Bhel Puri Recipe: How To Prepare It At Home

Methods:

• Boil 1 large potato. You can also take two medium-sized potatoes.

Making Red Chutney

• Peel 14-16 medium-large sized garlic cloves.
• Rinse them and add in a grinder jar.
• Now add kashmiri red chili powder along with salt.
• Next add 2-3 tablespoons water or as required.
• Grind until you get a smooth consistency.
• Take out the red chutney in a bowl.

Making Green Chutney

• Rinse and roughly chop ½ cup fresh coriander leaves (or ¼ cup mint leaves + ¼ cup coriander leaves).
• Add the coriander leaves in a small grinder jar. Also add chopped ginger, green chillies, chaat masala, salt and lemon juice.
• Add 2 to 3 tablespoons water or as required and grind to a smooth chutney. Avoid making green chutney thin. Remove green chutney in a bowl and keep aside.

Making Sweet-Sour Chutney

• To make sweet-sour chutney, take some jaggery.
• Add amchur powder, roasted cumin powder, kashmiri red chilli powder, dry ginger powder and black salt or regular salt.
• Add 3 tablespoons of water. Mix everything well.
• Heat this pan on low-medium flame.
• Heat the mixture until the jaggery melts down and the solution starts to thicken.
• Once the solution thickens, turn off the flame.
• Sweet-sour chutney
• Peel and chop the boiled potatoes.
• Chop 1 medium size tomato and onions.
• Chop 1-2 green chilies along with some coriander leaves.

Making Bhel Puri

• Now mix red, green and sweet-sour chutney in a large mixing bowl. Add the chopped veggies along with the chopped boiled potatoes.
• Add murmura as well in the mixing bowl.
• In case you wish you can store some amount of the chutneys in your fridge for later usage.
• If you wish you can add 2-3 tablespoons of moong sprouts.
• Sprinkle ½-1 teaspoon of chaat masala and ½ teaspoon of roasted cumin powder.
• Now add black salt as per your taste. Instead of black salt, you can also add pink salt.
• Add ½-1 teaspoon lemon juice. Mix everything well.
• Now add 2 tablespoons of roasted peanuts or masala chana.
• Next you can also add some papdi.
• Add ½ cup of sev.
• Swirl everything with the help of a spoon. You need to be quick in mixing everything well
• Serve bhel puri topped with some coriander leaves, onions and chilies.

Tips To Keep In Mind

• You can adjust the spicy taste in the chutneys.
• You can also add radish in the Bhel Puri.
• In case, you don't have onions, you can still prepare the Bhel puri.
• Make sure the murmura (puffed rice) is crisp and frsh. It shouldn't be soggy at all.
• Once you have assembled everything, mix well. This way the bhel puri won't turn moist.
• You can carrots, cucumber, sliced cabbage and beet root as well into the bhel puri.
• In case, you have coriander, raw mango or mint chutney, then you can add them as well in the Bhel Puri.