If you’ve ever had a sev puri on the street, you know it is not just typical street food. This snack’s spicy and tangy flavors are so addictive that they’re hard to resist. However, making sev puri takes work, especially if you want to do it right. In this blog post, we’ll talk about how you can make your ground masala so that your sev puri will be as fresh and delicious as possible!
Sev Puri Masala
Masala is a blend of Indian spices that have been used in the cuisine for centuries. It can include anything from cayenne and turmeric to ground chili peppers and mustard seeds. Masala’s colors, textures, and flavors are what give sev puri its unique taste.
Sev puri masala comes in two varieties: sweet and hot. Both are made with fresh ingredients like ginger paste, garlic paste, black salt, and masala spices. Still, their main difference comes from the addition of red chili powder or paprika to the mix. This gives them their distinctive taste profile—sweet vs. hot. You should consider when choosing which one to buy at your local Indian market or spice store!
Jaggery-Ginger Chutney
For a sweet and spicy chutney, you can use jaggery and ginger. Jaggery is unrefined sugar from the sap of sugarcane. It’s the solid form of the more commonly known brown sugar and is use in many Indian desserts like halwa or gulab jamun.
Ginger is also well known for its health benefits. It helps to soothe digestion, reduce inflammation, relieve nausea, and lower blood pressure. It is rich in antioxidants that are thought to slow down the aging process.
To make this chutney, mix 1 cup jaggery chopped into small pieces; 2 tablespoons grated fresh ginger; 1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper; 2 tablespoons water; 1 teaspoon salt until smooth consistency forms without any lumps.
Sev Puri Chaat Masala
1. Mix all the dry spices, including garam masala powder, fennel powder, red chili powder, coriander seeds powder, and black salt, together in a bowl.
2. Dry roast all these dry ingredients on a low flame for about 2 minutes until you get a nutty smell from the mixture.
3. Cool this mixture and grind it into a coarse powder using a coffee grinder, blender, or mixer grinder. If you want to make it fine, then store it in an airtight container for later use as sev puri masala seasoning.
Green Coriander Chutney
Green Coriander Chutney is one of the most popular chutneys use in Indian street food. It’s make with fresh green coriander, garlic, and other spices. The green coriander chutney is often served with sev puri or as a dip for a pav bhaji sandwich. You can also use this green coriander chutney as a spread on your sandwiches, burgers, or wraps!
How to Make Green Coriander Chutney?
To make Green Coriander Chutney at home, first wash and clean the coriander leaves properly by removing the dirt from it using your hands (do not use water). Chop the washed leaves finely using a knife or chopper into small pieces before adding them to a blender along with salt, red chili powder, and ginger-garlic paste/freshly crushed ginger-garlic ingredients such as lemon juice, etc., depending upon how strong you want your flavor profile to be in terms of sourness/spiciness, etc. Blend all these ingredients together until smooth paste forms, which then needs further stirring for about 5 minutes so that oil floats out at the surface & bubbles appear. This means now our chutney has reach its consistency level, where we should add more water & stir further again until desired consistency is achieve – thick but not too thick!
Garlic Chutney
Garlic Chutney is a spicy and tangy chutney that makes any dish taste better. It is popular with garlic, green chilies, ginger, and lemon juice. It goes well with the puri as well as sev puri.
Garlic chutney is just like tomato ketchup for Indians. This recipe has become popular in India due to its health benefits, as it helps in lowering cholesterol levels and also fights against cancer cells by increasing immunity. You can easily make this at home by following some simple steps mentioned below:
These masalas will ensure that your sev puri is the best on the street.
Well, as you know, sev puri is one of the most popular street foods in India. It has a unique taste, and it’s also very easy to make at home. But if you want your sev puri to stand out from all of the other sev puris sold on the streets, there are some things that you should do differently.
For example, the best way to make your sev puri different is by using fresh ingredients and spices in each batch of them.
All these ingredients need to be prepare well beforehand so that they can be use whenever needed without having any issues. It is like lack of freshness or poor quality etcetera. However, this takes a lot of time, and many people need to be willing/able to spend on preparing food!
We’ve put together a few different spice blends made especially for making delicious Sev Puris – add them into your mixture when making one yourself!
Conclusion
Sev Puri is a really easy dish to prepare, and it can be made using different types of spices. I have listed some of the best spices for you here so that you can try them out in your kitchen.
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