This is an AI-generated image.

Fuchka

Name: Fuchka
Total time: 40 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Bangladesh
Ingredients: 24 Fuchka (Puri) Shells; 2 Potato; 100g (canned) Chickpeas; 1/2 Red Onion; 1 Green Chili Pepper; To taste Cilantro; 2 tbsp Tamarind paste; 1 tsp Cumin powder; 1/2 tsp Chili powder; 1 tbsp Sugar; 1 tsp Salt; 1 Hard-boiled eggs; 300ml Water

Snack

⏱ 40 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Thin hollow fried shells filled with spiced potato and tangy tamarind water, eaten in one bite — a street-food star.

📱 Open in Storage App

🚧 The Storage app is currently in development. Please check back soon.

📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Fuchka is a street snack in the same family as India's pani puri and golgappa, hugely popular in Bangladesh especially among young people and women. You poke a hole in the top of a thin fried shell, fill it with spiced potato and chickpeas, pour in sour tamarind water, and pop it in your mouth before it collapses. Topping it with grated boiled egg is the Dhaka style.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At a stall outside a university in the evening, students line up with paper plates as the vendor fills fuchka at lightning speed and hands them over.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Fuchka (Puri) Shells 24
Potato 2
Chickpeas 100g (canned)
Red Onion 1/2
Green Chili Pepper 1
Cilantro To taste
Tamarind paste 2 tbsp
Cumin powder 1 tsp
Chili powder 1/2 tsp
Sugar 1 tbsp
Salt 1 tsp
Hard-boiled eggs 1
Water 300ml

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Boil and mash the potatoes and mix with the chickpeas, chopped red onion, green chili, cilantro, cumin, chili powder, and half the salt.
Dissolve the tamarind paste in water and add the sugar, remaining salt, and a little cumin to make sweet-sour tamarind water.
Poke a small hole in the top of each shell with your finger.
Fill with the potato mixture.
Top with grated boiled egg.
Pour in tamarind water just before eating and eat in one bite.

← More Bangladesh recipes 🗺 Explore another country