Meva Moodi snack is crunchy salted dry fruits and puffed rice coated with melted jaggery tossed in pure desi ghee. Crisp and chewy, this is best savoured with your fingers while it is still warm. Meva Moodi snack derives its origin from the streets of Calcutta. Meethi moodi essentially means sweetened puffed rice or mamra. A special kind of jaggery called Nalini Gur is used for it.

Meva Moodi

A delicacy from the streets of Calcutta, the Bread Aloo Chaat is a chatpata treat with a blast of flavours and multiple textures.A layer of sliced bread is topped with a flavourful potato mixture, and served with a garnish of peanuts, coconut and sev. While the chutneys and spice powders give this chaat a mouth-watering taste, the garnishes give it a delectable crunch. Serve this snack immediately after preparation to enjoy the crunchiness and peppy taste.

Bread Aloo Chaat, Bengali Street Food

This traditional delicacy from Bengal has a unique taste, which is delicious in its own rustic way. The jackfruit is combined with potatoes for binding and lots of masaledar ingredients for getting a great taste. A coating of bread crumbs gives the Bengali Style Jackfruit Cutlet a fascinating texture that is sure to please you.Although the ingredients are many, they are commonly available in your kitchen, so you don’t need to plan too much before making this delicious treat.

Bengali Style Jackfruit Cutlet, Echor Cutlet

Healthy Bengali Snacks Recipes

Feeling glum on a monsoon day? Set it right with mouth-watering Pyazi! A traditional Bengali snack, the pyazi is deep-fried onion bhajiya with a touch of kalanji. This recipe here comes with a healthy twist. The same irresistible taste and aroma is achieved by cooking the pyazi in a healthy way using just a teaspoon of oil. It requires a bit of tact to tava-cook such snacks, but once you get the hang of it you can cook many of your favourite foods in a healthy way. Serve the Pyazi hot and fresh with green chutney.

Pyazi, Healthy Bengali Snack

A Bengali style recipe which is enjoyed as a snack by most. Not being cooked in too much oil, it is healthy. The methi ghugni is a variation to ghugni, with the addition of fenugreek leaves. These are a good source of iron, folic acid and vitamin A which help to boost haemoglobin levels as well immunity. The masalas and the final touch of coriander, on the other hand, adds to the appeal and taste of this Bengali snack. It's quite satiating thus avoiding munching on other fried snacks. 

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Another healthy snack Matarsutir Kochuri is baked rather than deep-frying, the calorie-count is also absolutely under control. A delicacy from the kitchens of Bengal, this kochuri is made using a dough of two flours with a green peas filling. 

Matarsutir Kochuri, Healthy Bengali Snack

Chops is a cutlet-like snack that is very popular in Bengal. This is a healthy, vegetarian version of this evergreen snack, made with a medley of yummy veggies like potatoes, beetroot and carrots perked up with onions and spices to make it super tasty! Here, we have made the Bengali Style Veg Chops healthy by cooking it on a tava instead of deep-frying in the usual way. 

Bengali Style Veg Chops, Healthy Low Salt Snack

Bajra jhalmuri is a healthy twist to the traditional Bengali snack. Healthy Bengali jhalmuri is a low calorie, high fiber delicacy which surely will not to fail to please your palate. 

Bajra Jhalmuri, Healthy Bengali Jhalmuri

Bengali Dry Snacks Recipes

Nimki is a fried Indian snack made with maida as the main ingredient. Nimki is an all-time favourite Bengali jar snack, which has a very appetizing flavour and extremely interesting mouth-feel! Surprisingly, this snack requires only a few ingredients. Made of a plain flour dough flavoured elegantly with cumin and nigella seeds, the Nimki gets its unique texture from the way it is rolled and cut.

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A non-fried version of the famous Bengali snack, you will love to bite into this Palak Jeera Nimki at tea-time! While the traditional version is usually made of refined flour (maida), which is devoid of most nutrients, here we share a recipe made using whole wheat flour along with iron-rich spinach. It is worth learning how to cook the nimkis on a tava with very little oil as shown here, even though it takes a bit of time. 

Palak Jeera Nimki

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