Again inspired by my brother Naresh Darji’s ( @NareshDarji ) dinner 2 nights ago, I had promise to join him in eating Pani Puri, which is one of India’s favorite street snacks. Pani Puri basically is a small deep fried cracker (mini puri), stuffed with varied types of vegetables and mix and then filled to the brim with flavored spiced water (pani basically means water in Hindi). So, I am no where near India at the moment, and there is no place to easily find Pani Puri in shops here where I am, so, I have got to make some. 
[Photo below] Enjoying the fruits of my labor, eating at least 20 delicious Pani Puris at home, stuffed with potatoes, onions, and potato chips. Home made. How was it? TLDR they were amazingly delicious.
[Photo below] I didn’t shop for specific ingredients, and all of these items were in my cupboard or fridge already. I wonder why I even have Panipuri masala in my fridge, which I had forgotten I have. So, basically for mini puris, we need some wheat semolina (rava) and some all purpose flour (maida). And for vegetables, I had 1 onion, 1 potato. For the spiced water, I just used the panipuri masala mix, or one can easily just mix the usual separate ground spices for it. Some yoghurt (optional). And some potato mix or aloo bhujia which one can easily find in most Indian grocery stores, which gives a good texture and crunch to panipuris.
[Picture below] Mix 1 cup of semolina with 2-3 tablespoon of maida all purpose wheat flour, add a pinch of salt and water and mix into a soft dough. Leave for 30 mins, and then roll and cut into small round discs.
[Picture below] Fry the mini puris in very hot oil, and keep pressing the puri under the oil to make it puff up. It’s ok if it doesn’t puff completely. Drain on kitchen towel.
[Picture below] Mix the panipuri masala mix with water, adjust salt for taste. The spiced water is always a little sour, usually flavored with mango powder or some other souring agent. Boil the potato until soft, cut into small pieces, add salt and some chilly powder. And then chop the onion. Pour out some aloo bhujia snack. Then get ready to assemble!
Note that panipuris are very flexible and one can put many different stuffing as you like. Today my stuffing is very limited because, I just looked for what was in the fridge and cupboard.
[Picture below] Make a small hole on one side of the mini puri, and make sure the other side is not cracked. Fill up with potato, onion and aloo bhujia, and then spoon in enough of spiced water to the brim. Put the entire thing in your mouth immediately.
How do they taste if one hasn’t taste it before? They are crispy, chewy, crunchy, tasty, juicy morsels of deliciousness.
If you long to try this, look for any Indian restaurant near you and inquire if they have it, not every Indian restaurant will serve this.
Special shout-out to Naresh for inspiring me to try this.
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I made this with whatever I could find in my cupboard and fridge, so if any ingredients were missing, it was because I didn’t shop for it. And it was also whatever vegetable I could find in my fridge.
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all photos are self-taken in my kitchen by myself.
you have made amazing Panipuri. It’s looking so delicious 
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. Pani Puri is famous in every streets of India. Thank you for sharing the beautiful pictures of it. You have shared the detailed recipe too, thank you
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Based on what you said, I could say that your fridge is almost full of any kind of ingredients, so that’s why you could make many creation to your kitchen.