(Bhel puri)

I got some bhel puri, a Mumbai snack that I will mourn for in Seattle. Puri is a cracker, and there is sev puri, bhel puri and pani puri. Pani puri is a little different from the other two, it is little fried puff balls that get filled with stuff and dipped in sauce and handed to you. Sev puri seems to have the same ingredients as bhel puri, but is served with a base of a row of crackers with stuff piled on top. Bhel puri is more just a pile of the ingredients that you eat with a cracker (like you would eat salsa with a chip). It seems to be made of some combination that includes any and all of: puffed rice, gram flour, peanuts, coriander leaves, green chili, dates, tamarind, sugar, jaggery, spices, mustard seeds, cumin seeds, curry leaves, asafoetida, turmeric powder, boiled potatoes, cracked puri, chopped red onion, tomatoes, cucumber. My bhel puri was good.

I watched the sunset for a while, then went off home. Happy Birthday, Gandhiji. Thanks for the day off.