Bhel puri is a delightful street food from India which is popular everywhere. While the general recipe remains the same, it is highly versatile and can be modified as per your taste and liking. Bhel puri recipe is all about balance. It is sour, salty, slightly sweet and spicy. And it is this melee of flavours that gets your tastebuds in a tizzy. It is a perfect anytime snack as it is very healthy. It is also very flavourful. I make it as an evening snack along with chai often.
Here is my bhel puri recipe, a popular Indian chaat:
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Mumbai style bhel puri | Bhel Puri Recipe
Ingredients
Dry ingredients
- 2 cups puffed rice
- ½ cup mixture or namkeen
Vegetables
- ½ onion chopped fine
- ½ tomato chopped fine chopped fine
- ½ potato chopped fine
- ¼ raw mango chopped fine
- 1 tbsp. coriander finely chopped
- 1 green chilli finely chopped
- ½ tsp. lemon juice
Chutneys
- Green chutney
- Tamarind sweet chutney
Spices
- ½ tsp. Chat masala
- salt to taste
Garnishes
- 2 tbsp. Thin sev
- 4 papdi
Instructions
- Mix together Puffed rice and namkeen and keep aside.
- Take in a bowl and add the chutneys as per taste. Add all the veggies, spices and lemon juice and mix quickly.
- Serve immediately garnished with thin or nylon sev and papdi. Your bhel puri is ready to serve.
Video
Notes
- I don’t like sweet chutney so I use only the spicy green chutney in my bhel puri.
- You can also use grated carrot if you like but I like this combination of veggies.
- Make sure you serve immediately or your puffed rice will get soggy. You can’t make bhel puri and store it. You have to make it and serve instantly.
- Adjust spice according to taste.
Nutrition
This is a quick and easy recipe and healthy too. You can have it guiltfree any time as snack.
Step-by-step Pictures
Assemble all ingredients to make bhel puri
In a mixing bowl add together puffed rice, mixture, chopped veggies, chutneys, spices and mix together. Top with fine sev and papdi along with lemon juice and serve instantly.
How to Make Dry Bhel Puri
There is also a dry bhel puri that is often made and eaten. The only difference is that all the above ingredients are used in the dry bhel except wet chutneys. The flavour comes from lime juice and spice mixes. You can add more chopped green chillies or red chilli powder if you want it hotter. This one does not get soggy easily and it is easier to make it quickly. Some people add things like boiled chickpeas to this.
In case you want to make your own bhel mix try this video
Hope you liked these bhel puri recipes and will make it in a hygienic way at home.
Enjoy this popular streetside snack at home.
Do try out these other chaats: pani puri, dahi vada.
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Obsessivemom says
I have to only organise the papadi and the sev and I shall be able to make it. We all LOVE bhel. That’s one of the few things the husband enjoys making but he has some other recipe that uses mustard oil and of course he splatters the kitchen with the Murmura! That’s a devil to clean up.
Rachna says
Get it from your kirana store. It is very easily available. You can use normal sev if you can't find nylon sev. What your husband makes must be a version of jhal muri, the Bengali way. We love that as well. ?
Soumya says
I love home made chaats and this one seems so easy! It looks so delicious as well.
Rachna says
Super easy and a favourite snack at my place in the evenings. You just need to have the ingredients in place. Many times we don't have sev or paapri and we just leave it out.
Shilpa Gupte says
Yaar, tera blog visit karke na badi bhookh lag jaati hai!! And, then I get desperate to eat whatever you have written about ... 😛
Pinned the post! It is my fav!
Rachna says
Thanks Shilpa! Sachchi bhel puri dekhkar mooh mein paani toh aayega hee 🙂
Sonia Chatterjee says
I love Bhel Puri. Infact it is one of the rare things that I love making for myself and the kid. This is definitely going to be my snacks today evening.
Kaddu says
Bhel puri is anytime food. I simply love it! We usually don’t have imli chutney or hari chutney at home. So we add mustard oil instead. It’s pungent flavour and sharp aroma lends a different kind of twist. Do try it sometime if you haven’t.
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Shalini says
My husband loves Bhel Puri. I will definitely make this the next time I run out of snacks ?
Shilpa Garg says
I love bhelpuri and make it pretty often at home. This is my go-to snack when there’s paucity of time and the in-between meals hunger pangs are strong!!
Rachna says
Absolutely Shilpa!
Mayuri Nidigallu says
Nothing like home made food! This Bhel looks so delicious! Mum makes it at home from scratch too, in a similiar way.
rupam { xhobdo } says
Looks yummy 🙂
Rachna says
Thanks so much
Neha Sharma says
It took me back to my hostel days when my roommate used to prepare bhe puril at night during exam days for us. Thanks for the recipe.
Rachna says
You're welcome, Neha ? Thanks for dropping by.
Ramesh Patel says
Bhel puri is surely one of the tastiest snack items of India. It can be seen in any street of Mumbai and Gujarat. Using such simple ingredients, the snack is prepared to taste amazing. I like your style of presentation with nutrition facts as well as step by step images. It instantly appeals to the reader.
Poonam Mishra says
Please send me the recipe of bhel
Rachna says
Hi Poonam, You can save the URL.