Calcutta Style Puchka (Pani Puri/Gol Guppa)
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Loading ...Calcutta is very famous for its street food culture. It’s a place one will fall in love with in terms of shopping and street food to keep you going through all that shopping! Puchka’s as they are called in Calcutta are the best street food you can have in India on a hot summer day, a rainy day, a gloomy day, basically a day you want your mood to be high lightened. A spicy tangy thirst quenching street food, there is so much one can talk about this famous dish which is popular all over the world.
Before you try these pucka’s at home, if you are a novice to this dish, then its better you try them on the streets or a restaurant to understand how this dish has to be savored.
Makes: 20 puri’s
Cooking time: 30 minutes for the potatoes and kala channa
Preparation Time: 15 minutes
Ingredients
- 20 store bought puris’s
- ½ cup chopped onions
- 1 recipe of Date and Tamarind Chutney
Ingredients for the Pani
- 5 cups water
- 1 cup finely chopped mint
- 1 cup finely chopped coriander
- 1 tablespoon chopped green chilli
- ½ teaspoon of chilli powder
- 2 tablespoons tamarind pulp
- 1 tablespoon black salt
- 1 tablespoon roasted and powdered cumin
- 1 tablespoon chaat masala powder
- Salt to taste
Ingredients for the filling
- ½ cup boiled black chick peas/kala channa
- 1 cup boiled and mashed potatoes
- 1 teaspoon chilli powder
- 1 teaspoon black salt
- 1 teaspoon moodi masala (optional – but a must for the Calcutta style, the recipe of which is a trade secret to the street vendors)
- Salt to taste
Method for Pani
Blend all the ingredients and strain; discard the residue. Refrigerate before serving or just add ice.
Method for Filling
Mix all the ingredients and set aside.
Serving the Puchka’s/Pani Puri’s
Tap the Puri at the center lightly to make a half inch hole in it.
Add about 1 teaspoon of the filling into the puri.
Now add 1 tablespoon of the Date and Tamarind Chutney. This is optional for people who do not like the sweet taste along with the sour taste. Some like the pani to be chilli hot, some like it sweet and hot, some like it just sweet. So alter it to your taste and have fun.
Dip the filled puri into the chilled pani water, garnish with chopped onions and serve immediately.
Alternative serving suggestions for the filling
You can make the filling healthier by adding boiled green moong and spice it according to your taste.
Or just boiled spiced potatoes. So basically, the filling is a lentil/ potato mixture. Experiment the filling with your imagination with a spiced mixture.
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You are on a roll girl!
Before I even got around to commenting on the Doodhi sabzi, there’s another post! Pani Puri’s have to be on everyone’s favorite list - so much fun!
Well, my brother made me put another one before i could let that doodhi sit for a little while. he is such an ardent fan of cooking and eating and faithfully trying my recipes and giving critiques, that he did not want the doodhi sabzi
oh god archana, reading this early in the morning is doing funny things to my tastebuds:) pani-puri is so universal I didn’t know there was a Calcutta style!!:)
the platter looks awesome!
Delicious.. I love pani puris and your post brought back memories of devouring these during our trip to Calcutta!
Yes, mansi, every one who goes to calcutta, will rave about their street food culture. I even know of some mumbaiites who rave about calcutta food.
Laavanya - i am sure, we are crazy about calcutta too. More so because my in laws are there.
OMG, I was just now at a post with papdi chaat and now pani puris, I’m gonna have a heart break with nothing to eat at the end of all this reading!! Looks awesome and I your version of pani puri, down south we have it much simpler
ooh! pani puri
looks soooo good, am ready to eat
Wow.. pani puri.. mouth watering name.. !!
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feeling like having it now !! nice recipe.. !! here i struggle to eat them.. !! back in India it was fun an lots of memories..
Thanks for sharing Archana
I love pani puri. it used to be one of my fav Mumbai street foods.:-)
It’s been so long since I had one of these!
oh wow! Pani puri!!! one of my favorite chats….wish i could come over & gobble a few!!
i love puchkaas..as others have said..it has been way too long since i have had them
I am a complete novice to this - looks like I’m missing out on a great treat here!
Thanks for visiting my blog too - you have a great blog here and I’ll be sure to keep on visiting
Rosie x
Yumm!!!! these look really good!!!
wowwww pani puri, its been long I had pani puri ,u made me to crave for pani puri now
Hi Archana, This is my first time to your blog, liked it a lot, you have a great collection of recipes here!
Pani Puri has always been my fav, Thanks for sharing the recipe.
I wish i could find a recipe for preparing those perfect puri’s too..
Have added you to my blogroll
Thanks all of you TBC, Meera, Rajitha, Rosie, Ramya ans sagari.
Mona, i have tried making the puris, they came out more like puffed crackers… that just melted in the mouth. I have not got the right recipe which makes great ones like the ones on the street
Dont know about Kol panipuris, but I love the one’s in Delhi!! So very yummmmm
Live oani puri, puchka - whats in a name. love them love them.
Thanks for dropping by.
You have quite a nice blog here. I remember my cousin talking about the puchkas in Calcutta. Of course, she lives in Chennai now.
please tell me the recipe for moodi masala..
thanks
Rituparno - Moodi masala is something which is a trade secret to the street vendors of kolkatta, but I will post the recipe of the one which I have. I have tried it, but it does not turn our quiet the same.