>MB: cleanup, typo(s) fixed: bengali → Bengali

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cleanup, typo(s) fixed: bengali → Bengali

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{{short description|Snack originating from the Indian subcontinent}}
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{{Infobox food

|name=Dhoper Chop (ঢপের চপ)
|type=[[Snack food|Snack]]
|Served=Hot
|main_ingredient=[[Potato]]es, [[Bread]]s, [[Spice]]s, [[herb]]s
|region=[[West Bengal]]}}
'''Dhoper chop''' ({{lang-bn|ঢপের চপ}}) <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.radiomirchi.com/kolkata/whats-hot/audio/listen/how-to-cook-a-dhoper-chop/33250|title=How To Cook A 'Dhoper Chop'.|website=radiomirchi.com}}</ref> is a snack originating from the [[Indian subcontinent]], in [[West Bengal]] preparation, it is a huge egg-shaped snack in a bread jacket with ketchup and onion salad and sometimes with a cup of tea.<ref>{{cite book |author=Richa Hingle |title=Vegan Richa's Indian Kitchen: Traditional and Creative Recipes for the Home Cook |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LCUCBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT65 |year=2015 |publisher=Vegan Heritage Press |isbn=978-1-941252-10-9 |page=65 }}</ref> It is purely a Bengali dish (Chop).

==Etymology==
The word "Dhop" is a [[Bengali language|Bengali]] word which means " a lie" and the word "chop" means a small [[cutlet]][[fritters]] or [[Croquette]] in [[Bengali language|Bengali]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://jualumnihyd.org/?p=613|title=Milandar Canteen and Dhoper Chop – An Introspection | Megh Peon|website=jualumnihyd.org}}</ref> Milon Kanti Dey told "The telegraph" during an interview in the year 2007 “Students request me to prepare anything that they like at the canteen. Some of them must have had bread pakoras elsewhere and I had tried to make it for them. When they tasted it and asked me what should I call it, I asked them to name it and they called it Dhoper (a lie) Chop,
I make a jacket of bread and fill it with stuffing of potato, sometimes blended with chicken or mutton. It is dipped into a mixture of flour, butter and egg and fried.”<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/states/west-bengal/chop-of-the-pops/cid/1008319|title=Chop of the pops|website=telegraphindia.com}}</ref>

==Origin==
The exact origin of the snack is [[Jadavpur University]]'s Milonda's canteen, and the time invented is a winter month in the year 1972. Milon Kanti Dey is known as the inventor of the snack.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.outlookindia.com/blog/story/rip-milon-da-most-javadpur-universitys-kinships-started-at-this-chaiwalas-cantee/3926|title=RIP 'Milon Da'! Most Jadavpur University's Kinships Started At This Chaiwala's Canteen|website=outlookindia.com/}}</ref> When he was alive, he often told students of Jadhavpur, how he stumbled upon Dhoper Chop. Some students of the Arts Department asked him one day to do something new. He made a bread pakora in new style and stuffed it with meat. He is also an inventor of different types of Bengali snacks which are unnamed till today.

==Ingredients==
Ingredients vary according to the region and the type of meat or vegetables used. Potatoes, and sometimes meat are prime ingredient with white bread. The spices used in Dhoper Chop <ref name="Bergerson2009">{{cite book |author=Sephi Bergerson |title=Street Food Of India |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cipVAAAAYAAJ |year=2009 |publisher=Roli Books |isbn=978-81-7436-571-2 |page=91 }}</ref> may include onion, green chilies, pepper, cumin powder, garam masala powder, Kashmiri chili powder, coriander powder, salt, ghee, butter or any vegetable oil.<ref>{{cite book |author=Neelam Batra |title=1,000 Indian Recipes |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UmQ9hLYcULMC&pg=PA19-IA33 |year=2011 |publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |isbn=978-0-544-18910-2 |page=19 }}</ref> The dish may be served with onion, salad, ketchup, fried potatoes, and sometimes with a cup of tea.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://thebengalstory.com/english/the-end-of-an-era-at-jadavpur-university/|title=The End of an Era at Jadavpur University|date=24 July 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite newspaper |url=http://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/food-wine/tea-time-snack-how-about-aloo-bread-pakora-this-evening/ |title=Tea-time snack: How about Aloo Bread Pakora this evening |author=Nisha Madhulika |publisher=Indian Express |date=3 February 2015 }}</ref><ref>{{cite newspaper |url=http://www.livemint.com/Leisure/abHoUiDcKPuq7fERKwAqZM/Carb-snobs-look-away.html |title=Carb snobs, look away |author=Vatsala Mamgain |newspaper=[[Mint (newspaper)|Mint]] |date=5 December 2015 }}</ref>

==See also==
* {{annotated link|List of chickpea dishes}}
* {{annotated link|List of Indian dishes}}
* {{annotated link|List of street foods}}

==References==
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{{Potato dishes}}
{{Street food}}
{{Indian dishes}}

[[Category:Potato dishes]]
[[Category:Indian cuisine]]
[[Category:Indian snack foods]]
[[Category:Indian fast food]]

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>MB: cleanup, typo(s) fixed: bengali → Bengali