Description
Lovely Puffy Indian Bread
Ingredients
Scale
- 2 cups chapatti or whole wheat pastry flour
- 1/2 tsp of salt
- 1 and 1/2 Tbs of vegetable oil
- 3/4 to 1 cup of water
- Oil to fry with
Instructions
- Mix together the flour, salt and oil
- When they’re all blended add in the water slowly using only as much as you need to mix the dough together.
- Knead the dough, you want it nice and smooth and elastic
- Put it in a bowl and cover it with a damp cloth
- Let it rest for about 30 minutes to an hour
- In a wok or kadhai or deep fryer heat vegetable oil for deep frying
- Get the oil hot, hot, hot!
- If it’s not hot enough the dough won’t puff up properly
- Portion the dough into 16 little balls
- Roll them out into circles
- Drop the circles into the hot oil and watch them balloon up and turn golden
- Turn them in the oil so both sides brown
- take the golden puffed up pooris out of the oil and place them on a paper towel lined plate.
- Serve them up!
- Prep Time: 45 mins
- Cook Time: 15 mins