POORI(WITH WHEAT FLOUR)

POORI/PURI is a deep fried indian bread which has a great taste. I have already shown one version of Poori ie. POORI WITH WHEAT FLOUR & SEMOLINA, now i am showing another version of poori ie. POORI(WITH WHEAT FLOUR). The excellent side dish for poori is aloo curry. You can have this poori for breakfast/light meal/snack.

Ingredients:

1. Wheat flour -1/2cup
2. Sugar -1tbsp
3. Salt -1tbsp (as per your taste)
4. Ghee -2 tbsp and few tbsp for cooking
5. water -little bit less than ½ cup 
6. Oil for deep frying
7. Oil required while rolling

Preparation Method:

• Take a bowl add wheat flour, salt, sugar, ghee & mix well.
• Knead the dough by adding water and knead very well (dough should be thight not like chapathi dough).

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• Keep it aside for 10 min.
• Divide the dough into desired sized round balls.
• Now take a round ball on to a rolling board (if you want apply oil on rolling board before rolling) & flatten with fingers.
• Roll the ball up to your desired thickness (little bit more than the chapathi’s thickness) and length (shorter than the chapathi’s length).
• In the mean keep a kadai with oil on stove for deep frying the pooris.
• Before frying the pooris, check whether oil is heated or not by adding a pinch of dough into the oil, if the dough came up from bottom of the oil with in seconds then it is the right time to fry the pooris.
• Now add the poori and immediately tap on top of the poori with help of spatula so that they puff  like a balloon.

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• Flip the poori to the other side once the down side of the poori got little golden color.

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• After other side too got the color take from the oil with help of slotted spatula (shake up an down in kadai while taking from the oil , so that excess oil will drop into the kadai from holes of the slotted spatula).
• Repeat the same for rest of the pooris.

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Hot hot pooris are ready for serving. Serve this with most popular aloo curry or any gravy curry.