Bhel Puri

I guess its time for me to post some recipes!! This is one of my favorite snacks and took some time to learn this recipe. If you are a creative person you can add stuffs which you like from the pantry, still it would be a perfect snack. Every time I make this recipe I keep adding different ingredients to it and the process never ends. You can add boiled potato, cooked chana (garbanzo beans), roasted peanuts, cucumber, chopped tomato, raw mango, spring onions, carrots, sprouts, any cooked beans like black eye bean, kidney beans, lima beans blah blah and the list goes on and on. So just be creative and add what you like :) Here goes the recipe!!!!

For the bhel

• 2 cups of puffed rice
• ½ cup sev
• ½ cup of papadi’s broken
• 1 onion finely chopped
• 1 tomato, chopped
• 1/2 cup boiled chopped potatoes
• 1/4 cup boiled chana
• 2 tbsp coriander leaves, chopped
• salt to taste

Green Chutney

• 2 cups coriander leaves
• 1/2 cup mint leaves
• 5-6 green chilies
• 1 tbs lime juice
• Salt to taste

Grind the above items to a fine paste by adding required water

Tamarind Chutney

• 3/4 cup tamarind water (lemon size tamarind soaked in water)
• 1/2 cup dates deseeded
• 3/4 cup jaggery (brown sugar )
• 1/2 tsp cumin powder
• 1/4 tsp salt

In a pan add the tamarind water, seedless dates, jaggery, cumin powder, and salt. Bring them to boil and cook for 8- 10 minutes until the mixture reduce to a thick liquid. Turn off the heat and allow the mixture to cool, and grind to a smooth paste.

Method

Mix puffed rice, sev, and broken papadi in a large bowl. Add onions, tomato, cooked chana, boiled potato, add required green and tamarind chutney. Mix well and garnish with sev and cilantro leaves. Serve immediately :)

Notes

• You can store these chutneys in a container and keep refrigerated.

• Add ingredients of your choice to the bhel puri.

• Bombay Bhel puri mix is available in the stores, just buy that and add chutneys and ingredients of your choice.