Pani Puri

I enjoyed eating Pani Puri during the Annual Exhibitions

( That's the only place we get all North Indian Chats in my

town ).Later on I tried Pani Puri at home adopting from

Ms. Mallika Badrinath's recipe.But Lathamma

of The yum blog's recipe is very simple and easy to make too.

For the original recipe see here.

Ingredients

Rava - 1 cup

maida - 1 cup

Wheat flour - 1 cup

salt to taste

Ghee - 1 tblsp

Oil for frying

For the filling

Channa - 1 cup

Potato - 2 medium

Onion - 2 medium chopped

Carrot - 1 no ( grated )

Finely chopped green chilli - 2

Coriander leaves - 2 tblsp

salt to taste

For the Pani

Dates - 2 nos

Tamarind - 3 inch piece ( 2 tsp )

Jaggery - 2 tsp

Black peppercorn - 1 tsp

Cumin - 1 tsp

Coriander seeds - 2 tsp

Green chillies - 1

Mint - 10

Black salt - 1/2 tsp

salt

Method

Soak Channa in water for 8 hrs.Drain the water . Wash the potatoes

and pressure cook along with channa with enough water for 10 min. Peel

the potato and cut into small pieces.Drain the channa and mix everything for filling.

Soak dates and tamarind in water and grind it along with other ingredients

given for the pani.Add 2 cups of water and strain it.Keep it aside.

To make the dough add maida , rava , wheat flour , salt and ghee.Add enough

water to form a dough.Leave it for 15 min.Knead again and make big lemon

sized balls.Roll out the balls into big rounds.Stamp out 2 inch small rounds

using round cookie cutter.

Heat oil in a kadai.In a medium flame , fry few puris at a time.Press

slightly with the back of the laddle so that the puris puff up.Fry till golden

brown.

Serve the puris with pani and channa filling.

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