Zanzibar Mix is a tangy and crispy combination which is popular street food of tanzania. There are many elements added to this bowl of soup makes its a delicious and filling soup by itself.
Author: Manjula Bharath
Recipe type: Street Food Recipes
Cuisine: Tanzanian Cuisine
Serves: 3
Ingredients
For Dar Na Bhajia
Green Moongdal - 1 cup
Potato - 2 small ( boiled)
Green chillies - 2 nos
Ginger garlic paste - 1 tsp
Onion - ¼ cup ( chopped)
Baking pd - ¼ tsp
Salt to taste
Oil for frying
For Soup
Besan / Chickpea Flour - 2 tbsp
All purpose Flour - 2 tbsp
Potatoes - 2 Nos
Ginger garlic paste - 1 tsp
Green chillies paste - ½ tsp
Lemon juice - 3 tsp ( adjust according to your taste)
Red chilli pd - ¼ tsp
Turmeric pd - ¼ tsp
Salt to taste
Water - 3 cups ( add more if needed)
For Potato shavings
Potatoes - 3 nos
Red chilli pd - ¼ tsp
Salt to taste
Oil for Frying
For Coconut Chutney
Coconut - 1 cup ( I used dessicated)
Coriander leaves - A hanful
Green chillies -2 nos
Lemon juice - 1 tsp
Ginger - A small piece
Salt to taste
Instructions
For Dar Na Bhajia
Soak the moongdal for 3 hours, drain the water and grind them to a coarse paste, don't add extra water.
Transfer it to a bowl add in the boiled potatoes and mash them well.
Add chopped onions, green chillies and ginger garlic paste to it.
Add salt, baking soda and Mix them well.
Heat oil in a kadai , make equal size balls and drop them in hot oil.
Fry them both sides in low flame till they turn light brown and crispy.
Transfer them to a kitchen towel. Repeat the same for rest of the batter.
For Soup
Chop the potatoes to cubes and boil them in water till they cook or you can even steam the chopped potatoes as I did,
In a sauce pan boil 3 cups of water, In another bowl mix the chickpea flour and all pupose flour.
Dilute the flour with some water, Once the water in the pot starts to boil add the dilute flour mixture to it and stir well other wise lumps might form.
Add red chilli pd, ginger garlic paste,turmeric, salt and let it cook in low flame for about 25 mins or till the soup starts to thicken.
Add the cooked potatoes to the soup and cook them for some more time till there is no raw smell.
Keep the soup warm.
For potato shavings
Grate the potatoes with large holed grater and soak them in water with some salt for half hour.
Drain the water and wash the potatoes or 2 to 3 times.
Drain the water and dry the potatoes with a kitchen towel or a cloth.
Heat oil in a pan and put the grated potato to fry.
Keep stirring and fry the potatoes till light brown.
Transfer it to kitchen towel, then sprinkle some salt and red chilli pd on top.
Toss it all over.
For chutney
Just grind all the ingredients under chutney with some water.
To serve
In a bowl pour in the saucy soup , top them with the bhajias, Coconut chutney , potato shaving . I added meethi chuney too but you can add hot sauce if you like.
Serve the warm and enjoy..
Recipe by Desi Fiesta at https://www.desifiesta.com/2018/04/zanzibar-mix-urojo-soup-recipe-tanzanian-street-food-recipe.html