poori recipe | puri recipe | soft puffy poori

Poori also spelt as puri, is a popular breakfast recipe across south India. it is a small disc-shaped bread that is deep-fried in oil and served any veg curry such as matar paneer or veg kurma. It is a highly selling breakfast dish in southern parts of India. It is usually made with either wheat flour or maida or using both flours.

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About the recipe

In every hotel or tiffin centre of south India, we can find pooris served on the breakfast menu and it's such a delicious dish but one can stay away if they are health conscious as these are deep-fried in oil.

I have also shared a video procedure to help the understanding process of this recipe making in a better way.

This is a very simple recipe if proper tips and tricks are followed.

The main ingredients to make this breakfast are wheat flour, oil, salt and water. Here in this recipe, I have added sooji or rava or semolina which helps us in making a perfect puffy poori.

The poori which I made here is absolutely soft and puffy and this can be achieved without any difficulty just by following few steps and not complicating the making procedure.

There are slight variations in making poori and those are nothing but some like to knead the dough with milk instead of water and that option too gives us a soft poori.

Here in the recipe I have added water to knead the dough and yet I got very soft pooris which lasted soft for many hours after keeping them covered.

The conclusion is whether we add water or milk for kneading, the final outcome remains the same.

Tips while making pooris

• Another important tip is to add sooji/semolina/rava which improves the taste of the pooris.
• Add oil/ghee while kneading is very necessary to give a slight crunch to the soft pooris.
• Always make sure that while deep frying pooris, do not fry them in very hot oil as the pooris get the burnt color and lose their perfect flavor.
• Just adding the ingredients mentioned in the recipe process gives us a soft and puffy poori.

Kneading the dough until soft also helps in making soft pooris. We can even use maida/all purpose flour instead of  wheat flour to make poori.

Poori made with maida also turns out delicious.

Below are the recipe details along with a video procedure on how to make poori with soft and puffy texture.

Step by step procedure

• Firstly, take a large bowl, add wheat flour, add sooji/Rava, add salt.

• Mix all the dry ingredients well. Add water little by little and knead until a soft dough is obtained.

• Keep kneading until the dough gets soft.

• Add 2-3 teaspoon oil and knead the dough again and make it even softer.

• Knead well with the hands.

• Cover the dough and rest it for 10-15 minutes.

• Mix and press the dough again. Divide the dough into small lemon sized equal portions.

• Make round balls of each portion of the dough.

• Take each dough ball, dust some flour on the rolling board and roll the poori.

• Roll the dough into a small circular shaped disc. The thickness of the poori should be 1.5 mm to 2 mm approximately.

• Similarly, make pooris of the remaining dough balls. Heat oil for deep frying and drop poori in oil.

• Let the poori start rising up slowly.

• Once it rises up, slightly touch at the corners with a ladle for it to puff up.

• When the poori puffs up, flip and cook the other side for few seconds.

• Take the poori out on tissue paper.

• Reduce the flame for the next poori as the next poori may burn if the oil is too hot.
• Similarly deep fry the rest of the pooris.
• Serve them with poori masala, potato curry etc..

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