Pani puri is also known as golgappa or puchka is a popular Indian street food. It's a perfectly balanced snack with sweet, salty and tangy tastes as well as different textures comes from crispy puri, mashed potatoes, legumes and other ingredients. Let's see how to make this snack with homemade puri, sweet chutney, spicy pani from scratch. Check out the ingredients and click on it to get the individual recipes.
Best for get togethers, parties or as festival snacks, you can make this any time of the year.
Pani puri is one of the first chaat items I tasted in my life along pav bhaji in Salem cafe when I was a kid. That moment when you taste chaat and instantly fall in love with it. Just wow!
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Me and my mom tried very much to recreate the same at home. With no internet to search for the recipe and no cook book to guide, only our imagination, we tried our best and could make something almost similar but delicious attempt it was.
I want to confess you all, though I have been at Chennai for an year and visit every year, I have never tasted pani puri there. Not from any chaat houses, road side shops, nothing. Sigh!
Here in Singapore, I have tried pani puri twice, once from Kailash parbat, but sadly I didn't like it. I have tried making too it was thousand times better than what I had in restaurants. But involves a lot of planning and some work.
Tried my hands with ready made pack too, but it was the most terrible ones. Never took time to try clicking and posting here when ever I made.
This time I made just to make post. Coz its high time for me to post here though my readers keep requesting and searching google specifically in my site.
After posting puri recipe yesterday, the response was overwhelming in the social media, I hope many of you now would be waiting for the chaat recipes with it.
Here we go, India's most loved by girl snack/ chaat the one and only Pani puri. It has a lot of variants in different parts of India, so here is my take, a delicious one, that's a promise!
Pani puri puri recipe
Puri for chaats
Sweet chutney recipe
Sweet chutney
Stepwise photos
1. Grind the clean mint, coriander leaves, chilli, ginger with little water smoothly.
2. Extract tamarind juice by soaking it in hot water for 15 minutes. In a mixing bowl, place the rest of the ingredients, add the extracted tamarind juice. The total water added should be 3 cups. Adjust salt as needed.
3. Mix well and filter if needed. Keep refrigerated until use. Add few boondi just before serving.
Assembling
1. Keep all the ingredients gathered for making pani puri. Break the puri on top (thin side) by poking it with your finger. Add potato, chana to it.
2. Add chopped onion and coriander leaves if desired followed by sweet chutney. Fill it with the prepared pani and serve/ pop in you mouth.
You can arrange the puris in a plate ready just before serving with the fillings ready. Give the pani separately so that the people who eat just dip and fill the pani in the puri.
Pop in mouth or spoon the pani in the puris then and there and eat it, as per their preference. Give them a small bowl like the below ones.
My notes
- I have given cooking time 20 mins for potato and channa, considering all the other ingredients needed ready.
- For cooking chana, you need to soak overnight. Next day, drain water use fresh water and required salt, pressure cook for 5 whistles in medium flame.
- Black salt gives the perfect flavor needed for the pani, so do not skip it, if not make sure to add chaat masala, which had a lots of it.
- Add salt carefully as we are adding both kala namak and chaat masala previously.
- The stuffing can be of your choice. Several items that can be stuffed in the puri are - boiled white chana, boiled green peas, boiled green gram (moong) sprouts, boiled mixed sprouts etc. green peas best if forgotten to soak or sprout legumes.
- Mint is more and coriander is less in the recipe.
FAQ
Yes, you can prepare puri as per the recipe (Linked in ingredients) and store ahead.
Main ingredients are mint, coriander, tamarind and jaggery along with other spices.
Recipe card
Pani Puri | Pani Puri Recipe
Ingredients
For pani
- ¼ cup Mint leaves tightly packed
- ¼ cup Coriander leaves loosely packed
- 1 Green chilli
- ½ Inch Ginger piece
- 2 tablespoon Tamarind tightly packed (or) 1 tablespoon Lemon juice
- 1 tablespoon Jaggery
- ½ teaspoon Roasted cumin seeds powder Bhuna jeera
- ½ teaspoon Coriander seeds powder
- ½ teaspoon Black pepper powder
- 1 teaspoon Kala namak/ black salt
- 1 teaspoon Chaat masala Optional
- 3 cups Cold water
- Salt
To serve
- 30 Puri
- 1 Boiled potato chopped into cubes
- ½ cup Cooked Chana
- Sweet chutney as needed
- Boondi as needed
- 1 Onion optional
- Chopped coriander leaves Optional - As needed for serving
Instructions
- Grind the clean mint, coriander leaves, chilli, ginger with little water smoothly.¼ cup Mint leaves, ¼ cup Coriander leaves, 1 Green chilli , ½ Inch Ginger piece
- Extract tamarind juice by soaking it in hot water for 15 minutes.2 tbsp Tamarind
- In a mixing bowl, place the rest of the ingredients, add the extracted tamarind juice.1 tbsp Jaggery, ½ tsp Roasted cumin seeds powder, ½ tsp Coriander seeds powder, ½ tsp Black pepper powder , 1 tsp Kala namak/ black salt , 1 tsp Chaat masala
- The total water added should be 3 cups.3 cups Cold water
- Adjust salt as needed. Mix well and filter if needed.Salt
- Keep refrigerated until use.
- Add few boondi just before serving.Boondi
- Keep all the ingredients gathered for making pani puri.
- Break the puri on top (thin side) by poking it with your finger.30 Puri
- Add potato, chana to it.1 Boiled potato , ½ cup Cooked Chana
- Add chopped onion and coriander leaves if desired followed by sweet chutney. Fill it with the prepared pani and serve/ pop in you mouth.Sweet chutney , 1 Onion, Chopped coriander leaves
Notes
- Add salt carefully as we are adding both kala namak and chaat masala previously.
- The stuffing can be of your choice. Several items that can be stuffed in the puri are - boiled white chana, boiled green peas, boiled green gram (moong) sprouts, boiled mixed sprouts etc. green peas best if forgotten to soak or sprout legumes.
- The puri will be strong one side and thin one side, keep the strong side bottom and poke over the thin side so that the puri could hold the stuffing and pani for eating.
- If adding lemon juice, just squeeze the lemon and add 3 cups water in step 2.
- Make sure the lemon a large one with lots of juice, if not, use more as needed. If tanginess is not balance, then the green raw smell of the mint and coriander will be overpowering.
- Instead of boondi, you can add sev too.
AparnaRajeshkumar says
last snap 🙂 i liked it me the pani puri lover tried many shops but home mades are best
ramya murali says
wow!!!! Drooling!!!! Waiting for long time...... thanks a ton..
Ramya Venkateswaran says
love the homemade one:)mouthwatering one
Ria Castelino says
Looks delicious. Its a must try recipe now
sandhya sekar says
hi raks..........
wts tat tightly packed &loosely packed means??
Raks anand says
In the cup, if you press the leaves with your hands and make it full cup its tightly packed, without pressing, its loosely packed.
jeyashri suresh says
Super tempting pani puris.
ranjani vathsan says
Wowwwwww......
shivashankari14 says
atlast thanks for updating us pani poori recepie.. thanks fr this yummy pani poori recepie..
monica says
How did u get sweet chutney...is it in recipe index?
vidhya das says
In sowcarpet,potato will be mashed wid salt,chilli powder and onions...but here potatoes are cubed!...will try in dis manner soon,...!...superb presentation yar.!its tempting
Durga Karthik. says
I too have tasted outside but detested to do at home bcoz of the experience.Should try yours.
Raks anand says
Click the sweet chutney in ingredients, I have linked it to the recipe, it will take you to the recipe 🙂
Swarna says
Yummy ! Gonna try for sure !
vidya m says
Such a lovely presentation . Here in Hyderabad , sometimes the sweet chutney is also diluted and made like paani and the pooris are served with both the minty and sweet paani..
sandhya sekar says
hi raks..........
thank u soooo much............
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basicamit says
I tried this for my family... Everyone just loved it..
Thanks Raks...
Wildflower says
You are right, Raks! I always check your site if I am trying anything new just to see if you have any tips...as your recipe always works! I am a bit sad you did not add the date-tamarind chutney recipe also. I have tried to do that in the past for other chat recipes..and the color was totally off from what we get in store. Maybe because of the light colored dates I used? So I came to see that in your blog and you did not have it! Please make the date/sweet chutney too so we can do a reference 🙂
Shama Nagarajan says
delicious.......tempting
sreeservices says
hi,
it's a nice recipe and as usual good pics:)
Jayanthy Kumaran says
nice cliks with easy recipe...thanks for sharing Raks..
Anonymous says
This is truly delicious!! Thank you for the wonderful pictures and wonderful recipe!! Will surely try both the puri and the pani puri...My kids will love me for this!
Kurinji says
mouthwatering recipe and clicks....
Vama Dattani says
The last click is just perfect. Drooling
Raks anand says
I already posted. click over the ingredient list it will take u to sweet chutney recipe
Raks anand says
I already posted. click over the ingredient list it will take u to sweet chutney recipe
Raks anand says
I already posted. click over the ingredient list it will take u to sweet chutney recipe
safiya farook says
I want pani puri's puri
safiya farook says
I want recipe of pani puri's puri
ranjana padwal says
Can u plz tell me the sweet chutny recipe
Raks anand says
Click on the term in the ingredient list, it is linked to the recipe
Unknown says
Tried it yesterday, & it came out well ... Thanks raks!!!
Sharmila says
Thanks for the recipe . My teen can't wait to try it out !
Rachna says
Mam,
Hello, I wanted to know if we can substitute Gur if I don’t have any.
Also can I add sweet chutney to water for sweeter version?
Raks Anand says
You can use sugar too. Yes sure you can use sweet chutney with water for meetha paani. I would suggest you to use this chutney added to water, just adjust the sugar more. https://rakskitchen.net/sweet-chutney-for-chaat-without-dates/