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Maunika Gowardhan

Stuffed battered chillies and chilli cheese toasties: Maunika Gowardhan’s favourite Holi snacks – recipes

Maunika Gowardhan's Bombay chilli cheese toastie.
Maunika Gowardhan’s Bombay chilli cheese toastie. Photograph: Ola O Smit/The Guardian. Food styling: El Kemp. Prop styling: Hannah Wilkinson. Food styling assistant: Georgia Rudd.

Celebrate Holi, the festival of colours and the arrival of spring, with sumptuous, delicious and addictive snacks. The bharwa mirchi pakode ki chaat is full of flavour and topped with tamarind, green chutney and chaat masala. Alongside it, a street-food favourite from my home town of Mumbai: the classic chilli cheese toastie stuffed with potato, peppers and green chutney. Both are the sort of dishes you can eat at any time of day, and the unifying ingredient is the humble potato, which I feel is the backbone of Indian cooking, be it in curries, stir-fries, flatbreads, snacks and even raitas.

Bombay chilli cheese toastie (pictured top)

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