Top 10 Best Foods To Eat In The Rainy Season

Ah, the taste of hot bhajiyas and pakoras on the street stalls while the rain drizzles down is heavenly! Those spicy fried chilis, chicken pakoras and potato fritters that come along with flavoursome chutneys will give you a vibe like none other. Have them with some ‘cutting chai’ and experience the best monsoon feeling ever. And yes, have it while it's still hot. Don’t be sad if you can’t go outside. Make it at home! Whip a simple batter and cut a few pieces of potatoes, onions, chickens or whatever you like! Dunk them in the batter, deep fry them and pair them with some sweet and spicy chutney!

Looking for a drool-worthy snack this rainy season? Then, samosas are for you. Gone are the days, when people ate only one type of samosa. Now you can select from a wide variety of these. There are chicken samosas, paneer samosas, pasta samosas, keema samosas, and even chocolate samosa! With so many variations to try, you just can’t ask for more! And if you want to make them at home, you can! Just make a filling with your favourite ingredients and wrap them in flour dough.

Whether you love your food spicy or non-spicy, corn or bhutta is the best monsoon food that you can try from the nearest stall. Just get some roasted bhutta from the ‘bhutta waala bhaiya’ and ask him to garnish it with spices and loads of lemon juice. Now enjoy these with friends and loved ones. Or order the corn online and roast it on a tawa or so! Add some lemon juice and salt and your monsoon snack is ready!

If this is your favourite, just like ours, then have it during the monsoon for a unique experience. A plate of delectable vegetarian or chicken momos will add to the glory of rainy weather. Served with mayonnaise and spicy chutney, these steamy momos will take you to the doorway of heaven. Apart from steamed momos, you can also go for the fried and pan-fried ones.

This snack item is one of the top monsoon snacks, if not the best. The vadas placed in pavs served with green chillies and spicy chutney will give you just the taste you need on a cloudy day. You can enjoy them as a complete dinner or as a snack or both ways! Have it from a local food stall for an even better taste. A tip? Crush it down and make a chaat out of it. Absolutely lip-smacking! Also, if you are planning a monsoon getaway to any Maharashtrian city, you can get the authentic taste of this dish!

Let’s face it! When it comes to jalebi, you just can’t resist. Hot jalebi and the rainy season are a match made in heaven (sorry rabri!). Add this sweet dish to your monsoon dishes checklist and you won’t regret it a bit! Get some hot samosas (or you can prepare them at home) to go with it and relish it as you admire the weather. And remember to have the jalebis hot!

If you are health conscious, idli sambar is for you. Perfect for rainy season snacks, this is a much healthier version. Steamed idlis served with spicy sambar is a perfect balance of flavours to satiate your taste buds. Dip the idli into steaming hot sambar and take a bite and believe us, you will be on cloud 9. Plus, your body weight will also be intact! And yes, you can make them at home or order online.

The list of monsoon food items is incomplete without pav bhaji. A plate of pav bhaji will melt all your worries away. All you have to do is take a tawa fried pav, dip it into hot and buttery bhaji and have a bite. The soft and buttery taste will take you to some other world. You can eat it along with onions to add to the taste and crunch of this recipe.

Be it your home or street-side chaat corner, these snack items are sure to give you a splendid experience. Be it paani puri, bhel puri or papri chaat, all these items go well with the cold rains. In fact, this is the most common food we eat in rainy season that never goes wrong! Just top these items with some curd, sev and coriander leaves and you are good to go! Also, there’s no rule for making chats. Just take something crunchy, some chutneys and chopped onions. Put them all on a plate, give a mix and voila!

A bowl of hot soup, whether with vegetables or chicken, is all you need to add to your monsoon diet. There are so many recipes and we are sure you have some recipes as well. If you don’t take this one! Put potatoes, carrots and chicken (if you want a nonvegetarian version), black pepper and salt in a pan or pressure cooker and let it boil for some time. It will be really simple but very fulfilling! And yes, you can have your soup with some whole-grain crackers.

So what is your pick? Is it the fried stuff or the healthier options? Well, we like all of them!