Pani Puri Recipe
Pani Puri Recipe - This is a popular Indian street food where crispy puris are hollowed out and filled with a vegetarian filling of potatoes and flavoured chutneys/water that are sweet, sour and spicy.
Ingredients
Potato Filling
- 2 large Potatoes Peeled and Boiled
- 1/2 Red Onion Diced
- 1 heaped tbsp Coriander Rinsed & Chopped
- 1/2 tsp Cumin Powder
- 1/2 tsp Coriander Powder
- 1/2 tsp Chilli Powder
- 1/4 tsp Ground Black Pepper
- Salt to taste
Tamarind & Date Water
- 3 tbsp Tamarind Paste
- 1 ½ tbsp Date Syrup
- 3 tbsp Light Brown Sugar or Jaggery blended to a powder
- 1 inch Ginger crushed
- 1/2 tsp Ground Coriander Powder
- 1 ½ tsp Cumin Powder
- ¼ tsp Ground Black Pepper
- ¼ tsp Red Chilli Powder
- 750 ml Water
Coriander & Mint Water
- ½ bunch Coriander Leaves and Stems, Rinsed & Chopped
- 10 Mint Leaves Rinsed & Chopped
- 1 inch Ginger crushed
- 2 Green Chillies
- 2 tbsp Brown Sugar or Jaggery blended to a powder
- 1 tsp Ground Cumin
- 1 tsp Chaat Masala
- Salt
- 750 ml Water
Puris
- 30 Small Puris
Topping
- Chopped Red Onion
- Sev
Instructions
- Combine all the ingredients for the potato filling and mash together till combined. At this stage you can also add chickpeas if you wish.
- Blend all the ingredients for Tamarind & Date Water. Decant into a bowl.
- Blend all the inhredients for the Coriander and Mint Water. Decant into a bowl.
Assemble
- Poke a hole in a Puri using your thumb or a knife.
- Add 1 tbsp of the potato filling, onion and sev.
- Dip the puris in the Coriander & Mint Water and the Date and Tamarind Water.
Notes
Before filling - Taste the different elements before filling the puris and adjust seasoning, sweetness etc. according to your taste.
Nutrition
Calories: 45kcalCarbohydrates: 3gProtein: 1gFat: 1gSaturated Fat: 1gSodium: 14mgPotassium: 11mgFiber: 1gSugar: 2gVitamin A: 29IUVitamin C: 1mgCalcium: 6mgIron: 1mg
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