Indian food

Khasta kachori

Also called: Khasta kachori, Кхаста качори, Kachori, Качори

A flaky fried pastry the size of a fist, stuffed with spiced lentils and asafoetida, cracked open and drowned in potato curry. Haridwar eats it for breakfast, standing at the counter.

How it's eaten

Break the top, spoon the sabzi inside, eat with your hands before it goes soft.

Where to try it

Haridwar

Two lanes off Bara Bazaar have shops that sell nothing else, and have sold nothing else for decades.

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