Bhelpuri

Ingredients:

• 1 puffed rice (1 carton rice krispies)
• 1 pkg bhel mix or sev
• 2 cup mashed boiled potatoes, mashed crudely
• 1/2 cup chopped fresh coriander
• 1 leaves
• 3 tablespoon freshly roasted and ground cumin
• to taste green chillies
• freshly ground black pepper
• to taste tamarind
• to taste jaggery (or brown sugar)
• 1 cup chopped onions.

Method:

1. First boil the potatoes. Mash them and salt them, add pepper to taste. Add some coriander leaves too.
2. Roast the cumin and grind it.
3. Dissolve about 4 tbsp of Tamarind concentrate in 1 cup of hot water, and let it simmer to thicken gradually. Dissolve the jaggery (or sugar) till the sauce becomes tart and slightly sweet.
4. The sauce should be of a consistency slightly thinner than maple syrup.
5. Pour into a serving container (like a creamer). Mix the puffed rice and sev/bhel mix in a large bowl.
6. On your plate, serve yourself the rice-bhel mixture, add the potatoes, then the onions, chillies, dust the cumin powder over it.
7. Then pour the sauce. Top with the coriander garnish.
8. Add salt/pepper to taste.