This recipe uses ready-made ... hole in each puri and arrange on a serving plate. Add ½ tsp beansprouts and ½ tsp boondi. Pour the chilled pani paste into the puris and eat immediately.

The coin-operated pani puri machine has six nozzles, potato dispenser and gives out puris one at a time. It also makes ready-to-make pani flavour powders that can be used with mineral water.

I spent two amazing weeks exploring the states of Assam and Meghalaya in northeast India. There, I learned why so many of my viewers urged me to visit this part of the country. It’s so different from ...