Pani Puri

Ingredients:
Puri 50 puries (readymade packets)


Pani: (5 cups)

Tamarind water 40 gms
Mint leaves 2 cups
Coriander leaves ½ cup
Black salt
Cloves
Cardamom
Ginger ½ inch
Green chillies 4
Red chilli powder 2 tsp
Dalchini 2 med size piece
Ginger powder (optional)
Salt to taste
Cumin seeds 1tsp (roasted)


Stuffing:

Salted boondi 150 gms
Potatoes 2 medium sized
Red chilli powder 1/tsp
Salt to taste

Meethi (sweet) chutney:

Tamarind 50gms
Water 1& 1/4cup
Jaggery 100gms
Ginger powder(saunth) 1tsp
Cumin seed powder 1tsp
Garam masala powder ½ tsp
Red chilly powder ½ tsp
Salt ¾

Chuteny preparation:

Soak tamarind in ¾ cup of water for ½ an hour.
Blend it in a mixer and remove seeds from it. You can also use seedless tamarind.
Grate jaggery and soak it in half cup of water.
Now add all the ingredients together and heat it on a medium flame while stirring. So that all the ingredients get mixed properly.
Cook till the mixture is slightly thick.
When done remove and cool.


Preparations for stuffing:

Soak boondi in water for 10 minutes.
Squeeze out the water.
Boil peel and cut potatoes in to small pieces.
Mix boondi and potatoes pieces.
Add salt and red chili powder.
You can also use ragda(boiled white peas or boiled moog for stuffing.

Water ( Pani):
Soak tamarind in water for 3 hour.
Prepare paste of mint leaves, black salt, clove, Cardamom, ginger powder, red chilli powder, dalchini and cumin seeds in a mixer grinder.
Sieve the tamarind water.
Add this water to the paste, Mix it properly with the blender or churner.
Add salt.


To serve:
Make a small hole in the thinner side of the puri stuff the mixture of boondi and potatoes. Add meethi chutney and fill with cold pani and serve immediately.