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Poori recipe

poori recipe
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Ingredients

Dry ingredients:

  • 1 cup wheat flour
  • required salt
  • pinch of sugar
  • 1/2 teaspoon fine rava

Wet ingredients:

  • 1/2 tablespoon oil
  • 1/4 cup + as needed water

To fry:

  • Oil

Instructions

  • Add wheat flour, fine rava, salt, a pinch of sugar in a wide bowl; mix well
  • Spoon oil and mix well
  • Add 1/4 cup of water and mix well to form a stiff dough
  • Furthermore, sprinkle and add water little by little and knead (around 2 -3 tbsp)
  • Knead and make stiff & tight dough that is neither soft like roti dough nor crumbly or dry
  • Avoid over kneading. If you press the dough with your fingers, you will still feel it tight and stiff, not soft
  • Grease the dough with little oil and cover the poori dough with a damp cloth and rest for 5 minutes
  • Add oil in a heavy-bottomed pan and let oil gets hot
  • After 5 minutes of resting roll the dough once and pinch a small portion of the dough. Keep the remaining dough covered
  • Roll the dough with your palm and flatten the dough with a rolling pin
  • Add little oil on the board and roll the poori not so thick /thin. It should be moderately thick otherwise puri will not puff
  • Do even rolling as it helps did puffy poori. You can sprinkle little flour and roll but dust it before frying else excess flour might burn in the oil
  • roll big poori (around 1/8 inch thickness) and cut into the desired size with a cookie cutter or lid or roll small poori
  • Place the rolled poori on a kitchen towel and place it for at least 2 minutes before frying
  • Check if the oil is hot drop a small piece of dough if it raises immediately then the oil is at the right temperature
  • If it browns oil is too hot reduce
  • If it doesn’t raise oil heat oil for some more time
  • Gently slide the puri from the side. If you have used flour, do dust off the excess flour before frying. As soon as i
  • Soft press the poori with a slotted ladle or spider ladle to make the puri puff and cook evenly
  • If you press too hard, holes can form on the poori and will not puff.
  • Poori puffs well and frothy bubbles settle
  • turn over the puri and gently press the poori, fry another side
  • After both sides turn golden brown transfer the fried puri to an oil filter or steel colander/ plate lined with kitchen towels to absorb any excess oil
  • Fry the remaining puri, maintain the oil temperature by increasing or reducing the flame as needed .make sure the oil is hot enough but not smoking hot. Avoid crowding the oil with puri, Fry in batches based on pan size

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Notes

  1. If you have used flour, do dust off the excess flour before frying. As soon as it is added to the pan, it sinks completely.
  2. Avoid resting the dough for longtime
  3. After rolling poori rest it for a minute then fry
  4. Sooji is optional but it makes poori puffy
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