Snack Recipes

A highly addictive, sweet, spicy, and tangy Mumbai street-food salad made of puffed rice, crunchy sev, onions, potatoes, and chutneys.

Bite-sized, hollow, crispy spheres filled with spiced potatoes and chickpeas, then flooded with a spicy, tangy, minty 'Pani' (water).

The 'Indian Burger'. A spicy, deep-fried potato dumpling (Vada) sandwiched in a soft bread roll (Pav) layered with explosive garlic and chili chutneys.

Ultra-crispy, deep-fried fritters made with thinly sliced onions enveloped in a spiced gram flour (besan) batter.

Crispy, spiced potato patties smashed and smothered in sweet yogurt, tangy tamarind chutney, spicy green chutney, and crunchy sev.

The king of Indian street food—a flaky, crispy, pyramid-shaped pastry stuffed with a heavily spiced, mashed potato and pea filling.

Sweet, soft, fluffy, and mildly spiced deep-fried bread made from overripe bananas, yogurt, and flour. A coastal Karnataka specialty.

A savory, baked vegetable and lentil cake from Gujarat, bursting with the flavors of bottle gourd, sesame seeds, and spices, with a deeply crispy crust.

Crispy on the outside, soft on the inside, these savory South Indian dumpling balls are made in a special pan using leftover fermented idli or dosa batter.

Simple, highly energetic roasted rice and jaggery balls, spiced aggressively with black pepper. The perfect accompaniment to afternoon tea.

Sri Lanka's take on the spring roll: a crepe filled with a stir-fried, soy-sauce flavored vegetable and noodle filling, breaded, and fried.

A unique Sri Lankan bakery innovation: spicy fish, potato, and boiled macaroni tubes shaped into logs, breaded, and deep-fried.