Simple Recipes for Puchkas or Panipuri at your Home

One of the best street foods in the Jaigoan footpath next to stall momo is Puchkas or Panipuri. The Bhutanese Panipuri lovers might be as eager as Jaigoan residents for the Bhutan Gate to open which was shut since the pandemic hit the country in March, 2020. The sour soup and spicy hot potatoes mashed pulp leaves every lovers mouth wet despite its kitchen hygiene on the open street.

I was always skeptical over the hygiene factor of this particular street food when I saw first time in Jaigoan street. However, it became one of my favorite snack on my way back from college to dormitory Hall 7. I used to wait in a long queue for my turn to get a piece on the paper plate. The last dry piece or Sukha used to be special after the last piece of one plate serve. 



These days one can find the Puchkas in almost all small restaurants of Phuntsholing Town and capital town Thimphu. But the original factory made taste still exist in Jaigoan footpath in the hands of those stall owners. You can find almost an equivalent quality and hygienic Panipuri in capital town just next to Pelwang Photo Studio at ground floor.
https://www.facebook.com/BHUTANFOOD/posts/jangsemmondaycheck-out-pucka-corner-on-the-top-floor-of-pelwang-photo-studio-bui/632708491452636/. They use gloves and clean containers like that in Sheetal Residency Family Restaurant in Jaigoan 
https://www.facebook.com/Sheetalresidencyjaigaon/. The per plate price is Nu.50 and they serve you other items like Chaat and coffee too. 

Nevertheless, the food processing industries even if it's a small cup of tea keeps its brand image with the process hygiene and food safety. The process hygiene gets revealed unless one is involved in the process. So if you are a health conscious person, why can't you try yourself at home. Try to be your own chef and taste your own fingers.

Try out the these simple recipe at home which I tried.

1. Get the ready made ingredients of Puchkas from shop.


 
You will find the following spices in the packet!



2. Fry the potatoes chips that will pop-up into small puchka balls.


The Puchkas balls sometimes becomes big for small mouth.

3. Boil 4 to 5 pieces of potatoes.


4. Smash the potatoes into pulp.


5. Cut onions and tomatoes into small pieces and add green chilli or dry chilli.



6. Fry this onion, tomatoes and chilli for the taste or one can use the raw depending upon the choice of taste.


7. Mix the potatoes pulp and the fried paste.


8. Cut open the main soup powder and mix in the water properly.



9. Serve it on your plate and enjoy your Puchkas on your home table.



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