Summer picnics are here again and ours is never complete without bhel in a bag and chutney sandwiches. Here is a #quick and #easy way to pack both for your next picnic!
Bhel is a very popular street food, especially in Pune and Mumbai, India. You are sure to find a bhel cart in and around picnic places like parks, beaches, and old forts with hiking trails. It draws a huge crowd of people , and it is with awe that one watches the ‘bhelwala’ mix each bhel to order!
So here in America, I started packing bhel for our summer picnics, with the dry and wet ingredients ready to be mixed on site, and the concept of bhel in a bag was born! So as soon as the weather got warm this year, we headed off to the harbor islands with our favorite picnic menu – bhel in a bag, chutney and cucumber sandwiches, cut watermelon, and corn on the cob!
- Bhel for 4!
- For the bhel mix- In a gallon-sized zip lock bag, combine 1 cup of kurmure/mamra or crisp…
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Loving this picnic Sandhya. Is bhel the stuff they put in bhel puri and pani puri? I remember eating them on the beach in Juhu on a couple of occasions when we’d visited. Loved it. I like the different things in your picnic basket. Chutney and cucumber sounds quite delicious, then the bhel, corn and then the watermelon. Perfect accompaniment on all fronts.
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Bhel is the bhel puri you remember at Juhu beach for sure. Pani puri is the crispy puris stuffed with potatoes/mung or chickpeas and chutenys and dunked in a minty concoction which is the ‘pani’. all part of the yummy chaat family:)
That is our standard picnic basket ever since the kids were little so now seems as a pre requisite for picnics;)
Thank you so much for your sweet comments Loretta!
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What a lovely picnic dish Sandhya! Great photo 🙂
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Thanks Antonia!
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Ooooh this is my kinda picnic!!
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Sonal, now my family refuses to go on a picnic without this ‘picnic basket’:)
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😀 I can see why!!
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