Snack
Baked Brinjals
Batter-fried brinjal rounds layered with tomato sauce and cheese and baked until bubbling and golden on top.
Boat Egg
Boiled egg halves cut into little boats, filled with a butter-and-pepper mashed yolk, and finished with a triangular bread-slice "sail" propped in as a garnish.
Capsicum Egg
Blanched bell peppers stuffed with a coconut-vegetable filling, topped with egg and cheese, and baked.
Crisp Groundnuts
Groundnuts briefly boiled with garlic, skinned by hand, and deep-fried in a wire basket for an extra-glossy, crisp finish.
Finger Chips
Finger-cut potatoes rinsed to remove starch, dried, and deep-fried in small batches until lightly golden.
Spicy Sev
A spiced gram-flour dough pressed through a sev mould directly into hot oil and fried crisp.
Meat Uppuma
Roasted semolina cooked into pre-simmered spiced meat and its broth, seasoned with whole spices.
Moong Dal Banzi
A spiced moong dal and potato dough patted between banana leaves and griddle-cooked until the leaf chars and the inside sets.
Pop Corn
Popcorn kernels popped in spiced oil on the stovetop, seasoned with salt, pepper, and garam masala.
Potato Chips
Thin potato rounds deep-fried in Dalda until golden, then dusted with chilli powder and salt and stored airtight to stay crisp.
Stuffed Capsicum
Capsicum halves blanched and filled with a spiced mixed-vegetable masala, sealed with a gram-flour paste, and pan-cooked until tender.
Stuffed Tomatoes
Tomato shells filled with a sauteed vegetable-and-pulp masala, topped with cheese, and baked until bubbling.
Vegetable Cones
Ribbons of the same laminated puff pastry wound around cone moulds, baked or fried crisp, and filled with spiced vegetables.
Vegetable Pan Cake
Raw shredded vegetables rolled inside a thin maida sheet, coiled into a spiral, rolled flat again, and griddle-fried crisp.
Vegetable Puffs
Hand-laminated maida pastry folded into triangles around a spiced mixed-vegetable filling and baked until golden and flaky.
Vol-au-vent Cases
Extra-flaky puff pastry rounds baked into hollow cases, filled with spiced vegetables, and topped with a pastry lid.