How to Use puri in a Sentence

puri

noun
  • This will make up the bulk of the filling for your puri shells.
    — Arsh Raziuddin, Bon Appétit, 11 Feb. 2022
  • Dassana's Veg Recipes will tell you how to make your own pani puri.
    — Emily Matchar, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Sep. 2020
  • Every puri that entered the pan changed the system.
    — Sanjay Srivastava, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
  • With pani puri, each person is in total control of the flavor.
    — Arsh Raziuddin, Bon Appétit, 11 Feb. 2022
  • Or a floppy specimen stuffed with split peas, also known as dhal puri.
    — Priya Krishna, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2023
  • Like chapati, puri is made from a simple durum wheat flour dough.
    — Saveur Editors, Saveur, 25 Mar. 2020
  • Shotis puri is a traditional Georgian bread baked on the inner walls of a clay oven.
    — Aj Willingham, CNN, 8 July 2021
  • The two would sit in the kitchen making rotis and pani puri en masse to make sure everyone filtering in and out had their fill.
    — NBC News, 4 Aug. 2021
  • What's more dangerous—the salad at a five-star hotel or a plate of bhel puri from a Mumbai street-food stall?
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 June 2017
  • The bhel puri served with raw mango, tamarind, and British yogurt is a smooth, sweet complement to my go-to dish, the butter-garlic crab.
    — Kar-Shing Tong, Bon Appetit, 24 Apr. 2017
  • Some creations, like Sardinian pasta with goat curry, blend cuisines, while others, like a pani puri, stick to tradition.
    — Elazar Sontag, Bon Appétit, 9 Sep. 2024
  • Its halal buffet offers enchanting delicacies like biryani, karahi gosht, haleem, palak paneer and a puri station.
    — Fredrick Ochami, Chron, 5 Nov. 2021
  • Pani puri is a quintessential street snack (though be assured Dosa Delight has plenty of proper seating).
    — Kaitlyn Rosati, New York Daily News, 12 Mar. 2025
  • He was rewarded with puri-aloo, a traditional Indian dish of potato curry, eaten with fried bread.
    — Alexander Saeedy, WSJ, 29 Jan. 2022
  • For a dramatic start, order the dahi batata puri, a chaat, popular all over India, that looks something like a cluster of cartoon dinosaur eggs.
    — Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 29 Nov. 2019
  • Fuchka typically contains mashed potato and bengal gram, while pani puri’s main ingredient is chickpeas.
    — NBC News, 17 Feb. 2020
  • Menu highlights included oysters with decorative flowers, lamb keema, and avocado bhel puri.
    — Zachary Schwartz, Vogue, 11 Feb. 2019
  • The meal featured savory and sweet mini dosas, Italian pastas with Indian chilis, pani puri filled with tequila or vodka shots, and traditional curries.
    — Zachary Schwartz, Vogue, 5 Nov. 2023
  • Starting with its famous pani puri, the menu’s 16 courses take guests to the four corners of India while celebrating the diversity of the country’s ingredients and cultural heritage.
    — Claudia De Brito, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Nov. 2023
  • In the past, Alley & Vine in Alameda has paired lilikoi wonderfully with raw marinated scallops, while Copra in San Francisco used the pulp remarkably well in its rasam puri.
    — Cesar Hernandez, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Sep. 2024

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