Chips Masala

The Indo-East African One

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    • Difficulty

      Easy

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Sanjana Feasts: Modern vegetarian and vegan Indian recipes to feed your soul

By Sanjana Modha

Published 2024

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A hot and sour masala for sprinkling on chips (potato fries). This simple mix-and-sprinkle masala requires no blender. A zap of sherbet freshness comes courtesy of baobab powder, a seed from the fruit of East Africa’s indigenous baobab tree. The fruit is a hard shell covered in velvety green fuzz. Crack it open to reveal hundreds of creamy white powdery seeds caught in a web of wispy, orange fibres. The seeds are duck face-inducingly sour. The powder is either harvested from the seeds or th