Sunday 1 May 2011

Pani Puri Recipe

Ingredients:


For pani
250 gm fresh mint (pudina)
100 gm tamarind (imli)
a pinch asafoetida (hing)
1 tsp roasted cumin powder (jeera)
1 tsp rock salt (kala namak)
salt to taste
1/2 tsp black pepper powder (kali mirch)
2 tsp jaljeera powder
For Puri (Golgappa)
2 cup semolina (suji)
1/2 tsp salt (namak)
100 gm oil
For Filling
4 potato (alu)
1/2 tsp salt (namak)
1 tsp red chilly powder (lal mirch)

How to make Pani Puri:
  • Soak tamarind in 1 cup water for 2 hours.
  • Then mash with hands and take out its seeds.
  • Strain the pulp and keep aside.
  • Grind fresh mint in a mixer.
  • Put 5 cups water in a container.
  • Mix fresh mint, tamarind pulp, asafoetida, roasted cumin powder, rock salt, black pepper powder and jaljeera powder.
  • Now mix salt and 100 gm oil in semolina and knead into hard dough.
  • Cover it with a wet cloth and leave aside for 2 hours.
  • Make small balls of it and roll into small chapattis.
  • Heat oil in a pan and fry all golgappas from both sides until they turn brown.
  • Spread them so that they get crispy.
  • For filling golgappa, boil and mash potato.
  • Mix salt and red chilly powder in it.
  • Just when you start eating, make a hole in the centre of golgappa and fill with potatoes and dip in jaljeera.
  • Enjoy spicy, khatte meethe golgappe.