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Spicy, sweet, tangy, hot, cold, and everything in between–nothing beats street food. This collection of Indian Street Food Recipes will bring the vibrant tastes of India into your kitchen for some delightful meals.

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What’s So Great About Indian Street Food?

Indian street foods are a mix of spicy, sweet, tangy, hearty, hot, cold, and everything in between. Short of going to India, you rarely get to sample these delights in other countries.

Unless you learn how to make some of these yourself.

You may have experienced a few different things like dosas, or samosas, but you haven’t even begun to taste all the best Indian Street food at that point.

With 29 different states, a variety of customs, climates, and cooking traditions, any Indian street food recipes roundup is by definition, going to be limited in scope.

South Indian street food (e.g., vadas, dosas, etc.) is not the same as North Indian Street food (e.g., chana bhatura, aloo Tikki, etc.) is not the same as Bengali Street food (ghugni, Jhal muri etc.)

What’s more, even if they’re called vaguely the same thing, (“Indian Breads” anyone?) they’re vastly different.

Speaking of Indian breads–naan, chapati, phulka, roti, paratha, bhakri, puri, bhatura, missi roti, luchi, appam, sheerma, kulcha, rumali roti–those are the correct terms. Not Indian Breads 🙂 Just a little cultural tip from your neighborhood Indian lady here.

But an incomplete list of recipes is no reason not to start, right?

Here’s another reason you want this roundup. You may be familiar with some of the more common, popular Indian recipes like vindaloo , butter chicken , and biryani . You may feel confident ordering these in restaurants.

But..what the heck is a frankie ? Is a medu vada different from a batata wada and does it matter that they all look like bondas but taste different?

Familiarising yourself with these Indian Fast Food favorites will help you branch out at your local Indian restaurant.

What Is Typical Indian Street Food?

35+ TANTALIZING INDIAN STREET FOOD RECIPES

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Indian Frankie Recipe | 33,048 Variations

Either this is inspired street food–or it’s a very versatile away to use up leftovers–or both. So many different variations, and made in 10 minutes.

Low Carb Indian Seekh Kababs

Low Carb Indian Kababs are a fantastic way to make something entirely different with ground beef. No more ho-hum meatballs. These kababs sizzle with flavor!

Savory Potato Patties | Air Fried Vegan Appetizer / Side Dish

I have always been a huge potato lover and have many recipes that include potatoes. I only add more of these recipes, like this Savory Potato Patties, as time goes on because potatoes are so easy to create with.

Simple Chickpea Salad

Simple Chickpea Salad is the perfect vegan salad that can be made in 30 minutes and is combined with freshly chopped vegetables for a delightful bite.

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Pav Bhaji - Mumbai Street Style (Step by Step & Video)

Pav bhaji recipe. This Mumbai style pav bhaji is super delicious to taste and similar to the pav bhaji one gets in Mumbai.

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Indian Chicken Puff – Chicken Curry Puff Recipe

An extremely popular and must have Indian appetizer, these puffs are flakey on the outside and filled with a flavorful chicken mix using curry powder. They are perfect for entertaining and can be made for big/small parties

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Bhel Puri

Bhel puri Is a very popular Mumbai street food and is very easy to make at home. It is a tasty and Chatpata snack made with puffed rice to which many delectable tidbits are added.

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Kutchi Dabeli

A super flavorful and delicious snack, Debeli is very popular on Indian streets. Dinner rolls stuffed with potato filling and chutneys, this one’s a keeper.

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Cauliflower pakora

Cauliflower pakora are a traditional Indian snack or appetizer that’s both tasty and versatile.

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Instant Pot Masala Chai

Instant Pot Masala Chai. 4 minutes under pressure to make a phenomenal, authentic chai. Adjust spices and choice to milk to fit your dietary needs.

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Vada Pav

This is the best tea time snack and so so tempting. Grab vada pao and steaming hot cup of chai on a rainy or cold day and you will be in taste haven.

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Masala Bombay Vegetable Grillled Sandwich

This is something special; it’s called the Bombay Sandwich – Vegetable Sandwich. Loaded with sliced veggies, masala aloo( Potato) and topped with spicy chutney and sev (fried noodles), it’s unlike any other sandwich you’ve had but one that you will love.

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Street-Style Spicy BBQ Corn (Butta) | Gluten Free, Side

BBQ corn on the cob, aka butta, is the quintessential taste of Indian and Pakistani street food. Take advantage of sweet summer corn with this spicy, flavor-packed side dish for your backyard BBQ! The addition of thyme and oregano give it a warm and peppery undertone.

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Chilli Parotta (Video recipe)

Chilli Parotta – a classic spicy street-side dish from Tamil Nadu. Parotta cut into bite-sized pieces are tossed with onion, mixed peppers and spices. This delicious dish is ready in 15 minutes and is easy to make. It makes a quick evening snack or dinner on lazy days and one of the best options to use up leftover parottas or tortillas.

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Aloo Mutter (Indian Curried Potatoes and Peas)

Adapted this recipe from a typical aloo jeera recipe, the addition of peas makes it a little healthier. A quick snack that’s family friendly.

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Chicken Cafreal – Goan Galinha Cafreal Recipe

Chicken Cafreal is a freshly prepared spicy green goan curry. Also known as Galinha Cafreal, the chicken curry is well known and quite popular in the sunny Indian coastline state.

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Falooda Recipe(Mango)

A combination of basil seeds, milk, mango pulp ,some chopped mango and topped with Mango Ice-cream. Perfect when it’s hot outside.

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Super Soft Dahi Vada (Dahi Bhalla Chaat)

This favorite Dahi Vada or Dahi Bhalla recipe has the softest lentil fritters drenched in creamy yogurt and topped with sweet and spicy chutney’s. This popular Indian street food is loved by all and is a perfect inclusion to any festive menu.

This is without a doubt one of my favorite things to eat btw.

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Matar Chaat-Dry Green Peas Recipe - Simple Sumptuous Cooking

Matar chaat is a hugely popular Indian street food that can also double up as a side dish to pair with Rotis and Chapatis.

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Ragda Pattice Recipe (Ragda Patties) Instant pot Ragda Recipe

Ragda pattice recipe – This is a popular Mumbai street food recipe. This ragda chaat has a combination of sweet, spicy and tangy flavors with a combination of crunchy, crispy, soft textures.

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Pigeon Peas Dip | Matar Chaat in Instant Pot

Matar chaat or Matra Chaat, an Indian spiced pigeon peas dip, is one of the most popular street foods in New Delhi. Here’s an easy pressure cooker recipe for this delicious vegan and gluten-free delight that’s perfect as a dip, and makes for a light and refreshing lunch!

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BEST EVER BHEL PURI WITH STEP BY STEP RECIPE

Just the words Bhel Puri make me smile and feel a sense of anticipation. Bhel Puri is a mouth-watering Indian street food that I used to eat at least once a week when I lived in India.

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Corn bhel recipe - tickle your taste buds with this recipe

Try this non-traditional way of making corn bhel or corn chaat * and you’ll be hooked. While most Indian street food demands a mandatory drizzling of tamarind chutney and green chutney, this no-fuss corn bhel recipe doesn’t require either. Since corn bhel is best served at room temperature, it is not only great for snacks but for school lunches too.

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Kozhikal/Yuca/Tapioca fries

This Kozhikal (means chicken legs in Malayalam) is a vegetarian dish. No relationship with chicken in any form!. This is street food snack from North of Kerala, Thalassery. This Kozhikal/Yuca/Tapioca fries. These are batter fried Yuca/Tapioca chips.

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Bhutte Ka Kees – Savory Corn Pudding

Bhutte Ka Kees – Savory Corn Pudding – is popular street food in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, especially in the largest city of Indore.

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Spicy Misal Pav Recipe

Misal Pav is a vibrant meal consisting of a spicy sprouted bean curry topped with crunchy farsan, crisp red onions and fresh cilantro that is served with lightly buttered pav or dinner rolls. The bold flavors of this peppery dish are accentuated with a dash of lemon, packing in an explosion of flavors in every bite.

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Madurai Mutton Keema Kari Dosa

This Kari dosa is an extremely popular recipe in Madurai region, the meat in this recipe is unbelievably delicious, makes the easiest dinner or party food!

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South Indian Vegan Cabbage Fritters (Cabbage Pakoda)

Pakoda is a quintessential Indian tea-time snack, and is usually gram flour (chickpea flour) stuffed with all kinds of savory things. This recipe is a vegan cabbage pakoda , also stuffed with onions and air-fried to perfection.

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Samosa Chaat

Tangy, spicy Samosa Chaat! Spicy chole (chickpeas) are served with samosa and dollops of yogurt and chutney.

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Veg Manchurian Recipe - Indo Chinese Party Starter

Veg Manchurian is popular Indo-Chinese starter recipe. Another one of our favorite Indian street food recipe that is party perfect crowd pleaser too.

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Aloo Tikki

These deep-fried spicy potato patties are extremely popular in India and often enjoyed with dollops of yogurt & chutney.

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Sukha Bhel with Barley Puffs | No Oil Recipe

Sukha means dry and basically this is a dry bhel recipe which is an easy grab and go chaat and perfect for mid-day hunger pangs. This recipe calls for a dry bhel chutney that can be prepared well ahead and stocked up.

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Makhana Bhel – Gluten & Soy Free Vegan Foxnut Indian Salad

Makhana Bhel, an Indian snack that is sure to tantalize your taste buds! This low-calorie snack is light on tummy and tastes delicious to your palate.

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Mumbai Style Ragda Pattice – Instant Pot, Pressure Cooker

Ragda Pattice is a lip-smacking, flavorsome, finger-licking chaat recipe from the streets of Mumbai, India. Mumbai is known for its culinary culture and this chaat recipe from Mumbai will tantalize your taste buds with its sweet, tangy and spicy flavors!!

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Perfect Indian BBQ Tandoori Chicken Recipe

Unless you have a tandoor oven then the dry smoky heat of a BBQ is the very best place to cook this perfect Tandoori Chicken recipe.

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Pakora

These vegetable pakora make a tasty side dish to many Indian dishes. Once you see how quick and easy they are to make, you’ll find yourself making them again and again.

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Bengali Dried Yellow Peas Curry Recipe

This recipe for ghugni is the easiest way of making the popular Bengali snack, often served with luchis (deep fried indian breads) or even muri (puffed rice) as an evening snack. Also known as motorshutir ghugni, this ghugni recipe calls for a handful of ingredients and gives you a wholesome and healthy plant based meal.

Some of these Indian Street Foods are super easy to make at home. Others are–shall we say, a labor of love? Either way, they’re lip-smackingly delicious.

So there’s your list of foods that you may never have had—but really need to have to experience just a taste of the diversity inherent in Indian Street Food Recipes.

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Learn how to cook barley perfectly, in your pressure cooker , on the stovetop, or in your rice cooker. Perfect fluffy, tender, chewy morsels of barley will keep you coming back for more. You can also find a variety of Instant Pot Barley Recipes to try.

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If you’ve never cooked with Barley before, you are in for a treat. Chewy, filling, nutritious, cheap, tasty–I could go on about the benefits of barley. But before you start cooking, you may have a few questions about how to cook barley, that I want to answer for you.

What is the Difference between Hulled Barley and Pearled Barley?

Let me tell you the biggest difference. You want Pearled barley 🙂 I know not everyone will agree with me on this. But Hulled barley takes FOREVER to cook, and is so much chewier that it’s not always well-loved.

But my opinions aside, this is what you need to know.

Hulled barley , or barley groats, are whole grain barley. Only the very outer hull has been removed. So they’re more “whole grain” if you will. In that sense, it could be considered more nutritious. It certainly has a little more fiber. But it is also a lot chewier than pearled barley. The biggest issue for me, however, is that takes a long time to cook. On the stovetop, it can take 60-90 minutes to cook hulled barley.

Pearled barley is the more common form of barley. When a recipe doesn’t specify the type of barley, it’s usually pearl barley they are referring to. In this case, the outer husk and the bran on the groats have been removed. The resultant barley, while still chewy and nutritious, is a lot faster to cook.

In addition to those types, you may also encounter Scotch Barley , Barley Flour or Barley Meal , or even Barley Flakes .

Or you know, you could be like most people who have never in their lives encountered Barley. If you’re one of those, we are going to fix that!

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This is PEARLED BARLEY.

Can I substitute hulled barely for pearled barley or vice versa?

Can you? Yes absolutely.

Will the recipe work as written? Probably not.

You will need to adjust both, the amount of water, as well as the cooking time if you intend to substitute one for the other.

If this is your first time cooking barley, or you aren’t a great improviser or experienced barley chef (is there such a thing?), you might want to stick to the recipe.

Why Cook with Barley?

  • Healthy . Barley is an “ancient grain” and even when used as pearl barley, is still considered a whole grain. It is high in fiber and packed with other nutrients. It has a relatively low glycemic index and less gluten than wheat.
  • Cheap . Unlike some other “superfoods”, barley continues to be much cheaper than say, quinoa for example. In addition, barley expands to about 3.5 times its volume when cooked, and a serving is considered to be 1/2 a cup. So for the cost of 1 cup of barley, you should be getting about 4-5 servings out of it. Not a bad bargain, is it?
  • Blood Sugar Regulation . Barley was found to aid in blood sugar regulation , not only because of its low glycemic index but also because so much of the fiber in barley is indigestible, that it is believed gut fermentation can take several hours, and that may aid in lowering blood sugar for up to 10-14 hours.
  • Texture . Barley has a great, slightly chewy texture that is very pleasing in soups, risottos, and salads.

How to cook Perfect Instant Pot Barley

  • Pearled Barley: Place 1 cup barley, 1 cup water or stock, 1 tablespoon oil/butter/ghee/coconut oil, and 1 teaspoon salt into the inner liner of your Instant Pot .
  • Secure the lid on the pot. Set the Instant Pot at High pressure for 15 minutes . When cook time is complete, let pot release pressure naturally for 10 minutes , and then release all remaining pressure.
  • Fluff with a fork, and serve.

How to cook PerfectStovetopBarley

  • Place 1 cup barley, 3 cups water or stock, 1 tablespoon oil/butter/ghee/coconut oil, and 1 teaspoon salt into a saucepan with a lid. When the mixture boils, reduce the flame to low so that the water bubbles steadily and gently.
  • Cover the pan and allow the barley to cook for 30-40 minutes.
  • Check to see if the barley is tender (by eating a few kernels is the way I prefer!). You may need to cook for a few more minutes.
  • Turn off the heat and let the pot sit undisturbed, with the lid on, for 10 minutes . This allows the barley to finish cooking with the residual heat from the steam.
  • Fluff with a fork, and use as you wish.
  • For hulled barley, expect to double the water and the time. You might want to start with pearled barley instead.

How to cook Barley in a Rice Cooker

  • Rice cooker barley is very easy, and totally hands off. I like to make this either in the Zojirushi, or my Instant Zest Rice cooker .
  • Place 1 cup barley, 2 cups water or stock, 1 tablespoon oil/butter/ ghee /coconut oil, and 1 teaspoon salt into the rice cooker.
  • Place the lid on the rice cooker and press the rice setting. If your rice cooker has a grains setting, use that instead.
  • The rice cooker will automatically turn off when all the water has been absorbed, and your rice cooker barley is done. Budget about 40 minutes for this to happen.
  • Fluff with a fork, and serve.

Do you have to soak Barley before cooking?

You do not have to soak pearled barley before cooking. You also do not need to precook barley before adding it to soup , unless whatever else is in your soup will be mush before the barley finishes cooking.

Tips & Tricks for Cooking the Best Barley You’ve (n)ever Eaten

  • Use the 1 tablespoon of oil/ghee/coconut oil etc. that I ask you to use. It keeps the grains from sticking and makes it a lot less likely to cook up into a sticky clump. Sometimes, I use bacon instead because, bacon!
  • Salt the barley before cooking. This lets the salt penetrate into the grain and lends a LOT of flavor.
  • Let the barley steam for 10 minutes after it is cooked. This is cooking time and allows the grains to continue to get softer, without becoming water-logged.
  • Fluff the barley with a fork before serving. This allows the grains to separate further, and makes them nicer to present and to eat.
  • Use Stock instead of water . I love using chicken stock for cooking barley. It’s also why I made a Chicken and Barley Stew that I think you’ll enjoy.

What Can I Make With Barley?

  • Soups . Barley can be used to bulk up soups and provides a lovely texture in soups and stews.
  • Pilafs and Risottos. You can try this Instant Pot barley pilaf recipe or substitute it into this Instant Pot Farro risotto recipe.
  • Salads . Barley salads are fantastic and filling. You can cook barley in plain salted water, and allow it to cool. Then, you can add it into salads like this Simple Chickpea Salad .
  • Sweet variations. You can try substituting Barley for the millet in this Instant Pot Millet Porridge. Just increase the time under pressure to 15-20 minutes.
  • Beer . Not that I know how, but Barley beer is apparently a thing.

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