How to make Papdi Chaat

A delicious snack for your mid-meal hunger pangs.

Ingredients

• 30 to 35 small flat puris (available at any farsan shop)
• 4 potatoes, boiled, peeled and diced
• 2 cups thick sweetened yogurt
• Juice of 2 lemons
• 3 tsp chaat masala powder
• 2 tsp roasted cumin powder
• 2 tsp red chilli powder
• Salt as per taste
• 1 onion, chopped
• 1 cup sev
• ½ cup fresh coriander, chopped
• 1 cup salted boondi (soaked in water for half an hour)
• ¼ cup tamarind chutney
• ¼ cup green chutney

How to make Tamarind Chutney

Ingredients

• 50 gm tamarind
• 200 gm jaggery
• 1 ½ cup hot water
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 tsp rock salt
• ½ tsp chilly powder
• 1 tsp cumin powder
• A pinch of fennel seeds

Method

• Soak the tamarind and jaggery in hot water for an hour.
• Grind and sieve it
• Add salt, rock salt, chilli powder and cumin powder and cook for 5 minutes.
• Add fennel seeds and turn off flame.
• When cool, put in airtight jar and store in refrigerator for future use.

How to make Green Chutney

Ingredients

• 1 cup fresh coriander leaves
• ½ cup mint leaves
• 8 green chillies
• 1 tbsp daliya (available in general stores)
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 tsp cumin seeds
• 1 tsp sugar
• 1 tbsp lemon juice
• ½ cup water

Method

Put all the ingredients in a mixie and grind it till it turns into a fine paste. Remove it and keep it in the fridge

Assembling Papdi Chaat

• Take a large mixing bowl.
• Arrange few puris nicely in the bowl, say around 10 puris
• Now add diced potatoes over the puris.
• Add the soaked boondis also over it (drain the boondis well before adding)
• Now add the yogurt on the top
• Add little tamarind chutney and green chutney on each puri
• Sprinkle little lime juice and add sev and chaat masala, red chilli powder, cumin powder on each puri. Add chopped onions also.
• Again repeat the same procedure and make one more layer of the above puris and ingredients on top.
• Papdi Chaat is ready to to be served.

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