Is chaat ki kya baat!

May 15 2008  | Views 362 |  Comments  (5)
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Warning: Contains explicit stuff!


I like chaat very much. But close to my wife's chemist shop is a chaat seller. They have complete transparency of operations that would put the RTI act to shame! They cook in the open, outside their house! And since the day we saw them making their stuff in the open some 15 years ago, I lost the courage to eat chaat from shops but not my desire.


Here's the process they use in making the ingradients for chaat and I am not exaggerating it a wee bit:
>Buy the cheapest potatoes from the market, no problem if they are rotten
>Peel without washing in the august company of flies, vehicular smoke, mosquitoes and dust
>If a dog or cow happen to taste the stuff, shoo them away and  carry on with the value add on
>Use the worst curd from a source for sour curd - it is as cheap as Rs. 10 a kilo and makes me wonder if it really is curd
>Use illegal colours for red and green chutney
>Use water from a black storage tank that is made of cancerous material
>Decorate the whole thing on a cart that is spick and span and has stainless steel sheets
>Ignite incence sticks to drive away flies at the serving end but not the cooking end
>Wash plates after consumption in a bucket of water again and again - recycled resource that is worse than filth

But I do feel the urge to eat chaat ocassionally so I eat it at a different vendor and assume he is more scrupulous.

But yesterday I found a fantastic solution. You too can try it and eat it to your heart's content.

Here's the recipe for a wonderful and mind boggling chaat. And it is absolutely patented in case some hot shot from USA has ideas of patenting it.

>Take a bowl of curd
>Mix 2 spoonfuls of sugar
>Add salt to taste
And here is the big secret.
>Add 3-4 spoons of Haldiram Khatta mitha mixture.
>Stir and stir.
>Your chaat is ready for consumption!

And I personally guarantee that friends, foes, neighbours and everyone who tastes this heavenly chaat will beg you for the recipe. 

Give it to them. Let them rid of the neighbourhood chaat walah too.
Let's create a healthy world! 

PS: This is not a Haldiram Advert! I mentioned what I used. You can try any other Khatta mitha mixture, compare reults and post your experience here.  
Three cheers!
© Ravvi Sharma., all rights reserved.

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