Recipe- Street Style Bengaluru Sandwich

Bengaluru Sandwich ( also called as Bun Nippat Masala) is a street style snack found in many places in Bengaluru. Refreshing salad, sweet pineapple, crunchy nippatu and masala peanuts combined with sweet and spicy chutneys make this sandwich lip smacking good.

Ingredients

3 large burger buns
3 nippatu ( rice crackers) also called chekkalu in telugu
3 tablespoons congress kadlekayi
3 tablespoons green chutney
2 tablespoons date chutney or to taste
3 tablespoons sev
few thinly sliced pineapple wedges
few thinly sliced cucumber
few thinly sliced tomato
½ onion, finely chopped
1 carrot, peeled and grated
2 tablespoons chopped coriander leaves
salt to sprinkle
Kashmiri red chili powder to taste
chaat masala to taste

Method

- Finely chop the onion, add a squeeze of lemon and soak it in water for 10 minutes to remove the strong raw flavor. Drain the water completely and set a side.

- Add the onion, coriander leaves and grated carrot to a bowl and mix it well.

- Slice the bun, apply butter/oil and roast in the tawa or a toaster till light brown.

- Apply green chutney and tamarind chutney on both bun slices. Now crush a nippatu and place it on one of bun slice.

- Now add congress kaldlekayi (masala peanuts) and onion carrot and coriander mixture. Sprinkle some salt and chaat masala.

- Add sev, thinly sliced cucumber, pinch of salt, thinly sliced pineapple, red chili powder, chaat masala, and tomato.

- Now cover with the other half of the bun which is applied with date and green chutney. Gently press the bun from the top and cut them to four pieces.

- Serve immediately.