MASALA PURI

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This is King among the North Indian chats like pani puri, dahi puri, tikki puri and corn tikki.                                                       

Ingredients    :

Dry peas                                                    2 cups

Potato                                                        2

Onion                                                        4

Tomato                                                      2

Tamarind                                                   1 lime size

Jaggery                                                      1 lime size

Groundnut oil                                             1 tablespoon

Red chilly powder                                       ½ table spoon

Garam masala powder                                ½ table spoon

Pudina                                                       some leaves

Green chilly                                               2

Coriander leaves                                        finely chopped

Curry leaves                                             10-15 leaves

Jeera                                                        1 teaspoon

Black pepper                                             1 tea spoon

Om pudi                                                   1 packet

Ready made poories of masala puri

Salt to taste.

Preparation :

• Finely chop onion, tomato and coriander leaves.
• In a cooker cook overnight soaked peas and pototo in a separate containers and set aside.
• In a mixie make a fine paste of masala with pudina, green chillies, jeera, black pepper and salt.
• Prepare tamarind pulp and heat it to a boil along with jaggery, red chilli powder and salt to prepare meetha.
• In a kadai, heat oil and fry onion to a golden brown. 
• Add finely chopped tomatoes and fry. 
• Then put the masala paste, add some water and cook. 
• To this add one liter water.
• While boiling put the red chilly powder and garam masala powder, salt. 
• Add some curry leaves and coriander leaves. 
• Smash the cooked potatoes to a fine paste and mix.
• Add water if needed in such a way that the finally it should turn out to a proper gravy consistency of masala puri.
• In a plate break 6-8 puris, on that pour masala, add a dash of meetha, finely chopped onions, tomatoes(if you like) ,finely chopped coriander leaves, om pudi and serve.