toast and Serve
Replace the potatoes with boiled and mashed raw bananas. Omit the onions and garlic from the recipe.
Add a layer of grated processed or mozzarella cheese inside the pav before stuffing the potato mixture for a gooey, cheesy twist.
Use whole wheat pav instead of regular pav. You can also lightly toast the pav with minimal oil instead of butter, or bake them in an oven until crisp.
The potatoes and pav provide complex carbohydrates, which are the body's primary source of energy, making it a fulfilling snack.
Pomegranate arils, tamarind, and the various spices in the dabeli masala are packed with antioxidants that help fight free radicals in the body.
Spices like cumin and coriander, along with tamarind, are known to aid digestion and improve gut health.
This recipe is entirely plant-based (if using oil instead of butter for a vegan option), providing nutrients from vegetables, legumes, and spices without any animal products.
Kutchi Dabeli is a delicious street food snack that is moderately healthy. It contains carbohydrates from potatoes and pav for energy, and antioxidants from pomegranate and spices. However, it can be high in calories due to butter, sev, and sweet chutney. To make it healthier, use whole wheat pav, reduce butter and sev, and control the portion size.
A single serving of Kutchi Dabeli (approximately 165g) contains around 300-350 calories. The exact number can vary based on the amount of butter, sev, and sweet chutney used.
Dabeli Masala is a unique spice blend typically made from dried red chillies, coriander seeds, cumin, cloves, cinnamon, star anise, black pepper, and other whole spices. It's what gives Dabeli its signature sweet and spicy flavor.
You can store the leftover potato filling in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 2-3 days. Reheat it in a pan with a splash of water before using. The chutneys can be stored separately in the fridge for up to a week.
While both are popular Maharashtrian/Gujarati street foods served in pav, they are very different. Vada Pav features a deep-fried spiced potato fritter (vada), while Dabeli has a sweet, spicy, and tangy mashed potato filling that is cooked, not fried. Dabeli also includes various garnishes like pomegranate, sev, and masala peanuts, which are not in a traditional Vada Pav.
The main source of gluten is the ladi pav. To make this recipe gluten-free, you would need to use certified gluten-free buns or bread. The filling and chutneys are naturally gluten-free, but always check the label of your dabeli masala and sev to ensure they don't contain any gluten additives.