Sev Batata puri is one of the famous and sought after street food items from Bombay alongside Bhelpuri, Paani Puri and Pavbhaji .
Sev (सेव) is deep fried string hoppers made using gram flour, Batata (बटाटा) in Marathi is potatoes and Puri or paapdi (पूरी / पापडी) are small deep fried discs made using All purpose flour / maida . .
Well,not only is this famous in Bombay,it is also famous all over the Northern India popularly know as Paapri Chaat or Paapdi Chaat . Though there is a slight difference in the chutneys used, the end result is always too good to be put in words . With each bite you can feel an explosion of flavors and various tastes in your mouth which needs to be experienced and enjoyed :-)
We can also make these discs using whole wheat flour . For this recipe today, I have used store bought puris which were made out of maida .
You can look up my video link below to prepare whole wheat puris at home . I generally prefer to use a slightly spicy version of the puris as it adds up to the taste of the chaat .
If we have all the ingredients ready ,it hardly takes 15 mins to put this snack together else you will need about 1- 2 hrs to prepare the potato filling , chutneys, chopping of onions , tomatoes ,corriander etc.
Assembling Time - 5 mins
Serves - 2
Complexity - Simple
Ingredients
2 medium sized potatoes boiled and mashed
1/2 cup onion finely chopped (skip for the No Onion No garlic version)
1/2 cup tomato finely chopped
- Arrange 7 papdis each on 2 set of plates.
- Season the boiled and mashed potatoes with some salt and red chilli powder and mix them well.
- Place about 1/2 tsp of potato filling on each puri.
- Place some onions and tomatoes over the potato filling.
- Top the puris with 1/2 tsp each of dates tamarind chutney and green chutney.
- Sprinkle some chat masala and garnish with a lot of sev and finely chopped corriander.
- Delicious sev Batata puri is ready to be served.
- Keep all the ingredients ready before you start assembling the sev puri .
- Serve it soon after assembling, else the puris will lose the crunch due to the chutney and the charm of biting into the crunch will be lost.
- You may also add some boiled whole moong beans or black channa (black chickpeas) to the potato mixture.
- You may add or reduce the amount of chutney you top up on the potato mixture depending on how spicy or mild you like the chaat to be .
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What an easy and amazing snack. Brought this to a party over the weekend and they were a huge hit!
ReplyDeleteYum what I will give to just grab the sev batata puri off the screen. Definitely much needed snack now that I cannot go to the carts to get my weekly street-food quota.
ReplyDeleteoh pls this is pure torture to see it virtually on the screen, ondheradu plate parcel maadi madam
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