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Pani Puri Recipe-How to make Pani Poori-Golgappas-Chaat Recipes

July 10, 2013 by PadhuSankar 27 Comments

Pani pooris are known as “Golgappas” in North India and “poochkas” in West Bengal. It is a very popular street food or chaat item in India. This snack is loved by both youngsters and adults.The crisp puris are stuffed with potatoes, moong sprouts/chickpeas and then filled with spicy chilled masala water and served. Making pani puri at home is hygienic and economical. Today we will learn a very easy method to make pani poori at home following our simple recipe. 
Pani Poori
Would you like some pani poori?

How to make pani poori at home

Ingredients needed for the pani

Ice cold water – 3 cups
Green chutney – 3 tbsp
Sweet chutney (dates tamarind chutney) – 2 tbsp
Chilli powder – 1 tsp
Chaat masala powder- 1 1/2 tsp
Roasted Cumin/jeera powder -1 tsp (dry roast cumins seeds and powder it)
Boondi – fistful

(Click the link for green chutney and sweet chutney recipes)

Method for preparing Pani 

Take ice cold water in a bowl and mix all the ingredients mentioned above from green chutney to jeera powder. There are no hard and fast rules regarding the measurement. You can taste the pani and add more or less of chutney or spice powder according to your personal preferences. Chill for an hour for the flavors to get blended well with the pani. Add a fistful of boondi to the pani.

So now our pani/spiced water for pani poori is ready.

Pooris – 15 pooris – These pooris are easily available in supermarkets, so you do not have to strain yourself making these pooris. After all, we are not going to have pani puri everyday. You can get it ready made. I got it ready made from Nilgiris. Anyway I will post the poori recipe later.

Ingredients needed for the filling

Potatoes – 3-4 medium sized ones
Green chilli – 1 finely chopped
Red Chilli powder – 1 tsp
Cumin/jeera powder -1 tsp
Chaat masala – a pinch
Salt

Green gram dal /whole moong dal – 3/4 cup

Sev
Onion – 1 finely chopped
Coriander leaves – as needed (finely chopped)

Preparation

Pressure cook potatoes, peel the skin and mash it well. Add finely chopped green chillies, red chilli powder, cumin powder, chaat masala, salt needed and mix well. Keep it aside.

Soak green gram dal/ moong dal overnight and sprout it. Learn how to sprout moong dal. Steam the moong sprouts with salt needed and a pinch of turmeric powder. Instead of moong dal, you can use cooked chick peas also. 

how to make pani puri

Assembling and how to serve

If you have everything ready, making pani poori is a breeze.

Take a poori, make a hole in the center big enough to fill the stuffing.(see picture below – just tap the thin side of the puri with your index finger)

Now fill the poori with a little potato mix.

Top it with moong sprouts or cooked chickpeas.

Add finely chopped onions, sprinkle just a pinch of chilli powder, chaat masala and roasted jeera powder.

Garnish with finely chopped coriander leaves and sev.

Immerse it in chilled pani and eat the whole poori with the stuffing and pani right away.

Enjoy homemade pani puri!!

Golgappas

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Comments

  1. Manjula Bharath

    July 10, 2013 at 3:08 pm

    lovely presentation and delicious looking golgappas 🙂

    Reply
  2. Gayathri Ramanan

    July 10, 2013 at 3:12 pm

    Looks yummy, lovely presentation..love the first click..so tempting..

    Reply
  3. Veena Theagarajan

    July 10, 2013 at 3:25 pm

    Chat! I can hv anytime esp. Pani Puri .. Nicely done

    Reply
  4. AparnaRajeshkumar

    July 10, 2013 at 3:47 pm

    lovely padhu 🙂 u r breaking my diet plan !

    Reply
  5. divya

    July 10, 2013 at 4:17 pm

    Looks delish..nice pic

    Reply
  6. Corporate to Kitchen

    July 10, 2013 at 4:19 pm

    Yummy looking golgappa's You pictures are so crisp & clear. my mouth is watering

    Reply
  7. Gajus kitchen

    July 10, 2013 at 5:24 pm

    Looks tempting and yummy..beautiful clicks

    Reply
  8. DivyaGCP

    July 10, 2013 at 8:44 pm

    Love Pani puri.. You have made it perfectly at home..

    Reply
  9. Chitz

    July 10, 2013 at 9:34 pm

    Golgappas are my favs !! Lovely post dear 🙂

    Reply
  10. Divya Shivaraman

    July 11, 2013 at 12:23 am

    love that first click padhu…they are so perfectly done…this is my most fav chat…during my pregnancy i had them every weekend(doc advised not to have everyday)…am that crazy for this

    Reply
  11. Anonymous

    July 11, 2013 at 1:02 am

    perfectly made crisp puris, making us drool 🙂

    Reply
  12. Neelam

    July 11, 2013 at 3:54 am

    Wow. awesome.

    Reply
  13. Gouri Guha

    July 11, 2013 at 9:30 am

    The pani puris are inviting. Love the filling and also the paani.
    Looks perfect.

    Reply
  14. Priya Suresh

    July 11, 2013 at 10:38 am

    Omg, i want some rite now, cant stop drooling myself here..Very tempting post.

    Reply
  15. thelady8home

    July 11, 2013 at 4:02 pm

    This pani puri looks sensational!!! Yummmm!!!!!!

    Reply
  16. Akhila Ramganesh

    July 12, 2013 at 5:10 pm

    Aah .. I wish I wre yur sister, daughter or atleast your neighbour to enjoy all your delicacies !

    Reply
  17. Anonymous

    July 15, 2013 at 11:31 am

    Oh God padhu this pic makes me want to take one gol gappa and put all the stuff and dunk it n to the paani. Lovely pics.

    Shobha

    Reply
  18. Navyashree

    October 18, 2013 at 4:51 pm

    Hi padhu, ur blogs been really helpful for me. The paani puri s really tempting. …:-) thank u for all the efforts……
    cheers,
    Navyashree

    Reply
  19. Saravana Kumar

    February 2, 2014 at 11:56 am

    Not everybody seem to use Dates for sweet chutney… your recipe is indeed authentic.

    Reply
  20. iloveooty

    August 16, 2014 at 6:12 pm

    Its simply outstanding recipe.I will try to take notes and prepare this item and going to stun my family members as a pani puri wala. Thanks to my guru Padhu.

    Reply
  21. Poornima Loganathan

    September 23, 2016 at 9:26 pm

    Hi your recipes are simply superb, I tried this Pani Puri, wow it's great my hubby and kids loved it. I am your recipe follower.

    Reply
  22. shri hari

    September 9, 2018 at 7:51 am

    I do not see the link for green and sweet chutney, could you let me know the links?

    Reply
    • Padhu Sankar

      September 10, 2018 at 6:45 am

      Under "ingredients needed for pani puri", click the green chutney, it will take you to the green chutney recipe page.In the same way, click the sweet chuntney under "ingredients needed for pani puri",it will take you to the sweet chutney recipe page.

      Reply
  23. sridevi shyamaprasad

    April 17, 2019 at 2:40 pm

    Awesome. I made this. Came out very well

    Reply
  24. Vidya Nayak Shenoy

    April 2, 2021 at 2:43 am

    Perfect Golgappas.. Thank u so much for the recipe.
    I have tried almost all your chaat recipes..n it was a super hit with my family n I got all the appreciation..

    Reply
  25. Pooja Warudkar

    November 14, 2021 at 9:24 pm

    Such beautiful presentation – where did you buy that glass matka from?

    Reply
    • PadhuSankar

      November 17, 2021 at 8:48 am

      That was given free with sunrise coffee I think so.

      Reply

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