How many times have you wished for "that life" where you could eat chaat every day, for every meal? Well, some of us or many of us - probably. But if we were born and brought up in Mumbai - then definitely we did!
So to give me(the newlywed Bong daughter-in-law) a first hand experience of this "chaat-ful" dinner ritual of Mumbai, the entire family headed to marine drive one fine evening after our marriage. A mid-December evening at "Khau Galli" is something you can't miss for the world. I was stunned! Name any chaat and you'll find it there. The aroma, the crowd, the noise, the beach breeze - everything just adds up and sends you to a frenzy. I swear I had never ate so much at one go in my entire life - and I was still craving for more. But all that's well, doesn't end well! So the non-mumbaikar stomach of mine couldn't handle it very well and ended up giving me a real bad stomach that night. Medicines and strict diet got me recovered pretty quick, but left a deep aversion on my subconscious against those delicious street foods and I couldn't take the risk of trying it again.
So keeping in mind all the restrictions and conditions, first and foremost, the following were ruled out :
We were most religious not to have any of those items in the kitchen. So I looked around wondering what we had in the kitchen that could be of some use? Well, I actually found plenty many things:
I'm pretty sure you must be wondering how it turned out to be... so without further ado, here's the p...