Salem Thattuvadai Set/Nippat Sandwich

Thattuvadai set is a most popular street food in Salem,Tamilnadu. Being a Salem girl/ Salemite, I used to have this snack at least once in a week before my marriage. Last week I went to my mom's place and bought few thattuvadai set for my family. I captured the making at that time and added a video here. I asked that anna about the chutney ingredients. He told the recipe roughly & he said this chutney stays good only for 3 hours. So make it fresh and serve.

Based on his recipe, I tried it on my own. It came out well. If you buy a packet of readymade thattu vadai , making this thattu vadai set would be very easy and quick. But I prepared everything by my own including thattu vadai. So I found it a bit time consuming. Finally I was very much satisfied with the outcome.

Salem Thattu Vadai Set Recipe

How to make Salem special thattu vadai set with video !

Cuisine: Indian

Category: Sweet

Serves: 4

Prep time: 10 Minutes

Cook time: 20 Minutes

Total time: 30 Minutes

INGREDIENTS
1 cup - 250ml

FOR GREEN CHUTNEY Mint leaves - 1/2 cup Coriander leaves – 1/4 cup (optional,He told to use only mint leaves) Green chillies – 2 nos Tamarind – Small berry size OR use few drops of lime juice Salt & water – As needed. FOR RED CHUTNEY Cooking oil - 1 tbsp Tomato - 3 nos Big onion - 1 Red chilly – 5 nos Garlic cloves - 4 (optional, I used it) Salt – as needed Water – As required. Roasted gram – 1 tbsp (pottukadalai),optional FOR FILLING Finely chopped onions – as needed Grated carrot – as needed Grated beetroot - as needed ( i din't use as it was out of stock) Chopped coriander leaves – a handful Grated mango - as needed ( used during mango season) Lemon – 1/2 no

HOW TO MAKE  SALEM THATTU VADAI SET - METHOD

Saute the tomato, onion, red chilly adding salt in a tsp of oil. Grind it to a thick paste adding required water. Add pottukadalai/fried gram if you wish. You can also saute 4 garlic cloves along with tomato. Prepare the green chutney by grinding all the ingredients given under “ Green chutney” to a fine thick paste. Grate the onions, carrots, beetroot and chop coriander leaves. Mix well and set aside. Cut the lemon and keep it ready. Take 2 thatta vadai/Nippat for making one set. Apply red chutney on one side of thattai and green chutney to one side of other thattai. Keep little filling in between like a sandwich. Sprinkle lemon juice and close the sandwich. Serve immediately. I enjoyed it with coffee :) Enjoy !