Bhel Puri is a popular street food that is relished by many. Pori also known as puffed rice is one of the main ingredients in making bhel puri. Learn to make Bhel Puri at home with step by step pictures.
I am really not a big fan of bhel puri but love it just for the crunch of sev and pori. I like bhel puri served with egg scramble that is popular here in Coimbatore. Bhel puri is basically a mix of many ingredients.
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About Bhel Puri
Bhel Puri is a tasty snack made using puffed rice, papdi or puri, chat chutneys, spice powders, raw onion, tomato, sev and coriander leaves. The ingredients list, sounds and looks long but it is easy to prepare at home.
Once the ingredients are ready, bhel puri is very easy to put together. This is perfect to serve for parties and get together. Bhel Puri is one among the popular street food chats in Mumbai. Nowadays it has gained popularity in South India too.
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Bhel Puri Ingredients
- Pori – Pori also known as puffed rice is one of the main ingredients for bhel puri.
- Papdi – Readymade papdi is available in stores, you can buy them or make papdis at home. You can replace it with puri too.
- Vegetables – Boiled potato, grated carrots are used.
- Sev – Add bhujiya / sev for garnishing for crunch.
- Onion – Adding raw onion as garnish gives a nice taste.
- Coriander leaves – Add chopped coriander leaves for garnish
- Chat Chutneys – Green chutney and sweet chutney is added.
- Spice powders – Red chili powder, chat masala powders are added.
- Lemon juice – Lemon juice adds a tangy taste.
How to make Bhel Puri Step by Step
1.Take a wide bowl for easy mixing. Make all the ingredients ready.First take green chutney, dates chutney, red chilli powder, chat masala powder and lemon juice. Then add chopped onion and tomato. Then add carrot and mashed boiled potatoes. Add puffed rice.
2.Give a quick mix then add papdi, sev and finally garnish with coriander leaves and mix well. Serve immediately.
If you like you can add more sev and puffed rice as garnish before serving and enjoy your homemade bhel puri.
Enjoy Bhel Puri anytime at home!
Expert Tips
- Once the ingredients are mixed serve immediately else puffed rice will become soft. But it tastes good that way too, it just our preference of eating whether crisp or soggy.
- You can also add chopped raw mango for the extra tanginess.
- The ingredients measures are just for reference, you can + or – according to taste and liking.
Serving and Storage
You can make the papdi or puri, chutneys, sev ready. On the day of serving cook potato, chop onion, tomato, coriander leaves get ready with spice powders and finally assemble the chat and serve immediately.
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Bhel Puri Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 and 1/2 cups puffed rice / pori
- 1/2 cup sev
- 8 papdi roughly broken
- 1/4 cup carrot grated
- 1 small sized potato boiled & mashed
- 1 onion finely chopped
- 1 tablespoon green chutney
- 1 tablespoon sweet chutney
- 1 tablespoon coriander leaves finely chopped
- 1/2 teaspoon lemon juice
- 1/2 teaspoon chili powder
- 1/2 teaspoon chat masala powder
Instructions
- Take a wide bowl for easy mixing. Make all the ingredients ready.First take green chutney, dates chutney, red chilli powder, chat masala powder and lemon juice. Then add chopped onion and tomato. Then add carrot and mashed boiled potatoes. Add puffed rice.
- Give a quick mix then add papdi, sev and finally garnish with coriander leaves and mix well. Serve immediately.
- If you like you can add more sev and puffed rice as garnish before serving and enjoy your homemade bhel puri.
Notes
- Once the ingredients are mixed serve immediately else puffed rice will become soft. But it tastes good that way too, it just our preference of eating whether crisp or soggy.
- You can also add chopped raw mango for the extra tanginess.
- The ingredients measures are just for reference, you can + or – according to taste and liking.
Kavitha Bhargav
Wow… delicious
Ramya Bala
aah..pasikuthu….love all the chaat….indha dhonnai kooda thookitu vandhen inga from kannan dept 😉
Suchi
The pics are great…am drooling over them…an old favourite…:-)
Varshini Sudharsan
wow lovely presentation…also hav to metion the efforts u have taken in naming ingredients in the photo…gr8 clicks…thanks for this lovely recipe 🙂
Kanan
so mouthwatering. Is it suppose to be boiled potato instead of raw potato in ingredients picture?
Sharmilee! :)
@Kanan : Yes it is boiled potato, its a type..now changed it. Thanks for letting me know!
Ambika
Wonderful photos Sharmi!! I LOVE bhel, this looks amazing!
Achu's Amma's Kitchen
very yummy tempting colorfull ….
Jyoti
Beautiful presentation.. I love chats and tomatoes in chats is a must for me..
Suja Manoj
Pics are great..tempting and colorful..
maha
chat looks so crispy n yummy…bookmarked….
Srimathi
You don't like Bhel? I love it any time. Good Post.
Hema
Awesome, and lovely clicks..
Shobha
Yummy bhel puri… awy from your country, you miss all these chatpata snacks.
Swathi Iyer
Delicious bhel poori I had it once in Ajantha ellora.
An Open Book
love bhel puri..looks super duper yum..im thoroughly wishing i had some right now
Teena Mary
You are putting great effort in showing the ingredients & procedures!! Loved the simple recipe!! Looks great. This is pne of my favourite chaat 🙂
Tina
Delicious…
Soundarya V
Lovely presentation..
Kanchan
I love bhel puri, never added carrot to it, but this looks delicious too.
Divya Kudua
Bhelpuri is one of my favorite in chaats.love the pics,makes me want to reach out and grab the bowl:)
Rekha shoban
all time favourite!!!looks colourful!
Prathibha
Though bhel puri is not my first choice like the sookha bhel..I love 2 eat it occasionally as its easy,filling n tasty
Sangeetha Nambi
Perfect ! My all time Favy.
Vimitha Anand
Amma's favorite chaat variety. Planning to make it when she comes here
RAKS KITCHEN
Feel like grabbing from screen! Wonderful chaat and lovely clicks 🙂
notyet100
Ummm I am drooling looking at this l:)
Rashida shaikh
Your presentation is making it more appealing.
uma shankar
well explained!too tempting!
Farah
omg! so tempting!…looks lovely!…did u make ur date chutney?
Sharmilee! :)
For bhel, I used ready made dates chutney but you can make it at home too.Check the ingredients list for the chat chutneys recipes.
Gayathri Anand
Very tempting …Loved ur presentation a lot. ..
Rachana
I am simply drooling over this delicious bhel puri!! Yum!!!!
Laavanya
I love this.. and the raw mango makes it every mmore tasty.
PriyaVaasu
i m craving for some bhelpuri now!!! wow, this is so so tempting!!!!
jeyashrisuresh
Very Tempting and yummy bhel puri, my daughter is always ask me try this at home. Have to try soon. nice clicks
Chitra
Its been years i made this. tempted by ur pics, will make it soon..
Pavithra Elangovan
Very tempting and Nice clicks 🙂
Valarmathi Sanjeev
love bhelpoori..one of my fav… pics makes me drool…yummy.
Vanamala Hebbar
wow superb..reminded me mumbai street bhel ..
Ramya Manja
wow drooling over the pics,what a splendid looking chat,love to munch it,my all time fav chat…
TheYummyMorsel
Wow! Another fav. of mine.
beena
it looks yummy! i m so tempted to make it soon…:) do vist my rcent post on pani poori… i enjoyed making it… i simply love ur detailed and well taken pics
Vidhya S
please post on how to make green chutney and sauce for bhel puri. It would be helpful.