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Thursday, April 10, 2008

How to prepare White Puris (Bhatura)

Serves: 4
Cooking time: 1 hour
Ingredients:
2 cups refined flour(maida) sieved, 1 potato peeled and mashed,
1/4 tsp soda bicard, 6 tbsps curds well beaten, 1/2 tsp sugar,
Ghee, Salt to taste

Steps to prepare White puris
  • Mix the maida, mashed potato, soda bicarb, curds, salt and sugar and form a soft dough adding enough water.
  • Leave covered for 10 hours to ferment.
  • After the dough has risen well, knead and make into small balls. Roll out in 8 cms discs and deep fry in hot ghee. They should puff up and look almost round.
  • Serve with chana and sliced onions.

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