Street Foods: Salem Style Thattu Vadai Set

This spicy and tasty snack is very popular in Karur and Salem in Tamilnadu, India. 

It has a lot more variants but this is a very popular Sandwich style snacks.

Ingredients:

Blisstree Thattai - 1 pack

Carrot - 1 Grated

Beetroot - 1 small, Grated

Medium- sized onion - 1 finely chopped

1 handful of Cilantro leaves  - finely chopped

For Green Chutney:

Mint leaves - 1 handful

Cilantro leaves - 2 handfuls

Green chillies - 1 or 2

Salt 

Lemon Juice - 1/2 teaspoon or adjust according to your taste

Oil - 1/2 teaspoon

For Red Chutney:

Onion -1 Chopped

Garlic - 3 to 4 cloves

Tomato - 1 Chopped

Tamarind - a little piece (about 1/2 inch)

Red Chilli - 1 or 2 

Salt

Oil - 1/2 teaspoon

Method:

1. To prepare Green chutney, heat a pan, add oil and add green chillies, mint and cilantro leaves. Saute for a minute and grind in a mixer with little salt and lemon juice. Adding lemon juice helps prevent discoloring.

2. To prepare Red Chutney, heat a pan, add oil and add all the ingredients mentioned under For Red Chutney and saute it well for 5 minutes. Transfer the contents in a mixer jar and grind it.

3. Assembling the sets:

a) Apply Green chutney on a thattai on one side,

b) Apply Red chutney on a thattai on one side, fill it with grated carrot, beetroot, chopped onions and cilantro.

c) Top it off with the Green chutney applied thattai like a sandwich.

d) Blissful Thattu vadai set alias Thattai Sandwich is ready. Assemble more of this and enjoy.