Puri

Puri in Marathi

Serves: approx 15 Puris

Ingredients:
1 cup Wheat Flour
1 tbsp Chickpea flour
1 tbsp Semolina
1/2 tsp Salt or to taste
1 tbsp Oil
Oil for deep frying
You will also need a clean damp cloth to cover the dough.

Method:
1) In a mixing bowl, add wheat flour, chickpea flour, Semolina and salt to taste. Mix. Into a small saucepan Heat 1 tbsp Oil. Make it very hot and pour it on flour mixture, wait for 2 minutes.
2) Add water and knead a pretty hard dough. Dough should not be too hard or too soft. Cover the dough and let it sit for 10 minutes.
3) After 10 minutes, knead the dough nicely. Make equal balls, each should be of 2 cm in diameter. You can make bigger sized balls if you feel, but make sure all balls should be equal in size.
4) Heat Oil for frying puries over medium flame. meantime, start rolling puris. Puris should not be too thick or thin. Thickness should be approx 1 mm. roll out puris into round shape, as much as you can and cover with damp cloth.
5) Once oil is hot, add puris and deep fry them until golden brown and puffed nicely.