Chana Jor Garam (Flattened Spicy Chickpea Snack, Street Style)
Petchanko Strikes Back! Sour and spicy demon grains violently shaken with newspaper corn
Description
Super-chewy junk snack tossing black chickpeas (Chana Jor)—boiled, flattened, oil-fried crisp—with raw veg, intense spices, lemon juice.
Restaurants serving Chana Jor Garam (Flattened Spicy Chickpea Snack, Street Style)
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Recipe
Ingredients
- Flattened chickpeas(Snack)
- Onion
- Tomato
- Green chili
- Lemon
- Chaat Masala
- Black salt
Instructions
- [For
- Servings/Ingredients] 100g Chana Jor (commercial snack of boiled/flattened/fried black chickpeas), 1/
- minced red onion, 1/
- minced tomato,
- minced green chili,
- tbsp Chaat Masala,
- tsp chili powder, 1/
- tsp black salt,
- lemon, cilantro.
- On Mumbai beaches or Delhi streets, vendor hanging wooden box from neck (or small stall) deftly rolls newspaper/magazine pages making 'conical paper cone'.
- Dumps black chickpea snack 'Chana Jor'—flattened like coins and deep-fried crispy—into large bowl (or space on wooden box).
- Tosses in minced crispy red onions, tomatoes, green chilies, cilantro.
- Sprinkles flavor keystone 'massive Chaat Masala', intense sulfur-smelling black salt, and merciless chili powder.
- Powerfully squeezes halved lemon tight, swiftly/vigorously stirs 'Shaka-shaka!' with spoon.
- Pours 'whoosh' the finished sour-spicy bean mix into the paper cone made earlier handing over. Intense 'crunch, crunch' bite-response of flattened beans, lemon acidity, spice heat pop in mouth—Indian street entertainment snack.
Learn more Spice, substitutes, tips
Key spices
Chaat Masala、Black salt、Red chili
Substitutes at Japanese supermarkets
Fried rolled barley or cornflakes (lacks bean flavor but as texture sub)
Pairing
Cold Cola、Masala Chai、Companion for city walking
Trivia
[Hardcore] 'Chana' is chickpeas, 'Jor Garam' means 'very hot (or spicy)' (said to derive from a song lyric). Not just frying beans, undergoing the very tedious process of 'boiling then flattening before frying' yields a strong 'crunchy' bite-response on a different dimension from regular bean snacks. Optimal junk food for crunching while watching Indian B-movies.
Eating tips & etiquette
[Unique Eating] Tilt the cone to directly wash down into your mouth the super-spicy 'final bite' where lemon juice/spices dissolved gooey accumulating bit by bit at the cone bottom!
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