PANI PURI

Lets start with “Pani puri”

Pani puri is the king of chats ……its also called golgappa or puchka etc etc.what ever may be the name it has unique style of serving and eating, usually panipuri is to be eaten roadside “panipuri ka thela “ its taste is bcoz of its pani….its spicy sour and sweet……mmm yummy, the style of panipuri depends on place to place…bcoz of the stuffing they use, like potato,White peas and also bundi…but the pani is more or less same taste….

Ingredients:

Baked potato                                     2 small

White peas(opt)                                 ½ cup

Ice cold water                                    ½ liter

Green chutney                                   2 tbsp

Meetha chutney                                 1 tbsp

cumin powder                                    1 tsp

chat masala                                       ½ tsp

Black salt                                           to taste

Mash  boiled patoes and mix with little salt and chat masala.

For making pani take ice cold water in  a big bowl and mix green and sweet chutney to ice cold water according to ur taste and add salt, chatmasala and jeera powder according ur desired taste.

Take pure and make hole in the center,fill little mashed potato mix to it,

Add pani in to the hole and served fast one by one, or u can dip the puri in the pani and served one by one,

Enjoy the unique taste of pani puri………

CHATPATI CHATS..

Chats….mmmm u can call it "chatpati chats" its cahtpati bcoz its unique taste..sour,sweet and hot...I love chats..infact all the people in india die for chats...sometimes I feel i put on too much weight so no more chats,whenever I passby roadside panipuri ka thela….ooooo its so tempting I forget about my extra kilos, We find chat street in every city,"chowpati beach in bombay is the famous chat street. when i was in bangalore its really best place for foodies,i tried to taste all the special types of food that are famous from each and every corner of bangalroe ,but here  I don’t get to see pani pure ka thela so I decided to make chats week....

Basics of chats: some of the basic preperations of chats u can make and preserve it and use for a week.

1.PURI

Ingredients

semoline or Bombay rawa                    2 cups

Maida or all purpose flour                      2 tbsp

Salt                                                      to taste

Oil                                                        for deep frying

Method of preparation

Mix rava salt and maida and water to knead it to dough not too soft,

And let it stand for 2-3 hours covered  with moist cloth,

Make small balls and roll it to large chapatti not too thin,

Then cut puris with small katori of equal size.

Heat oil an deep fry the puris on medium flame

Spread it and let it cool and store in airtight container.

2.GREEN CHUTNEY

Ingredients

Coriander leaves                                1 cup

greenchilli                                           3-4

garlic pods                                          2

mint leaves                                        2 tbsp

cumin seeds                                       1 tsp

onion                                                 1 small

Salt                                                    to taste

Lemon juice                                       1 tbsp

Method of preparation

Grind all the ingredients with little water to get the medium consistency.

3. RED CHUTNEY

Ingredients

Red chiili                                            1 cup

garlic pods                                         2

cumin seeds                                      1 tsp

Salt                                                    to taste

Lemon juice                                       1 tbsp

Method of preparation

Soak chillis for 1 hour in warm water

Griend the chilli with all other ingredients with little water.

4. SWEET CHUTNEY

Ingredients

Tamrind pulp                                      1/2 cup

Dates                                                 4-5

Jaggery                                              3 tbsp

cumin powder                                    1 tsp

coriander powder                               ½ tsp

Salt                                                    to taste

Method of preparation

Soak tamrind and dates in water for 1 hour

Squeeze the tamrind get pulp.

Boil jaggery with dates and tamrind pulp for 10 minutes

Add cumin, coriander powder and salt to it and boil again for 5 minutes

Cool and keep it in refregirator.

5. MEETHA DAHI

Ingredients:

yogurt                                                1 cup

sugar                                                 to taste

Salt                                                    to taste

Method of preparation

Mix all the ingredients with little water according to ur desired consistency.

Other dry ingredients you need

1.   Jeera powder

2.   Chat masala

3.   Red chilli powder

I will get back with all the chats one by one..

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I went on vaccation for 45 days.so could not post any blog...
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