Puri is an Indian bread commonly consumed in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and other countries of South Asia. It is eaten either at breakfast with a cup of tea or it can be eaten as a bread with a variety of curries. According to Wikipedia, the word puri originates from the Sanskrit word 'purika' which means filled. it also means bread in Georgian. Some time back I did a post titled "The great Puri disaster" where I explained to my readers how I struggled making this Indian bread. However, my mom is a genius in the kitchen and hence her puri comes out perfectly on the first attempt. In today's blog post mom will be sharing her puri recipe with all my blog readers. If any of you out there have tried the recipes under the page "Rey's Kitchen Delights", kindly provide me with feedback....
1. Place one and a half cups of flour in a dish
2. Add 1/2 (half) teaspoon salt
3. Add 3/4 teaspoon baking powder
4. Add 1 ounce butter
5. Rub the butter into the flour until it forms crumbs
6. Add 180 ml of milk and water (90 ml milk and 90 ml water).
Add the mixture slowly to make a nice, soft dough
7. This is how the dough should look after mixing
all the ingredients.
8. Divide the dough into equal portions as depicted above
9. Roll the dough into a circle. Not to thick and not too thin
10. Cut the circle into fours as depicted below.
11. In a pot add oil and heat on stove. The oil needs to be nice and
hot. Adjust temperature whilst frying accordingly
12. The video above depicts clearly how the cut up
triangles should be fried. Puris should not be oily.
If they turn out oily after frying it means that there is
something wrong with the dough. A perfect puri would
blow up nicely when frying and it would be soft and mildly
crisp. A hard puri is also indicative of the dough made
incorrectly
13. The end product!! In our home we usually serve roast chicken
with puris. We also serve puris with pateria and kheer
