Name: Bhel Puri
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 2 min
Total time: 17 min
Yield: Serves 4–6
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: salt; 3 tbsp roasted peanuts; juice of ½ lemon; 75 g/3 oz finely diced red onion; 250 g/9 oz puffed rice; 2 tsp chat masala; 1 large Maris Piper potato, peeled, boiled and chopped into 1cm/½ inch cubes; 2 tbsp Mowgli Chutney; ½ small bunch of fresh coriander/cilantro, finely chopped; 1 green chilli, deseeded and finely sliced; ½ tsp chilli powder; 1 tsp ground cumin; 3 tbsp Coriander and Mint Chutney; 3 tbsp Tamarind Chutney; 100 g/3½ oz Sev Noodles

Preparation info

Serves
4–6

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
20 min

Appears in

Mowgli Street Food

By Nisha Katona

Published 2018

About

This tossed and tangy rice and nut rubble is sold outside every station, school and office in India. It is peddled in newspaper cones, often dry, with a little package of black salt to season. I struggled so much with trying to find an easy name for this on the menu. I’m still not content with names on the Mowgli menu that mean nothing to my English-speaking clients. I will get there. So far I have ‘Tangy Rice Rubble’ or, as someone once suggested, ‘Spicy Cocoa Pops’? ... Nah.