Pani Puri with Chickpea Potato Filling
Pani puri is a delicious hollow and crispy semolina ball that is stuffed with a chickpea and potato filling and filled with spicy and sweet pani (spiced water) for a mouth-bursting street food snack.
Ingredients
- ¾ cup russet potatoes boiled, skin removed, and crushed into small pieces
- ¾ cup canned cooked chickpeas drained
- ¼ cup red onions finely diced
- 1 teaspoon chaat masala
- ¼ teaspoon Kashmiri chili powder plus more for sprinkling
- ½ teaspoon sea salt plus more to taste
- 24 store-bought or homemade puris
- 2 cups homemade sweet pani or spicy pani or pani made from store-bought masala
Instructions
Prep Ingredients
- Boil ¾ cup russet potatoes until fork tender. Peel the skin off the potatoes and discard. Crush potatoes into small pieces
- Drain ¾ cup canned cooked chickpeas.
- Dice ¼ cup red onions
Main Steps
- In a medium bowl add potatoes and drained chickpeas. Use a spoon to incorporate potatoes and chickpeas while lightly mashing the chickpeas.
- Add diced onions, 1 teaspoon chaat masala, ¼ teaspoon Kashmiri chili powder, and ½ teaspoon sea salt and mix until all the ingredients are distributed evenly. Taste filling for seasoning and add more salt to taste
- Lightly tap a small hole on the top of the puri with your index finger. Gently fill ~2-3 teaspoons of potato/chickpea filling in each puri. Either dunk puri in pani or use a squeeze bottle to fill puri with pani. Eat in one bite immediately.
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