Bhel Puri

My Son Kavin's favorite chat is Bhelpuri, he likes to eat it, in any time of the day. Sometimes he wants it for lunch as a whole meal.

                                                          Bhel Puri

Cuisine: North Indian
Preparation Time: 10 minutes

Ingredients: 
Finely chopped cucumber: 1 number 
Grated Carrot: 1 number
Boiled & Cubed Potato: 1 number
Finely chopped onions: 1/2 number
Finely chopped Tomato: 1 number
Lemon Juice: 1/2 tea spoon
Puffed rice: 1 cup
Pani puri or  Few crushed papdi's: 4 numbers
Green chutney: 1/2 tablespoon
Imili chutney: 1/2 tablespoon 
Dry garlic chutney: 1/2 tablespoon
Sev or Ompodi: 1 cup
Finely chopped coriander: 1/2 tea spoon
Chat masala: 1 & 1/2 tea spoon
Sugar: 1/2 tea spoon (Optional)

Method: 
1. Wash and peel cucumber and finely chop it. 
2. Grate the carrot and finely chop all other vegetables.
3. Take a wide bowl, add all the vegetables, puffed rice, lemon juice, crushed papdi's, all the chutneys and chat masala and mix it well.  

4. Plate it on a serving dish and lavishly sprinkle sev all over and garnish with coriander and serve. 

Note:
1. I have given a detailed procedure of all the three chutneys in my earlier vada pav post.
2. The puri's used for pani puri can also be used.

Papdi Recipe:

Ingredients:
Maida: 1 cup
Salt as needed
Ajwain or Omam: 1/4 tea spoon
Ghee: 2 tea spoons
Water as needed

Method:
1. Take maida in a bowl, add salt, ajwain and ghee.
2. Add water little by little and knead it into a soft dough. Keep aside it for 10 minutes.
3. Then a take a lemon sided ball out of the dough and role it into chapattis of even thickness.
4. Cut it into diamond shapes using knife or circles using a small tiffen box lid and fry it in hot oil over a medium flame. 
5. Drain oil and store in air tight container.
6. It stays well for 15 days.