Puri / Poori

Puri / Poori

Puri is an unleavened Indian bread, commonly consumed in India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan and other countries of South Asia.Puri is most commonly served at breakfast. It is also served at special or ceremonial functions as part of ceremonial rituals along with other vegetarian food offered in prayer as prasadam.

Ingredients :

• 1 cup whole wheat flour
• 1/2 cup water (lukewarm)
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon oil
• Oil to deep fry

Method :

Mix whole-wheat flour and salt . Add water as needed and  make tight dough.Dough for puri should be firm but smooth.Set the dough aside and cover with a damp cloth. Let the dough rest for 15 minutes or longer.
Then divide dough into small ball,roll it and deep fry in oil and serve hot

Paani Puri And Suka Puri

Paani Puri And Suka Puri

मराठीमध्ये वाचण्यासाठी इथे क्लिक करा

When I was staying in bangalore, there use to be a person near MK Ahemad On CMH Road who use to serve the delicious paani puri. I always dreamed of preaparing the paani puri the way he use to make. Last week when I gave it a shot, it indeed turned out the same taste :) He also use to give one suka chatpata puri after a round of paani puri. So here is the recipe. Try it out, i bet it will keep on appearing on your menu quite frequently.

Paani Puri


Ingredients
25 small Puris
3 Potatoes
2.5 spoon Chaat Masala
2.5 spoon Aamchur powder
1/2 spoon + a pinch of Jeera powder
1/2 spoon + a pinch of Corriander powder
A pinch of Asafoetida
1 cup Corriander leaves
2 spoon Pudina leaves
2 Green Chillies
1 Lemon
6 cup water
Salt to taste

Method

• Boil the potatoes
• Mean time grind corriander leaves, pudina leaves, green chillies, 2 spoon Chaat masala, 2 spoon Aamchur powder, 1/2 spoon jeera powder, 1/2 spoon corriander powder and asafoetida with water
• Strain this mixture through strainer
• Mix the lemon juice and salt with it
• Mash the boiled potatoes
• Mix remaining jeera powder, corriander powder, chaat masala and aamchur powder with it
• Add 3-4 crushed puris to this mixture
• Add around 4 spoon of the water prepared earlier to this and smash again
• Now add this mixture to the puri one by one, add the water prepared earlier to this and serve immediately

Notes
You can add little sweetened tamarind chutney (by adding little extra jaggery) if you want little sweeter taste.

Suka Puri


Ingredients
6 Puris
2 Potatoes
1/2 spoon red chilli powder
1/2 Lemon
A pinch of Jeera powder
A pinch of Corriander powder
A pinch of Aamchur powder
Salt to taste

Method

• Boil the potatoes
• Smash the boiled potatoes after removing their cover
• Mix red chilli powder, jeera powder, corriander powder, aamchur powder, salt to with it
• Add this mixture to the puris
• Add couple of drops of lemon juice on each puri and serve

Notes
You might want to add a pinch of chaat masala to the mixture if you plan to prepare only suka puri, but since suka puri is normally eaten after paani puri I avoid the chaat masala to have different taste than paani puri

SPDP - Shev Batata Dahi Puri

SPDP - Shev Batata Dahi Puri

मराठीमध्ये वाचण्यासाठी इथे क्लिक करा

Vaishali - A hotel on FC Road in Pune is very famous for this dish.. And ajoy being fequent visitor there i had additional pressure to make it as tastier as they make it.. And I was somewhat successful in it.. So here is the recipy.


Ingredients
7 Papadi style Puris
1 spoon Tamarind Chutney
3/4 spoon Green Spicy Chutney
1 medium sized Potato
1/2 cup Curd
4 spoon Shev
1/2 spoon Corriander leaves
1/2 spoon Corriander powder
1/2 spoon Cumin powder
1/2 spoon Chaat masala
2 spoon Sugar
Salt to taste

Method

• Cook potatoes in the cooker
• Mix curd with sugar and a pinch of salt and keep aside
• Remove the cover of the potato chop it into fine pieces
• Mix salt, corriander powder, cumin powder, chaat masala with these pieces
• Arrange 7 puris on a plate and add these finely chopped potato pieces on top of it
• Sprinkle green spicy chutney, then curd and then tamarind chutney on it
• Spread shev on top of it and garnish with corriander leaves

Notes
This is an ideal item for the party where in you can keep everything ready and just prepare the dishes while serving