DAHI PURI / POORI

When I think of dahi poori, I think of a dish perfect in its union flavors. Most of the chaat dishes are extremely spicy and yet sweet, extremely pungent and yet cooling. You will have a lot of fun eating these dishes!

 Dahi puri/ Poori is my daughters top most favourite among the chaat recipes! They also love pani poori, sev poori, bhalla chaat and bhel puri. After a round of spicy pani pooris, eating dahi poori is the perfect way to soothe your palate. “dahi pooris” are favourite with children as well as with adults who cannot handle the firey pani poori. What makes a dahi poori truly divine is obviously the humble curds which are made daily in every Indian household. The curds have to be fresh and chilled and most importantly of the right consistency i.e neither too thick nor too thin. Save the semi puffed or damaged pooris which cannot be used for serving pani poori to make dahi poori.   Hope you like this …

INGREDIENTS:

30-40 Puris /Pooris

1-2 Medium Sized Potatoes

½ Cup Boiled Kala Chana

1 Cup Meethi Chutney [Khajur-Imli Chutney]

½ Cup Green Mint Chutney

3 Cups Curd

Salt to taste

 For Garnish:

½ Cup Nylon Sev

2 teaspoon Chilli Powder

2 teaspoon Roasted Cumin Powder

2 teaspoon Chaat Masala

Chopped Coriander

1 Onion [optional]

1 Tomato [optional]

METHOD:

STEP 1 – Firstly prepare the chutneys and keep them aside. [I shared the recipes of chutneys in my blog in chutney section.] You can also make them a day before and refrigerate them.

STEP 2 – Soak the chana overnight and then boil them separately. Then peel off the potatoes and mash. Mix chana with mashed potatoes, add slat as per taste and mix well. Keep this aside.

STEP 3 – Chop onions, tomato and coriander leaves finely. 

STEP 4 – Whisk/ beat the curd till smooth and add salt to it and keep aside.

STEP 5 – In a plate, arrange the puris, put very little potato-chana mix on each of the puri.

STEP 6 – Now add the chopped onion, tomato on the top of the potatoes.

STEP 7 – At this stage, you could sprinkle some chaat masala, cumin powder, red chilli powder over it.[ This step is optional.]

STEP 8 – Top the pooris up with the green as well as meethi chutney. Top the chutneys as per your liking taste.

STEP 9 – Add curd over each poori. Now again sprinkle some chaat masala. Add sev, on the top in a way that each poori gets covered with sev.

STEP 10 – Garnish with finely chopped coriander leaves.

              Serve dahi sev batata poori as soon as you make it as the pooris become soggy if you serve even after a few minutes.

  

             NOTES: If the chutney and pooris are ready, then your snack time will be enjoyable. You can always make use of ready made items too.

               Use thick curd and beat it with a little salt and sugar for tasty dahi pooris.