Assalamu Alaikum

Hello friends

I am @jollymonoara from Bangladesh.

Food is something that we eat when we are hungry and eat when we are not. Because we love to eat. There are some foods that we eat every day for our physical needs and some foods that we enjoy very much. These foods not only calm our mind but also make us feel satisfied. There are certain foods that just make me want to eat them and I eat them with great satisfaction. A food that is generally loved by everyone for making the mind feel better.

So in the @steem4bangladesh community, Admin @ripon0630 has organized a contest about a food that improves mood. In this contest, I will present my favorite dish and show you the steps to make it that will make you want to eat it too.

Contest : Food for Mood (Chotpati and fuchka)

Chotpati is a food that has a sour, spice and sweet taste. Generally speaking, there are few people whose mouth does not water at the sight of any sour food. I don't know if everyone does but my tongue is watering.

In our country there are many small street shops where many people throng just to eat this delicious food. It is especially seen in front of schools, colleges and universities. Boys and girls eat this food every day.

I like this food so much that I want to eat it when I see it. When I was a student, I used to buy and eat wherever I saw Chatpati being sold. But now considering hygiene I make it at home often anytime and eat it with all my family very happily.

This food not only improves my mood but also creates a buzz in my mind. I feel like I go back to those days.

Once upon a time, I used to go from Jurain to Dhaka's New Market with my family and friends from university just for this food. There will be only eating and no shopping. With how much joy I would take a plate of chatpati and a plate of fuchka for myself. What can I say about the taste?

It also happened that I didn't have breakfast every day while going to college. Back then, I used to enjoy eating a plate for 10 taka and my stomach would be full. Besides, it didn't cost more than 30 taka outside. But now if you want to eat at a good fast food shop, it costs 100 taka for a plate.

Once in my student life I used to eat this chataoti every day, whenever I went out I would buy a plate of chatpati and eat it or buy it from outside and take it home. But now I don't want to eat out, eating this food outside gives me stomach acidity problems. So even though it's hard, I cook at home and eat what I can eat every day.

But then I don't have to count how many chotpati plates of this food I eat and I don't have to pay money either.So whenever I want to eat I just buy dubli and make it and eat it very happily.

Chotpati

Step 1

The process of making this is very simple. First I will soak these Ghugni dal or motors in normal water for 6 hours.
After six hours wash it well and boil it in a pan with water.

Here I have done the cooking process very quickly to give it to this contest. So I boiled it in a pressure cooker. However, if cooked in a pressure cooker it can be cooked in 10-15 minutes or it may take 1-1 1/2 hours.

I added salt ,1/2 teaspoon each of turmeric, chilli and coriander powder while cooking to make this dish colourful. You can add this masala powder optional or omit it.

You can add this masala powder optional or omit it.

STEP 2

In another pan I will boil eggs and potatoes.

Step 3

Again I will make masala to be mixed in the chatpati , I will not give any market-ready masala for the chatapati. Lightly fry all the spices in a pan and grind them in a blender when cool.

Masala ingredients
cardamom
cinnamon
dry chili
cumin
Panchfodan

Step 4

Now take some tamarind and wash it and soak it in water. When the tamarind is wet, I will make a juice with a sour, bitter and sweet taste with water, sugar, salt and chotpati spices.

Cut the potatoes and eggs and keep them aside. Now chop onion, green chili,coriander leaves and cucumber and keep it in a separate bowl.

My Chotpati complete preparation is over.

Step 5

Now I will mix everything one by one with the boiled mixture. At the end, I will serve with sour water and fuchka. If I give it a fuchka, it tastes better, so I added it by breaking the fuchka.

Step 6

I can eat this chatpati in two ways such as by breaking the Fuchka in boiled peas/motor , mixing it with sour cream and eating it with a spoon, and filling a Fuchka with boiled peas and sour water. The food test is the same but the process is different.

Fuchka