Ravi Made Puri (Indian Flat Bread)

This evening I made puri for part of our dinner. Ravi wanted to try it so I let him give it a test drive.

Here is the recipe:

2 cups of whole wheat flour
1 cup (approx) of luke warm water
Pinch of salt

Mix the flour mixture with your hands until the dough sticks together nicely. If it is too mushy, add a tiny bit of flour. If it is too dry, add a tiny bit of water, but use your common sense to make the right consistancy.

Once you have a ball that is sticking together, divide the ball in half, and roll out both halves. Pinch off a small amount of dough until you have pinched all the dough. Take each peice of dough, and roll each one until it is in a nice ball shape. Then pinch the dough on the outer edges and middle, until it is fairly flat.

Using your rolling pin (or mason jar) roll the dough into a circular flat shape.

Meanwhile, have the oil in your pan heating up (about medium until it is hot enough (use a pinch of the dough flattened, drop in the pan and it should rise up fast if the oil is ready).

Carefully drop the puri dough into the pan (careful not to splash oil) and let it rise up and start to puff up. Take a metal spoon (slotted spoons are best) and hold the puri down in the oil until the the whole puri puffs up. Flip the puri over and let it brown until it is golden brown. Then hold the puri on the side of the pan and allow the oil to drip out of the puri.

Place the puri on a plate with a paper towel.

Do this until all of the puri dough is cooked. Use the puri with potato curry, cabbage curry any other curry that you would like to eat it with. Pull off a peice of puri and eat your food by hand by pinching the curry with the puri.

Enjoy!
Jyotsna

And now for the photos:




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