Gol gappa (also known as pani puri) is a popular bite-sized chaat consisting of a hollow, deep-fried puffed ball that is filled with potato, chickpea, onion, spices and flavored water, usually tamarind or mint, and placed in one’s mouth whole. This is mainly a street side food in Pakistan & India.
Puri for Pani Puri or Puchka Puri is a fried puffed crispy puri that forms the base of Pani Puri. They are filled with a spicy potato and black chickpea filling and topped with spicy flavored water and then popped into the mouth in one go.
Ingrediants for Gol Gappa
- Flour (Chaki ka aata) 1 cup
- Salt ¼ teaspoon
- Water for kneading
How to Make Gol Gappay
- Mix salt in flour and knead it with water.
- Put the dough in a bowl and cover with a damp cloth for 2 hours.
- Shape the dough into small balls and roll them on a work surface dusted with flour. Roll out very thin, even if the surface is visible under the rolled dough.
- Cut out with a cookie cutter in the desired size. Cover it again with a wet cloth.
- Heat the oil in a wok. Keep the flame medium high.
- When the oil is heated, add one puri to it and press it down with a frying spoon. It puffs up when you press, turn on one side, fry for a few minutes on the other side and remove from the oil.
- In the same way, make all gol gappay.
Sweet chutney
Ingredients
- Tamarind (imli) pulp 1 cup
- Jeggery/brown sugar ½ cup
- Red chili powder 1 tsp
- Crushed roasted cumin ½ tsp
- Salt to taste
Instruction
Add tamarind pulp, jaggery/brown sugar, red chilli powder, cumin and salt to the pan. Cover and cook until thickened.
Red chutney
Ingredients
- Water 1 cup
- Sugar ¼ cup
- Dates 50 g (remove seeds)
- Red chili powder 1 tsp
- Crushed roasted cumin ½ tsp
- Salt to taste
- Red food coloring 1 pinch
Instruction
- Cook all the red chutney ingredients until slightly thickened.
- Allow to cool and rub into a smooth paste.
Sour water (Khata Pani)
Ingredients
- Cold water 1 liter
- Thick tamarind pulp 1 cup
- Roasted cumin powder ½ tsp
- Black salt (kala namak) ½ tsp
- Red chili powder ½ tsp
- Black pepper powder ½ tsp
- Dry ginger powder ¼ tsp
- Chaat masala 1 tsp
- Salt to taste
Instruction
Mix all ingredients in water. Add ice if needed.
How to Eat Pani Puri
Make hole in Gol Gappa from one side and insert all given ingrediants in the rounded gol gappa. Now fill this gol gapps with sour water and eat at once.
