Pani puri recipe

Updated on July 26, 2021 by Raks Anand 34 Comments

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Pani puri with homemade puri, sweet chutney, pani from scratch. Check out the ingredients and click on it to get the individual recipes.

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Pani puri is one of the first chaat items I tasted in my life along pav bhaji in Salem cafe when I was a kid. That moment when you taste chaat and instantly fall in love with it. Just wow!

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Puri recipe
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Me and my mom tried very much to recreate the same at home. With no internet to search for the recipe and no cook book to guide, only our imagination, we tried our best and could make something almost similar but delicious attempt it was.

I want to confess you all, though I have been at Chennai for an year and visit every year, I have never tasted pani puri there🙁. Not from any chaat houses, road side shops, nothing. Sigh🤐

Here in Singapore, I have tried pani puri twice, once from Kailash parbhat, but sadly I didn’t like it. I have tried making too it was thousand times better than what I had in restaurants. But involves a lot of planning and some work.

Tried my hands with ready made pack too, but it was the most terrible ones. Never took time to try clicking and posting here when ever I made.

This time I made just to make post. Coz its high time for me to post here though my readers keep requesting and searching google specifically in my site.

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After posting puri recipe yesterday, the response was overwhelming in the social media, I hope many of you now would be waiting for the chaat recipes with it.

Here we go, India’s most loved by girl snack/ chaat the one and only Pani puri 😉. It has a lot of variants in different parts of India, so here is my take, a delicious one, that's a promise!

Puri recipe

Puri for chaats

5 from 7 votes

Puri for pani puri, gol gappa puri or puchka is mini crispy snack made for using in Chaat dishes like pani puri, dahi puri.

15 minutes mins

Sweet chutney recipe

Sweet chutney

5 from 5 votes

Sweet chutney with tamarind and jaggery as main ingredients. This is a no dates version chutney for chaat recipes.

20 minutes mins

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5 from 9 votes

Pani puri recipe with stepwise pictures and pani recipe, with all the other ingredients linked in the list. Learn how to make this delicious, famous, Indian street food.

Course Snack

Cuisine Indian

Prep Time 30 minutes minutes

Cook Time 20 minutes minutes

Total Time 50 minutes minutes

Servings 4

Cup measurements

Ingredients

Click here for puri recipe

For pani

¼ cup Mint leaves tightly packed
¼ cup Coriander leaves loosely packed
1 Green chilli
½ Inch Ginger piece
2 tablespoon Tamarind tightly packed (or) 1 tablespoon Lemon juice
1 tablespoon Jaggery
½ teaspoon Roasted cumin seeds powder Bhuna jeera
½ teaspoon Coriander seeds powder
½ teaspoon Black pepper powder
1 teaspoon Kala namak/ black salt
1 teaspoon Chaat masala Optional
3 cups Cold water
Salt

To serve

30 Puri
1 Boiled potato chopped into cubes
½ cup Cooked Chana
Sweet chutney as needed
Boondi as needed
1 Onion optional
Chopped coriander leaves Optional – As needed for serving

Instructions

Grind the clean mint, coriander leaves, chilli, ginger with little water smoothly.
¼ cup Mint leaves, ¼ cup Coriander leaves, 1 Green chilli, ½ Inch Ginger piece
Extract tamarind juice by soaking it in hot water for 15 minutes.
2 tablespoon Tamarind
In a mixing bowl, place the rest of the ingredients, add the extracted tamarind juice.
1 tablespoon Jaggery, ½ teaspoon Roasted cumin seeds powder, ½ teaspoon Coriander seeds powder, ½ teaspoon Black pepper powder, 1 teaspoon Kala namak/ black salt, 1 teaspoon Chaat masala
The total water added should be 3 cups.
3 cups Cold water
Adjust salt as needed. Mix well and filter if needed.
Salt
Keep refrigerated until use.
Add few boondi just before serving.
Boondi
Keep all the ingredients gathered for making pani puri.
Break the puri on top (thin side) by poking it with your finger.
30 Puri
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Add potato, chana to it.
1 Boiled potato, ½ cup Cooked Chana
Add chopped onion and coriander leaves if desired followed by sweet chutney. Fill it with the prepared pani and serve/ pop in you mouth.
Sweet chutney, 1 Onion, Chopped coriander leaves

Notes

I have given cooking time 20 mins for potato and channa, considering all the other ingredients needed ready.
For cooking chana, u need to soak overnight.
Black salt gives the perfect flavor needed for the pani, so do not skip it, if not make sure to add chaat masala, which had a lots of it.
Add salt carefully as we are adding both kala namak and chaat masala previously.
The stuffing can be of your choice. Several items that can be stuffed in the puri are – boiled white chana, boiled green peas, boiled green gram (moong) sprouts, boiled mixed sprouts etc. green peas best if forgotten to soak or sprout legumes.
The puri will be strong one side and thin one side, keep the strong side bottom and poke over the thin side so that the puri could hold the stuffing and pani for eating.
Mint is more and coriander is less in the recipe.
If adding lemon juice, just squeeze the lemon and add 3 cups water in step 2.
Make sure its a large one with lots of juice, if not, use as needed. If tanginess is not balance, then the green raw smell of the mint and coriander will be overpowering.
Instead of boondi, you can add sev too.

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Stepwise photos

1. Grind the clean mint, coriander leaves, chilli, ginger with little water smoothly.

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2. Extract tamarind juice by soaking it in hot water for 15 minutes. In a mixing bowl, place the rest of the ingredients, add the extracted tamarind juice. The total water added should be 3 cups. Adjust salt as needed.

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3. Mix well and filter if needed. Keep refrigerated until use. Add few boondi just before serving.

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Assembling

1. Keep all the ingredients gathered for making pani puri. Break the puri on top (thin side) by poking it with your finger. Add potato, chana to it.

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2. Add chopped onion and coriander leaves if desired followed by sweet chutney. Fill it with the prepared pani and serve/ pop in you mouth.

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You can arrange the puris in a plate ready just before serving with the fillings ready. Give the pani separately so that the people who eat just dip and fill the pani in the puri.

Pop in mouth or spoon the pani in the puris then and there and eat it, as per their preference. Give them a small bowl like the below ones.

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Reader Interactions

Comments

AparnaRajeshkumar
February 17, 2015 at 9:52 am

last snap 🙂 i liked it me the pani puri lover tried many shops but home mades are best
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ramya murali
February 17, 2015 at 9:57 am

wow!!!! Drooling!!!! Waiting for long time...... thanks a ton..
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Ramya Venkateswaran
February 17, 2015 at 9:59 am

love the homemade one:)mouthwatering one
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Ria Castelino
February 17, 2015 at 10:15 am

Looks delicious. Its a must try recipe now
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sandhya sekar
February 17, 2015 at 10:30 am

hi raks..........
wts tat tightly packed &loosely packed means??
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Raks anand
February 17, 2015 at 10:37 am

In the cup, if you press the leaves with your hands and make it full cup its tightly packed, without pressing, its loosely packed.
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jeyashri suresh
February 17, 2015 at 10:59 am

Super tempting pani puris.
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ranjani vathsan
February 17, 2015 at 11:20 am

Wowwwwww......
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shivashankari14
February 17, 2015 at 11:32 am

atlast thanks for updating us pani poori recepie.. thanks fr this yummy pani poori recepie..
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monica
February 17, 2015 at 11:51 am

How did u get sweet chutney...is it in recipe index?
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vidhya das
February 17, 2015 at 1:42 pm

In sowcarpet,potato will be mashed wid salt,chilli powder and onions...but here potatoes are cubed!...will try in dis manner soon,...!...superb presentation yar.!its tempting
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Durga Karthik.
February 17, 2015 at 1:58 pm

I too have tasted outside but detested to do at home bcoz of the experience.Should try yours.
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Raks anand
February 18, 2015 at 1:19 am

Click the sweet chutney in ingredients, I have linked it to the recipe, it will take you to the recipe 🙂
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Swarna
February 18, 2015 at 8:51 am

Yummy ! Gonna try for sure !
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vidya m
February 18, 2015 at 9:12 am

Such a lovely presentation . Here in Hyderabad , sometimes the sweet chutney is also diluted and made like paani and the pooris are served with both the minty and sweet paani..
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sandhya sekar
February 18, 2015 at 10:02 am

hi raks..........
thank u soooo much............
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sandhya sekar
February 18, 2015 at 10:13 am

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basicamit
February 18, 2015 at 10:55 am

I tried this for my family... Everyone just loved it..
Thanks Raks...
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Wildflower
February 18, 2015 at 3:53 pm

You are right, Raks! I always check your site if I am trying anything new just to see if you have any tips...as your recipe always works! I am a bit sad you did not add the date-tamarind chutney recipe also. I have tried to do that in the past for other chat recipes..and the color was totally off from what we get in store. Maybe because of the light colored dates I used? So I came to see that in your blog and you did not have it! Please make the date/sweet chutney too so we can do a reference 🙂
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Shama Nagarajan
February 18, 2015 at 5:44 pm

delicious.......tempting
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sreeservices
February 19, 2015 at 3:28 am

hi,
it's a nice recipe and as usual good pics:)
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Jayanthy Kumaran
February 19, 2015 at 9:45 am

nice cliks with easy recipe...thanks for sharing Raks..
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Anonymous
February 20, 2015 at 12:29 pm

This is truly delicious!! Thank you for the wonderful pictures and wonderful recipe!! Will surely try both the puri and the pani puri...My kids will love me for this!
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Kurinji
February 23, 2015 at 9:43 am

mouthwatering recipe and clicks....
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Vama Dattani
February 23, 2015 at 3:01 pm

The last click is just perfect. Drooling
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Raks anand
March 03, 2015 at 4:30 am

I already posted. click over the ingredient list it will take u to sweet chutney recipe
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Raks anand
March 03, 2015 at 4:31 am

I already posted. click over the ingredient list it will take u to sweet chutney recipe
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Raks anand
March 03, 2015 at 4:31 am

I already posted. click over the ingredient list it will take u to sweet chutney recipe
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safiya farook
August 25, 2015 at 7:00 am

I want pani puri's puri
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safiya farook
August 25, 2015 at 7:00 am

I want recipe of pani puri's puri
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ranjana padwal
November 09, 2015 at 2:16 pm

Can u plz tell me the sweet chutny recipe
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Raks anand
November 09, 2015 at 2:21 pm

Click on the term in the ingredient list, it is linked to the recipe
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Unknown
June 05, 2016 at 1:08 am

Tried it yesterday, & it came out well ... Thanks raks!!!
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Sharmila
October 31, 2016 at 9:46 am

Thanks for the recipe . My teen can't wait to try it out !
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