The Mouthwatering Street Foods Of Kolkata You Must Try in 2021
Food especially street food binds us together. There is a feeling of oneness in the aroma of the street food. And Kolkata people love to eat. We will in listing Mouthwatering Street Foods Of Kolkata.
Ghugni
A delicious snack made from soaked white chickpeas. You should boil the chickpeas to make it a yellow curry and then you can eat it. It is one of the healthiest and best street food in Kolkata. You can eat it hot with onions, tomato, coriander, chat masala, cucumber, and green chilies as toppings or you can add garam masala too. You can enjoy delectable ghugni together with garam cha or hot tea. Papri chaat is another Bengali street food that is famous among young and old. You can find ghugni and papri chaat in almost all streets in Kolkata.
Where to find best ghugni
New Market, Gariahat Market, Dacres Lane, Ramji Ghugniwala of Park Street and many more
Phucka
Phuckas is the one of the best and mouthwatering Street Foods Of Kolkata. You will definitely fall in love with the taste of crunchy phucka puris. Yu can stuff the phuckas with potatoes, spices, chickpeas. You can serve these puris with pudina water, jeera, chillies, tamarind. This Kolkata food is so famous that you will find phucka vendors in almost every street in Kolkata. Another famous street food in Kolkata that is a variant of phucka is churmur. It is generally made out of crushed and dry phucka puris. You can add onions, coriander leaves, red chillies, and tamarind to spice it up. You will find churmur with all phucka vendors. Aloo kabli is another famous street food which is unique in Kolkata. Street food taste of Kolkata is not complete if you do not eat churmuri and alu kabli.
Best places
Triangular Park, Vivekananda Park, Bhawanipore, Vardan Market, Southern Avenue, Victoria Memorial, Russell Street, New Alipore and Park Street.
Jhaalmuri
This kolkata food is one of the most delicious street food of Kolkata. It is easiest and quickest to prepare which makes it unique. Jhaalmuri is a simple food. You just need to mix simple puffed rice with fresh onion, cucumber, peanuts, tomato, spices, mustard oil, sev and coconut. And if you want you can add lemon and chaat masala to make it an enticing Bengali street food. And if you serve in paper bags makes it the best Bengali food. Enjoy this evening snack with tea which gossiping with friends and family.
Famous Jhaalmuri
Triangular Park, Jawaharlal Nehru Road, Lord Sinha Road
Mughlai Paratha
It is one of the common and famous street food of Kolkata. Mughlai paratha is generally a deep-fried paratha. You can fill the paratha with eggs, chicken, mutton, You can also add lamb chunks to it. You can mix spices in it and can serve the paratha with potato dish. It tastes delicious and is a stomach filling evening snack. Everyone – old and young loves this food.
Best places to try
Anandi Cabin at Jawaharlal Nehru Road and Basanta Cabin at College Street
Shingaras and Kachoris
Shingaras or samosas and kachoris are the typical Bengali evening snacks that everyone likes to have with tea. They have unique triangle shapes and filled up with cauliflower, potato, chicken and mutton kheemas. Every sweet shop makes shingaras and kachoris. Street food of Kolkata is not complete without tasting mouth watering shingaras. Kachoris are made of sattu filings. This dish is basically served with potato dish and cholar dal.
Some best places
Balaram Mullick, Nabakrishna Guin,Haldar Mohashay , Mithai, Gupta Brothers, Sharma Sweets and many more.
Ghoti Gorom
Street food in Kolkata is incomplete without having goti gorom. This scrumptious and simple street food is a combination of chanachur. The chanchurs are then mixed with onions , coriander, lemon juice and lots of spices. And are served hot.
Best found
Princep Ghat, Russell Street
Telebhaja and cutlets
This is one of the famous street food of Kolkata. This is the common evening snack with muri in Kolkata. It is made by frying onions, potato, brinjal, cauliflower and many more with besan and corn flour. Cutlet is another variant of fried food which is made of vegetables, chcken , mutton dipped into egg and breadcrumbs and deeply fried.
Famous place
Hatibagan, College Street, Surya Sen Street, Mitra Café, Basanta Cabin, Kalighat, Jadavpur.
Chowmein
The world knows it as noodles but in Kolkata it is called chowmein. This street food is made with lots of vegetables or chicken with tomato, chilli and soya sauce. And eating it hot is the perfect snack in the evening while you are out.
Best places to try
Dacre Street, Vardan Market, Park Street, China Town and many more places in the city.
Momos
This street food has originated in Tibet. It is a Tibetan delicacy which has become Kolkata’s hot favourite. They are the most fulfilling street food in Kolkata and you can have it anytime be it lunch and dinner too. You can enjoy this food with pepper soup and the chili garlic sauce. And it is better to serve this food hot. They are spicy in taste. You can have both the pan fried and steamed momos. You can have veg momos and chicken momos. Nowadays, you can have momo burger, a variation from the traditional momos.
Famous places to have momos
China Town, Tiretti Bazaar, Rabindra Sadan, and Camac Street.
Kathi Roll
This famous street food is there since 1930 in Kolkata. And since then, thin parathas stuffed with vegetables, chicken and egg with lots of tomato and chilli sauces, onions, cucumbers are not only famous in Kolkata but in the whole world. It is the most sumptuous evening snack you can have when you are out with your friends and families.
Famous place to try
Anamika Roll Centre near Triangular Park, Hot Kathi Roll at Park Street, Nizam Rolls in New Market, Kalika Mukhorochak at College Street, Kusum’s at Park Street.
Conclusion
Kolkata’s culture revolves around food. People in Kolkata just loves to eat good food. So, do not miss out food especially the Mouthwatering Street Foods Of Kolkata. So, what are you planning to eat today?