PANI PURI

now is there any1 who don't like pani puri... the favorite street food of everyone... the second i think about pani puri my mouth starts watering... i love pani puri sooooo much... wen ever me and my sisters meet in bangalore, we make sure that we go have panipuri at our favorite shop...  

many don't prefer having pani puri on roadside because they are not sure of the water used in making pani.. so now everyone can prepare this yummy tasty recipe at home and njoy it with out any doubts...  

TIME TAKEN: 30 MINS, SERVES: 5 -6 

INGREDIENTS:

PANI PURI	1 PACKET (YOU CAN GET THESES PACKETS IN ALL LEADING SUPER MARKETS, I GET THEM IN NILGIRIS EVERYTIME)
FOR STUFFING:
POTATOES	250 GRAMS
GREEN PEAS	QUARTER CUP
ONIONS	2 MEDIUM (FINELY CHOPPED)
FRESH CORIANDER	4 – 5 tbsps. (FINELY CHOPPED)
SALT	TO TASTE
CHILLI POWDER	1 tsp
ROASTED JEERA (CUMIN) POWDER	½ tsp
FOR PANI:
PUDHINA (MINT LEAVES)	1 CUP
FRESH CORIANDER	½ CUP
GREEN CHILLI’S	3
TAMARIND	LEMON SIZE
BLACK SALT	½ tsp
SALT	TO TASTE

METHOD:

 Ø  Peel the potatoes and Pressure cook potatoes and peas with 1 ½ cup water for 3 – 4 whistles. Once the pressure is released, open the lid, transfer the cooked potatoes and peas into a plate and mash them, add chilli powder, salt, roasted cumin powder, chopped onions, fresh coriander and mix everything together.

 

 Ø  For pani, soak the tamarind in warm water and extract the juice from it. Wash the mint leaves, fresh coriander and green chilli’s and grind them together. Add the grounded pudhina paste to the tamarind juice and add 2 cups water, salt and black salt to it and mix it well. Taste the pani and if u feel tamarind is more in it add water accordingly and adjust it to your taste.

 Ø  For sweet chutney, 3 tbsp of thick tamarind paste, 30 grams jaggery, 1 tsp chili powder, 1 tsp black salt, roasted and crushed cumin seeds, salt to taste, half cup water and boil everything together until it turns thick.

     This is an optional, chat items are always served with sweet sauce. Sweet pani is served for pani puri. You can add water to the above mentioned sweet sauce and use it as sweet pani. Usaually I add ½ tsp of the sweet sauce to the puri’s directly on top of the stuff and serve them.

 Ø  Take a puri make a hole on one side and stuff the potato mix, and deep them in pani and serve it…

Yummy yummy panipuri is ready to serve…

SUGGESTIONS:

 ü  Do not deep the puri’s for longer time in water, since they will turn soft and break.

 ü  You can also squeeze lemon in the pani prepared.

 ü  There is panipuri masala available in market which you can add to the pani. I don’t use it since I don’t like the taste.