Durga Puja 2025: Prepare Kolkata-style Puchka At Home With This Recipe
Durga Puja in Kolkata is incomplete without puchka—the crisp puris, spicy potato mash, and tangy tamarind water that fuel pandal-hopping and capture the true flavour of the festival
- Time: 45 min
Source: Outlook Traveller Eats
Ingredients
- Atta puchka shells
- Boiled potatoes
- Soaked white peas or Bengal gram
- Tamarind pulp
- Mint leaves paste
- Rock salt
- Chopped green chillies
- Chilli powder
- Chopped coriander leaves
- Gondhoraj lime
- Regular lime
- Whole coriander seeds
- Whole cumin seeds
- Whole black peppercorns
- Dry red chillies
- Bay leaves