Pani puri / Golgappa

Pani puri is a popular street food in which crispy poori filled with  potato, sprouted grams , channa  etc and the filling ,may vary from street to sreet....

Ingredients :

For paani :

• Mint leaves : 1/4 cup
• Coriander leaves : 1/4 cup
• Green chilly : 1
• Ginger : 1/2 " 
• Tamarind : 2tblspn
• Jaggery grated / sarkkara / vellam: 1 tblspn
• Roasted cumin ( jeera ) powder : 1/2 tspn
• Black pepper : 1/2 tspn
• Black salt : 1 tspn
• Chat masala / Amchur powder : 1 tspn
• Cold water : 3 cup

For Sweet chutney :

• Dates : 12
• Tamarind : 1tblspn
• Jaggery grated : 1 tblspn
• Chat masala / Amchur powder : 1/2 tspn
• Chilly powder : 1 tspn
• Cumin  powder : 1/2 tspn
• Salt

For potato filling :

• Potato(Boiled and mashed)
• Chat masala / Amchur powder : 1 tspn : 1 big
• Onion chopped : 1 medium
• Green chilly chopped : 1
• Roasted cumin powder : 1 tspn
• Red chilly powder : 1/2 tspn
• Coriander leaves : few
• Salt

For Poori :

• Rava (semolina ) : 1/2 cup
• Maida 1.5 tblspn
• Soda powder : A pinch
• Water : As required
• Salt

Method :

Pani :

• Grind all the ingredients together to a smooth paste.
• Strain it and mix it with cold water.
• Or keep it in fridge

Sweet chutney :

• Boil dates and jaggery together (if your jaggery contains impurities dissolve it in water and filter.Then boil dates in this filtered water.)
• Grind it in to smooth paste.
• Soak tamarind in water and take extract and add this to ground dates paste.
• Let it boil and add salt , chat masala , jeera powder, and chilly powder

Potato filling :

• Mix all the ingredients together.

Poori :

• Combine rava maida salt and soda powder together
• Add water  little by little and make  stiff dough . Let it be there for 15 minutes.
• Knead it well and make small lemon sized ball.
• Roll it in to big chapathi and cut it in to small pooris with a lid
• heat a kadai with oil  slide each pooris and press it gently with laddle.
• Flip it over and cook other side too.
• Drain it and keep it an air tight container.

How to assemble pani poori :

• Make a small hole in the center of each poori.
• Drop a teaspoon of potato filling then sweet chutney and finally spread some sev too.
• While serving pour pani over it and eat

Notes :

• For filling you may use cooked channa ,green gram green peas etc
• Instead of sev use boondi also.
• You may avoid onion in potato filling,