Dabeli

Dabeli: an illustration of potato and butter on bread.

Dabeli

Bite into a dabeli and four things land on the same beat: soft potato, bursting pomegranate, peanut salt, sev crackle. No sequence, everything at once or not at all.

Dabeli Classic: an illustration of potato and chutney on bread.

Dabeli Classic

A boxed spice mix is why a dabeli in Pune tastes like one in Mandvi. The classic is a strict stack: sweet potato under masala peanuts, sev, onion and pomegranate, on a Kutch blend sold by the case.