easy cheese dabeli recipe | kacchi cheese dabeli with dabeli masala
Recipe Snapshot
- Prep time: 15 minutes
- Cook time: 15 minutes
- Total time: 30 minutes
- Yield: 6 Servings
- Category: snacks
- Cuisine: street food
Ingredients
for dabeli masala:
- 2 dried kashmiri red chilli
- 1 tsp coriander seeds
- ½ tsp jeera / cumin
- ¼ tsp saunf / fennel
- 10 whole black pepper
- 1 bay leaf / tej patta
- 3 cloves / lavang
- 1 black cardamom
- 1 inch cinnamon stick
- 2 tbsp dry coconut / kopra / desiccated coconut
- pinch of hing / asafoetida
- ½ tsp sugar
- ½ tsp salt
for stuffing:
- 2 tbsp oil
- 2 tbsp tamarind chutney
- ½ tsp salt
- 2 potato (boiled and mashed)
- 2 tbsp fresh coconut (grated)
- handful of pomegranate seeds / anardhana
- 2 tbsp coriander leaves (finely chopped)
- handful of sev (fine)
- 2 tbsp masala peanuts
other ingredients:
- 6 pav
- ¼ cup tamarind chutney
- ¼ cup garlic chutney
- 1 cup cheese (grated)
- ½ onion (finely chopped)
- 3 tsp butter (for roasting)
- ¼ cup sev (fine)
Method
- firstly, slit 2 sides of the pav and create pocket.
- spread one side of pav with a tsp of tamarind chutney and other side with garlic chutney.
- also stuff a tsp of prepared dabeli stuffing.
- top with a tbsp of grated cheddar cheese and a tbsp of chopped onions.
- further pour ½ tsp of tamarind chutney and garlic chutney.
- again stuff the prepared dabeli stuffing and level it out.
- heat the pan with some butter and place stuffed pav.
- roast on medium flame flipping both sides till the dabeli turns crisp.
- finally, roll the sides of dabeli in fine sev and serve cheesy kacchi dabeli.
Kiyaan Singh’s Kitchen Note
Keep this recipe as a working base: cook once as written, then adjust spice, texture, and serving style for your own table.