Bhel Puri
Ingredients
Boiled Potatoes - 2
Puffed Rice (Pori in Tamil) - 1 cup
Turmeric powder - a pinch
For Omapodi:
Besan flour - 1.5 cups
Rice flour - 1/2 cup
Salt, hing
Chilli powder - 1/2 tsp
Oil
For Sweet Chutney:
Tamarind - ping pong ball size (soaked in warm water)
Jaggery - 3 to 4 tsp
Dates (optional)- 2 (seeds removed after soaking in warm water)
For Green Chutney:
Coriander leaves - a small bunch
Mint leaves - half a bunch
Green Chillies - 1 or 2
Salt (very little)
For Red Chutney:
Tomato - 1 big cut to pieces
Onion - 1/2 cut to pieces
Saunf - 1/4 tsp
Salt (very little)
For Garnishing:
Slices of Onion, slices of Tomato, Coriander leaves chopped. Chat Masala powder - a pinch
Method:
- Prepare Omapodi by mixing all the above ingredients with little water into
a stiff dough and then by passing them into hot oil through a presser with
small holes. Remove and drain when fried.
- Grind sweet chutney with ingredients mentioned above by adding water.
- Grind green chutney with ingredients mentioned above by adding water.
- Grind red chutney with ingredients mentioned above by adding water.
- Now take a bowl add Pori, Smashed potatoes, Omapodi (broken to very small
pieces) turmeric powder and mix well. When well mixed, pour all chutneys one by one mixing very well.
- Finally garnish with above mentioned items.
- Transfer to serving plate and serve immediately else it will become soggy.