Masala Puri | Bengaluru Style Street Food

Masala Puri is my favourite chaat in Bengaluru. The masala puri is available on road side stalls which is very tasty. Its most wanted chaat in Bengaluru mostly had at evening. I made up my mind to try and have at home. After continous tries I am very happy that it came out very well. Here goes the recipe.....

Ingredients
Patani(Dried Peas - Green or white) - 2 cups
Tomato - 3 nos
Onion - 2 nos
Carrot - 1/2 no
Garlic - 2 nos(optional)
Pudina (mint) - few
Coriander - 1 cup
All spices thats Pattai(Cinamon), Krambu(Black cardamom), Lavangam(Cloves) - 2nos
Cooking oil - 2 tspns
Salt to taste
Green chutney - 1 tspn(As per your taste) Refer notes
Sweet chutney - 1 tspns(As per your taste) Refer notes
Any mixture or Oma podi(Sev) - 1 cup
Puris - 12 nos (Readymade plain puri's)

Preparation Method
Soak Patani(Green or white peas) overnite and cook in pressure cooker for 3 whistles.
Grate carrot, chop 1 onion, 1 tomato and few coriander leaves. Keep all separately.

In a pan, add oil put all spices and fry add garlic, 1 onion, 2 tomatoes(Chopped into 4 pieces), Pudina(mint) leaves and stir fry till raw smell goes. Now grind this to a fine paste by putting coriander(cilantro) leaves. ( I didnot use garlic but they say its more tasty when added)

In a Kadai, put this mixture with the cooked peas and allow it to boil well.

Now in a plate take 6 puris and press it slightly add this gravy masala and top it with grated carrot, onion, tomatoes, a pinch of salt, chat masala, green chutney, sweet chutney and garnish with coriander or Oma podi(Sev) and Serve hot.

Notes -

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Green chutney
For Recipe Refer - Sweet chutney