Puchka / Pani Poori /Pani Puri

Pani Puri or Puchka is all time favorite street food in Kolkata so also Mumbai , Delhi and other places

Lets see how this can be made at home

Ingredients
Part 1 - Pani

• Mint - 1 cup
• Coriander leaves - 1 cup
• Thin tamarind extract - 1 cup (soak gooseberry sized tamarind in 1 cup water and extract it)
• Jaggery - 1 big piece
• Ginger - 1 small piece
• Green Chilly - 1 or 2 nos
• Lemon - 1

Part 2 - Spices / Masala Powders

• Chaat Masala
• Coriander Powder
• Kashmiri Chilly Powder
• Cumin Powder
• Black Salt
• Normal Salt

Take these powders in required quantity.There is no such hard and fast rule

Part 3 - Stuffing

• Potato - 8 nos
• Black Channa - 1 handful

Part 4 - Main Ingredient

• Small Pooris - 30 nos 
• Boondhi - as required

I used the ready made ones

Method
Step 1 - Pani Preparation

• Take mint, coriander, jaggery, ginger, green chilly in a mixer jar
• Pour 1/2 cup of water and grind it smoothly
• Filter the ground mixture.Do not discard the residue
• Pour tamarind extract, 2 cups of water
• Add the masala powders and salt
• Squeeze lemon.
• Put boondhis on top of the pani

Now the pani is ready

Step 2 - Stuffing

• Soak black channa overnight and pressure cook for 5 whistles
• Also pressure cook potatoes.Peel them
• Mash the boiled potatoes and channa
• Now add the residue that was filtered in the above step
• Also put the masala powders and salt as required
• Mix them well

Step 3 - Assembling

• Break / make small hole on top of the poori
• Put the potato stuffing inside
• Dip inside the pani and gulp it