Bhel (tribe)
Bhel or BHEL may refer to: * ''Aegle marmelos'', a fruit tree native to India * ''Bhel puri'', or bhelpuri, a type of chaat (snack food) * Chinese bhel, an Indian noodle dish, and street food variant of the chop suey, popular in Mumbai, India * Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) is an Indian central public sector undertaking. It is under the ownership of Ministry of Heavy Industries, Government of India. It is based in New Delhi, India. Established in 1956, BHEL is India' ...

Aegle Marmelos
''Aegle marmelos'', commonly known as bael (or ''bili'' or ''bhel''), also Bengal quince, golden apple, Japanese bitter orange, stone apple or wood apple, is a rare species of tree native to the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia. It is present in India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Nepal as a naturalized species. The tree is considered to be sacred by Hindus. Description ''Aegle marmelos'' is a deciduous shrub or small to medium-sized tree, up to tall with slender drooping branches and rather open, irregular crown. The bark is pale brown or grayish, smooth or finely fissured and flaking, armed with long straight spines, singly or in pairs, often with slimy sap oozing out from cut parts. The gum is also described as a clear, gummy sap, resembling gum arabic, which exudes from wounded branches and hangs down in long strands, becoming gradually solid. It is sweet at first taste and then irritating to the throat. The leaf is trifoliate, alternate, each leaflet x , ovate ...
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Bhelpuri
Bhelpuri is a savoury snack originating from India, and is also a type of chaat. It is made of puffed rice, vegetables and a tangy tamarind sauce, and has a crunchy texture. Bhel is often identified as a 'beach snack', strongly associated with the beaches of Mumbai, such as Chowpatty or Juhu. One theory for its origin is that it was invented at a restaurant called Vithal near Victoria Terminus. According to another theory, bhelpuri was conceived by the city's Gujarati community, who made it by adding complex flavours to the simple North Indian chaat. Gujarati housewives began making it, and invented several varieties like the pakodi puri, and as it spread in popularity so many different communities made their own regional variations. The original Mumbai recipe has spread to most parts of India, where it has been modified to suit local food availability. Dry bhel is made from bhadang, a spicy namkeen from Western Maharashtra, and is consumed after garnishing with onions, corian ...
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Chaat
Chaat, or chāt (IAST: ''cāṭ)'' () is a family of savoury snacks that originated in North India, typically served as an hors d'oeuvre or at roadside tracks from stalls or food carts across South Asia in North India, Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh. With its origins in Uttar Pradesh, India, chaat has become immensely popular in the rest of South Asia. Etymology The word derives from Hindi ''cāṭ'' चाट (tasting, a delicacy), from ''cāṭnā'' चाटना (to lick, as in licking one's fingers while eating), from Prakrit ''caṭṭei'' चट्टेइ (to devour with relish, eat noisily).Oxford English Dictionary. ''Chaat''. Mar. 2005 Online edition. Retrieved 18 February 2008. Overview The chaat variants are all based on fried dough, with various other ingredients. The original chaat is a mixture of potato pieces, crisp fried bread dahi vada or dahi bhalla, gram or chickpeas and tangy-salty spices, with sour Indian chili and saunth (dried ginger and tam ...
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Chinese Bhel
Chinese bhel is a fast food and street food item in India and is considered a part of Indo-Chinese cuisine. It is a variant of chop suey and bhelpuri. It is popular in Mumbai. Ingredients Like most street food items, the recipe of Chinese bhel has many variants. The basic ingredients present in every recipe are crisp fried noodles, raw shredded cabbage, and one or more hot sauces. These ingredients are throughly mixed together in the style of making a bhelpuri. The sauces could be Schezwan sauce, red chilli sauce, and/ or tomato ketchup. In addition, it may contain one or more of these ingredients: finely chopped onion, sliced capsicum, diced carrot, soya sauce, salt, black pepper powder, ajinomoto, vingegar, and raw garlic paste in varying quantities. Sometimes chopped spring onion is used for garnishing. Criticism Chinese bhel stalls in Mumbai were criticized for poor hygiene and were suspected to have caused a hepatitis E epidemic over a two-month period in 2011. The Muni ...
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