Here we landing on R today and I am super happy to introduce this cuisine letter R to my readers. Do you know samosas doesn’t only exist in India but also found in some African countries, Even the famous south India masala vadai is found in many countries with different names given to them. Today I chose One such country or to mark its a french colonial Island which is near Mauritius and I loved to read about the island thoroughly when I researched about this island Réunion island previously called as Borbon island in french they call it La Réunion. It is located in the Indian ocean. There is a combination of cuisines followed here Indian, chinese, french, madagascar and african making it am exotic collection which will interest all the people living here. French influence is more enriched in each recipe and the dishes will not taste as they are in other countries.
Eating is one of the favorite part in this island . The traditional “Cari” / curry is served in a meal cari traditional has fish , meat with garlic, onion, lots of tomatoes , turmeric , cloves and ginger. Caris are eaten with plain white rice and our accompanied with a salad called Rougali. And of course the very famous beer here called borbon and it is so famous that this island was also called as Borbon island. The very famous street goods here is Bouchons which is nothing but Dim sums stuffed with pork traditionally , Bonbon piment or also know as chilli bites which is a transformed version of masal vada with lima beans / butter beans and also the very famous Samoussas filled with meat and also veg versions are available here. I was so happy to see that the cuisine is similar to Indian and other asian countries and instantly decided to do all fried street food from this island. Gateaux Piment is the name given to the masala vadai we have with some very little change the taste is similar to the vadai we make in India. Gateaux Piment Is also made in mauritius and had with green chutney as we have in India. Lets move on to the recipe for this tempting fried delights we had it for our evening snacks HD was so happy even My daughter enjoyed eating those crispy Samoussas.. For the recipes I referred here and as it was similar to our south India recipe I adapted My own recipe. For samoussa they have meat stuffing instead I made the veg version by adding potatoes.
Bonbon Piment Recipe
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Cook Time
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Snacks
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Over Night
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15 mins
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Method
- Drain the water in the soaked lima beans . Put it in a mixer and pulse it till they are coarsely ground.
- Transfer it to a bowl add all the ingredients excluding oil for frying.
- Mix the batter well and start making a ball of a small portion.
- Press between the palm and make discs out of it.
- Repeat the same for the rest of the batter.
- Form equal sized disc and place it ready to fry in a plate.
- Heat oil in a kadai/ pan and once it is hot enough slid in the shaped disc on by one.
- Do not over crowd the kadai else the vadai may spread in the oil.
- Fry them till they turn golden brown from both sides.
Gateaux Piment
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Recipe Category
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Preparation time
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Cook Time
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Snacks
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Over night
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15 mins
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Ingredients
Channa dal / Bengal gram dal – 1 cup
Garlic – 2 cloves
Ginger – 1 tsp ( chopped)
Turmeric pd – 1/4 tsp
Coriander leaves – 2 tbsp ( chopped)
Green chillies – 2-3 Nos
Spring onion greens – 2 tbsp ( chopped)
Onions – 1 tbsp ( chopped)
Salt to taste
Oil for frying
Method
- Drain the channa dal and put them in a mixer , grind them to form a coarse paste.
- Add all the other ingredients and mix the batter well .
- Divide the batter to equal portion and make discs.
- Heat oil in a kadai/ pan and slide the disc in them .
- Fry them till golden brown from both sides.
- Do the same for the rest of the batter.
- Transfer them to kitchen towel and drain the excess oil.
- Serve them Hot with Chutney or sauce.
- Transfer them to kitchen towel and then serve Hot with green chutney or sauce.
Samoussas
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Snacks
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15 mins
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15 Mins
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Boiled and mashed Potato – 2 nos- In a sauce pan heat oil and add onions.
- Saute them till translucent, add chopped greenchillies and ginger and saute them well.
- Add the mashed potatoes , turmeric ,red chilli pd, salt and mix them well.
- Filling is ready cool them .
- Mix the all purpose flour and a little water to make a lump free paste.
- Take a samosa sheet , add a tbsp of potato filling and fold the samosa to form a triangle.
- When doing the last fold apply the all pupose flour paste which will act as glue so that the samosa sheet stick nicely.
- Do the same with rest of the samosa pastry and filling.
- Heat Oil in a kadai / pan , slide in the oil.
- Fry them till they turn golden brom from both sides.
- Enjoy the crispy delights with chutney or sauce.
Is it not nice to find dishes so close to our own cuisine in a different part of the world? You have picked two very popular snacks. Lovely.
wow dear such a beautiful snacks with yum yum dip 🙂 really looking nice
I dunno wat to chose, totally lost with those super crispy samoussas and bonbon piment, however i can munch some anytime.
Beautiful pictures and well presented. I enjoyed reading about the Reunion Island. Both the dishes are so similar to Indian dishes.
Ur photos are outstanding,presentation is marvellous,so tempting dishes and dips,great work
These are fantastic recipe choices..the samosas look so crisp and crunchy..n the vadas..excuse me for giving these Indian names..beautifully captured with awesome presentation.
Feels so good to find similarities between these dishes and the Indian dishes, right? Awesome find!!
Wow, these look just our Indian fried vadas. Kudos for finding a country that most of us never heard off and all the dishes look absolutely mouth watering.
Great choices for this never heard of nation. (at least me) 🙂
Both dishes make a wonderful accompaniment to evening tea.
The deep fried platter look fabulous Manjula. I wonder how the same recipes feature in different countries which are poles apart…
wasnt it so interesting to learn about this country..the snacks you chose are so tempting
That snacks platter is really awesome and so many similarities between the cuisines!!! Beautiful clicks MAnjula…
Beautifully Presented. When I first was the pics I was thinking these are so Indian. Guess the same recipe get modified everywhere.
Those snacks loos just like ours. Beautiful clicks…