Loved your writeup and pics. But I don’t think ur recipe for pani is authentic one. Key ingredient “mint” is missing. The street vendors in India add 2 types of pani in puri – “meetha pani” with imli,date and spices and teekha pani with mint,coriander and spices.

Shilpa: Vaishali, I really don’t know the definition of “authentic”. If you read the post, I have mentioned it is something that is followed at my home and not the version available at street vendors. In this version, we don’t add mint. There are many different recipes for most of the dishes in India, so what is authentic and what is not is debatable. If you are saying street vendor version is “authentic”, then you should know, you will find different versions at different vendors – In bangalore, we get a very thick very spicy and hot pani, in belgaum, we had pani which was on sweeter side, I have also tasted pani which is served cold and very watery.