Friday, September 23, 2016

Aloo Puri

Aloo puri is a Indian chat which everyone loves to eat and its taste is awesome.Instead of spending lot of money on just a plate of Aloo puri chat, It can be prepared at home and enjoy with whole family. It is puri filled with boiled potato, spicy gravy and garnished with green peas, onion, tomato, cilantro and sev






Preparation time: 2hours
Serves: 10

Ingredients:
For masala:
Onion chopped -1
Chopped tomatoes-1
grated coconut -1 cup
Toor dal boiled -1 cup
Green peas boiled -1tablesppon [ Dry peas soaked in water overnight and then boiled with salt and water]
Corainder leaves/cilantro
Green chilli -2
Ginger -1/2 inch
Garlic-5
Clove -2
Cinnamon-1/2inch
Garam masala-1tspoon
Redchilli powder -2tspoon
Jeera powder-1 tspoon
Coriander seeds powder -2tspoons
Chat powder -2tspoon
Panipuri masala -2tspoon
Black salt-1tspoon
Salt as per taste

For Pooris:
Maida flour -2 tspoons
Chiroti rava/Sooji -2cup [around 75 pooris can  be made]
Oil -1/2tspoon
Salt 1/4 tspoon
Oil for deep frying

To Garnish and serve:
Chopped onion
Chopped tomatoes
Chopped coriander leaves
Grated carrot
Boiled green peas
Boiled and chopped potato and mix with redchilli powder and salt.
Om mixture
Lemon juice
Curd
Sweet chutney - Tamarind concetrate + jaggery powder/sugar + 1/2tspoon of jeera powder

Method:

  1. Take a pan and add 2tspoon of oil and the fry the onion, coconut, clove, cinnamon, coriander leaves, ginger, garlic. Add all these fried items, tomatoes, boiled toor dal and green peas, water into mixer and grind it to get smooth paste.
  2. Take a vessel and transfer the masala to it, add red chilli powder, dhaniya powder, jeera powder,garam masala, chat powder and bring to boil for 10 min.Then add black salt and switch off the flame. Check the taste to adjust the salt. Masala for Aloopuri is ready
  3. Procedure to make puri: Take a mixing bowl add sooji rava, salt and warm water in small amount and can notice that the rava has softened. Then add maida and knead it well for 10 min. check if there is too much water then can add maida to adjust and get a stiff dough. Now add oil and knead it for another 5min.Keep it aside for 20min
  4. Take the small quantity of dough and roll it to roti. Now with help of a round cookie cutter or a lid of any container , make the round pieces.
  5. In a pan take oil for deep frying, when it is hot add the round pieces  and can notice its puffing upto become pooris. fry on both sides to get golden colour and drain it on Tissue paper.
  6. Take a plate, Make hole in the pooris, Fill it with  more amount of Potato mix , masala and small amount of all garnishing items. At the end add curd and serve.