TOP 5 mouth-watering dishes to hog upon at ANDAGROUND.

I am an egg person, and just love how you can turn up the innovation notch using this simple ingredient. ANDAGROUND is a food truck which had made me intrigued and egg-cited about visiting them. The thing which makes me avoid food trucks is the idea of having a ‘on the go meal’ while not being able to rest on your bottom. Fortunately, they have solved my problem by providing a decent seating arrangement while we indulge into some lip smacking tasty treats. So lets get down with,

EGG/CHICKEN PAAPLET

Starting off with my favorite dish, this one is truly finger licking good. Trust me when I say that it was a quite a challenge for me to choose favorites here, but I had to settle for this yummy affair. What it has in store for you is a complete culinary roller coaster. You start with a big, 2 egg omelette which has chopped onions and some regular spices added to it. Feeling its fluffy-ness, you try to take a bite with your fork. Folding it in half, the insides are filled with pieces of boiled egg, making the apparatus look more big, and tempting. Then comes the most important ingredient of the dish, the medium spicy, red colored,thick mughlai gravy. Top that up with some grated cheese and chopped cilantro.

Paaplet is a blast of flavors. Mughlai gravy plays the role of filling your taste buds and taking them for a ride. Egg whites, known for their smooth texture, slide off gracefully inside your mouth. Omelette is what fills you up and still makes you want to eat some more, just a bit more. Cheese not only makes it look presentable, but adds a bit of savory tang to the meal. Served with crunchy, butter toasted bread, you’ll be asking for seconds before you know it!

They also have a chicken version of this item, in which minced chicken replaces the boiled eggs filling. I personally prefer more of eggs on my plate, but if you are a poultry lover, then by all means go ahead and try the upgraded version of my most loved selection from their menu.

CHICKEN CHEESE GRENADES

This dish is their USP, and it very well deserves to be. Whenever I visit this place, two portions of this bad boy has to be on my table, without fail. You try it yourself and tell me that you didn’t like it, I can bet against it. These yummy explosives are as simple as it can get. Crunchy fried bread rolls, filled with juicy minced chicken. Yes its that simple. You take a bite and the first thing that hits you is that ‘I can make this at home’, and I give that as a compliment. Of course, not to forget being topped with thick liquid cheese, and then a sprinkle of chilly flakes, which works for appealing factor as well as a pleasant spicy impression.

The contrast of crunchy fried outer layer and the peculiar texture of juicy minced chicken makes this dish the most lovable of all. Again, also available in egg and paneer versions, it practically impossible to get down to those toppings, after you have tasted the best.

EK NO. PANEER BHURJI

My vegetarian buddies, people who believe that humans are above killing for food now, you shouldn’t get disappointed reading the name of this food truck. While your friends are enjoying egg and chicken, you can (try to) make them jealous by trying the only weapon on the vegetarian arsenal, COTTAGE CHEESE! You too can enjoy some optically as well as tastefully pleasurable dishes here. The best, among the few they have to offer is Ek number paneer bhurji.

Ek number / ek no. is a slang which we, mumbaikars especially love to use in out everyday conversation. It literally means ‘No.1″, and translates to ‘amazing’ or ‘the best’ in this context.

Though it doesn’t earn the title of being the best scrambled cottage cheese from side, it sure was delicious to make my hands greasy in buttery bread and the spicy paneer bhurji. Paneer chunks scrambled and then put onto a pan containing sauteed veggies and aromatic Indian spices. This one goes well with that butter bread we all like.

MAGIZZA

If you are someone who loves maggie and cheese and eggs, then this fusion dish is absolutely for you! So the base to this pizza is an omelette, and then its filled with a thick and hefty amount of maggie. Topped with cheese, oregano, chilly flakes, coriander and you do have an add on of chicken sausages which is what I opted for myself. It has that unique and tender balance of flavors, which is quite good.

The omelette which serves as the base, does egg-xactly what a pizza base should, provide balancing flavors and not overpower the dish. That job is done by pizza toppings, which here is the masala maggie. Everyone loves these two minutes noodles, and this egg-xquisite way serving it in pizza style deserves nothing but love, appreciation and contentful burps! A stodgy and delicious dish.

EGG MONACO

This dish is somewhat similar to the previous one, in the sense that this too has a pizza representation. Here, the base is made of bread, which is coated with egg omelette, something on the lines of a french toast. Its like there is an omelette, whose insides are of bread. Then its topped with a good amount of cheese and then cut into square pieces. Then each piece has half of a boiled egg, serving as the cherry on the cake, and then topped with onions and coriander.

Its something similar to fusion of pizza, egg, omelette and sev puri. What you actually taste is the boiled egg with cheese, and a bit of spice and crunch due to the chopped onions. Though I do wonder why its called egg monaco….

So here was a delicious ‘To eat’ list the next time you are in the Baner-Aundh area and looking for some reasonably affordable and delicious egg preparations.

Happy Burping!!!

P.S- Here’s the link to the zomato profile of Andaground.