Sev puri recipe With step by step photos and video. Sev puri is a spicy, sweet, tangy chaat snack from Mumbai and one of my favorite chaat recipe. In fact, coming to think of it, all the chaat recipes are my all time favorites 🙂
Sev puri is spicy, sweet and tangy to taste with so many different textures and tastes mingling in your mouth. It is easy to assemble Sev puri. just that some of the ingredients need to be prepped up before you start assembling them.
Ingredients you will need to make sev puri are
- Pooris or papdis – these are crisp flat fried discs made from whole wheat flour. They can be made at home or brought from stores.
- Green chutney – spicy chutney made from fresh coriander leaves or both coriander and mint leaves
- Sweet chutney – made from tamarind, dates and jaggery.
- Red chutney – spicy hot chutney made from dry red chilies and garlic
- Sev – crisp fried gram flour vermicelli. Can be again made at home or bought from outside.
- Veggies – chopped boiled potatoes, chopped onions and tomatoes.
Its best to make the chutneys one day before and refrigerate them. As I mentioned above, the papdis and sev can be store brought.
We wanted to have some chaat at home. so I had made both Papdi chaat and Sev puri on the same day. In Mumbai this snack is known as Sev puriand in Delhi it is called as papdi chaat. they are similar but not the same.
In sev puri, curd (yogurt) is not added, unless one wants it. In papdi chaat along with curd, boiled white chickpeas and sometimes urad dal pakoris (fritters) are added. Sev, onion and tomatoes are also not added to the papdi chaat. The rest of the ingredients are same.
As soon as sev puris are assembled, they have to be served immediately or else the pooris turn soggy. Here I have just shared the assembling part in the step by step pics. For the chutney recipes, please read the links mentioned above. Or you can read their recipes in the recipe card below.
Sev puri recipe video
How to make sev puri
1. First keep all the stuff that you need in your workplace before you begin to assemble the sev puri.
2. arrange the puris or papdis on a plate.
3. Top it up with chopped boiled potatoes.
4. Then add chopped onions.
5. Top with some tomatoes. sprinkle some chaat masala on it, if you want at this stage.
6. Top it up with the green chutney as much as you want.
7. Then top with some red chili chutney. Using this chutney is optional and you can substitute it with red chili powder. Though not the same taste with red chili powder. But something is better than nothing.
8. top it up with the sweet chutney as much as you want. The amount of chutneys to be added depends upon a person’s taste. So if someone likes a sweet taste, add more of the sweet tamarind chutney.
9. Sprinkle a few drops of lemon juice.
10. Sprinkle 2 to 3 pinches of chaat masala and black salt (rock salt).
11. Sprinkle sev evenly all over on the sev puri.
12. Lastly garnish with chopped coriander leaves.
Serve sev puri immediately. prepare this way and serve them straight away. And don’t be surprised if your family, friends or guests ask for a second and third helping.
