Street Food Series: Mosambi Pani Puri Recipe (Sweet Lime Pani Puri)

Be it summer or winter all of us in India love mosambi juice. Mosambi or musambi is harvested during autumn this lime is available in abundance between october till november. Mosambi is sweet lime variety exclusively used for juicing and specially offered to Goddess Durga during dussehra festival. 

Using this seasonal sweet lime I created a flavorful pani puri recipe. Mosambi juice has perfect balance of sweet and sour content, when spiked with chaat masala it enhances the taste.

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Ingredients:
2 Packs Ready to Use Pani Puri Shells
5 to 6 Ripe Mosambi
2 Medium Size Boiled Potato
1 Cucumber
2 Tomatoes
3 Medium Carrots
5 Sprigs Spring Onions
Fist Full Coriander Leaves
2 Large Onions
1 Tbsp Rasam Powder or Chilly Powder
1/2 Tsp Pepper Powder
3 Tbsp Chaat Masala or Pani Puri Masala
1/4 Cup Salted Roasted Peanuts
1 Cup Kara Sev
Salt as per taste.



Prep Up:
Peel, wash, deseed and finely chop the cucumber.
Cut mosambi into halves. Using a juicer extract mosambi juice.
Peel, wash and finely chop onions.
Wash, deseed and finely chop tomatoes.
Wash the greens well pat dry and finely chop the coriander and spring onions. 
Wash, Peel and Grate the carrots, reserve.

Prepare Mosambi Pani:
Add 1/2 tsp chaat masala and pinch of pepper powder to the mosambi juice stir well.

Taste the juice and add salt accordingly since the chaat masala already contains salt.

Add a tsp full of finely chopped coriander stir well allow all the flavors to infuse in the juice we can refrigerated until use.

Once the puri filling is ready we can serve the pani garnished with coriander and sprinkle a pinch of chaat masala and rasam powder on top.

Prepare the Puri Filling:
Before mixing the potato filling reserve a portion of grated carrots, finely chopped coriander and onions for garnishing.

In a mixing bowl combine finely chopped cucumber, tomato, onions, coriander, spring onions, grated carrots, boiled and crumbled  potato.

Add 1 tbsp chaat masala and 1 tbsp rasam powder or we can use chilly powder. combine all the ingredients check for salt and add if needed.

Create cavity in the puri, fill the puri with potato masala. Garnish with finely chopped onions, grated carrots and coriander. Just before serving fill with sev and peanuts, sprinkle rasam powder and chaat masala serve right away with mosambi pani...Enjoy 😊

 Fill the pani puri shells with mosambi pani and gobble up 👍