Masala Puri | Bangalore style masalpuri | Chaat Recipes
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Recipe type: Snack
Cuisine: Indian
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Serves: 5 plates
 
Piping hot masala puri for cold winter or rainy days
Ingredients
For Ragada or Masala:
  • ¾ Cup green peas
  • ⅓ cup small (soaked for 12-15 hours chick peas/kabul chana
  • ½ cup tightly packed mint/pudina
  • ¼ cup tightly packed coriander
  • ½ Tsp freshly ground peppercorn/black pepper/kali mirch
  • 1-2 green chilli
  • 1" roughly chopped ginger
  • 3-4 cloves of roughly chopped garlic
  • Coarse sea salt/table salt to taste
  • ½ Tsp jeera
  • 1 Tsp garam masala
  • ½ Tbsp amchur powder/dry mango powder
  • 2 Tbsp lemon/lime juice
For Masala Puri Chaat:
  • Papdis as required (6-7 per plate)
  • 1-2 finely chopped onions
  • Red chilli powder to sprinkle
  • Chaat Masala to sprinkle
  • ¼ Cup or as required sweet chutney
  • Lemon/Lime wedges
  • Thin sev/Nylon sev as required to top on the plates
  • Chopped coriander to garnish
  • Yogurt/curd as required
Method
  1. In a pan/pot, add chick peas and peas
  2. Add water just to cover them. Boil them till tender
  3. For the masala, wash pudina and coriander leaves and take them in a mixer jar
  4. To this add chopped garlic, ginger, green chilli
  5. Add garam masala and amchur powder
  6. Sprinkle salt and black pepper powder
  7. Next add ¼ Cup boiled and cooled peas + chick peas. This will help thicken the masala and gives body to the ground masala
  8. Now add some jeera in
  9. Pour a little water and grind into a thick and fine paste
  10. Meanwhile, mash up some of the peas and chick peas in the pan. This will help in making the masala thick and even
  11. Pour in the masala paste. Pour in about ¾ Cup of water
  12. Squeeze in lemon/lime juice
  13. Start boiling the masala. Let it boil and as it thickens add some more water to adjust consistency. The ragada is now ready. Just keep it piping hot
  14. Get all the ingredients ready. Assemble chopped onions, coriander, papdis, lemon/lime wedges. Keep some sev, sweet chutney, chaat masala, red chilli powder in handy containers with some spoons stuck in them
  15. Now to assemble the masala puri, lightly crumble up some papdis (6-7 per plate)
  16. Spoon on a few drops of sweet chutney on the papdis
  17. ~Drumroll~, for the moment we all have waited for. Pour on some piping hot ragada/masala onto the papdis
  18. Sprinkle some chaat masala and red chilli powder
  19. Few more drops of sweet chutney to balance the flavours on the top
  20. Add some chopped onions on top
  21. For the fun part, top up with lots of sev till you can hardly see the masala
  22. Garnish with chopped coriander. Add a few drops of yogurt. Place a lemon/lime wedge on top or on the side
  23. Masala puri is now ready to be served. What are you waiting for? Serve these plates up and savour the hot spicy delicious masala puri! Enjoy!
Notes
Chick peas can also be substituted with white peas

Use frozen or fresh peas as available

Cook peas and chick peas in pressure cooker if you want till soft (5-6 whistles)

Adjust spiciness/sweetness as needed. Chilli powder can be completely skipped

Yogurt helps extinguish the heat of the masala. Yum!

Use store bought puri/papdi and sev if you want
Recipe by Food Of Interest at https://foodofinterest.com/masala-puri-chaat/