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Mom's Homemade Pani Puri

Servings: 4 people
Author: Megha Patel

Ingredients

Puri

  • 2 cups Pani Puri Flour I use Deep brand
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 3/4 cup seltzer

Chana & Potato

  • 2 potatoes cooked to fork tender
  • 2 cups black chana cooked to fork tender
  • 2 serrano peppers chopped
  • cayenne pepper per taste
  • sanchar per taste
  • salt per taste

Pani

  • 2 large bunches of mint about 8-10 cups
  • 4 cloves garlic
  • 10 thai chili peppers
  • 1 bunch cilantro about 1 cup
  • 1 tbsp lemon juice
  • 2 tsp sanchar
  • salt per taste
  • 7-7.5 cups water

Instructions

Puri

  • Mix together your pani puri flour, salt and seltzer water. Knead until it becomes a dough. Set aside for 10 minutes.
  • Make little balls with the dough and then roll each ball out. You can make as big or as small as you'd like. Or, you can roll large amounts of dough and use a mini circle cookie cutter to cut out shapes.
  • Fry the puri's until golden brown and store them in an air tight container.

Chana & Potato

  • In a pressure cooker or your microwave, cook the chana and potatoes until fork tender. Dice the potatoes small, and slightly mash the chana and mix everything together. Add diced serrano peppers. Also add cayenne pepper, sanchar and salt per your taste.

Pani

  • In a blender, add your mint, garlic, thai chili's, cilantro, lemon juice and salt per taste. Blend until everything is broken up and it looks like a thick paste or chutney.
  • Add about 7-7.5 cups of water to the paste. You can add as little or as much water per your preference.
  • Add 2 tsp of sanchar to the pani and mix everything together.

Assembly

  • Poke holes in the puri's.
  • Fill them up with the chana & potatoes.
  • Add as much pani as you'd like & enjoy!