When i posted the recipe of POORI MASALA | POORI KIZHANGU, few readers were asking to post the recipe of how to make poori too. Though i make it twice a month, but never had a chance to click the making of Poori as either it would be on weekends or on a weekday morning breakfast. Finally i made poori for kids snack , after they come from school, generally they eat meals as they normally take some tiffin like idli, paratha, chapathi or bread for lunch. When i made this around 3 pm suddenly i thought i would click poori so that it will be useful for readers too. So in a hurry i clicked and posting the recipe now.
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Scroll down to note down the tips as how to make poori in advance if you have guests coming to home.
Preparation Time : 10 mins | Cooking Time : 15 Mins |Serves: 8 pooris
Whole wheat flour| atta 1 cup
Salt to taste
Sugar 1/4 tsp
Sooji | rava 1 tsp
Water to knead the dough
Oil for deep frying
Method with step wise pictures:
- In a wide bowl add the whole wheat flour, salt, sugar,sooji (if adding) and slowly add water to this and make this into a stiff dough. Ensure that it should not have cracks.
- Do not make the dough very tight else while rolling it will not come smooth. Do not make it too soft else it will absorb oil too.
- Divide this into equal sized small balls.
- Heat the oil for deep frying.
- Dip one end of the dough ball into the oil and start rolling the pooris.
- Dusting in flour makes the oil spoil soon. You end up getting lot of residue.
- Do not roll the pooris too thin of too thick. Roll into medium thick.
- When the oil is hot, carefully drop this into the oil and deep fry on both sides.
- Using a jolted ladle take out the puffed poori draining the excess oil.
- Always ensure that the oil is very hot. else pooris will not puff.
- If the pooris while rolling has any hole in it it will not puff.
Notes for making pooris for guests
Generally i won’t opt for making pooris when i have guests coming to my house for lunch or dinner. I always make Chapathis as i can make in advance and keep in a casserole. If i start make making pooris, i can not spend time with the guests and finally they also end up coming in the kitchen to help me out to roll the pooris. But i learnt this tip from a friend which i tried twice and it worked out very well.
- Grease a wide plate with oil.
- Roll the pooris as mentioned above . Place them on the greased plate . while placing do not keep it one above the other. they should not be over lapped.
- Put a cling wrap on this and keep it in the refrigerator . this can be made 1- 2 hrs in advance.
- Just when all are ready to eat, heat the oil and start frying the pooris.
- You get fluffy soft pooris.
it looks so tempting…….yummy
jeyashree
before putting pooris,should the oil be medium hot or very hot?how much time a poori take?thanks.
The oil should be very hot while putting the first poori, may be later after 2-3 you can bring it to medium hot, adjust accordingly. If too smoky,simmer it. If not too hot, pooris will not puff.Pooris will get fried in 30to 45 seconds if oil is hot.
Nice write up Jeyashri. Love the way the puri looks. I have my puri pics in the draft for so long. Atleast after seeing ur post I feel like writing mine.
I'll keep the tip in mind & try next time. Me too planning to post poori for long time but couldnt 🙂
my mother in law makes it similarly…by adding rava and sugar to the flour. Puri looks super tempting …
poori is all time favorite 🙂 !
Perfectly puffed up pooris.
nice poori and nice post
i love to eat poori but i avoid bco'z of the deep frying.. perfect looking poori..
very tempting clicks Jeyashri, perfect puffed poori..
I have been craving puri alu for some time. your perfect round puris are temtping me
Nice tip jeyasri…most of time, my guests will be coming and helping me out while calling them for dinner. Will follow this way to roll and fry..
All time favorite
Nicely puffed puris. Nice idea to rilk and keep in fridge
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puri is all time favourite to one and all… very tempting..
I also avoid making puris for the parties just for the same reason which you have mentioned :-). Your idea is very nice but, I couldn’t get it completely. You are saying that it should not overlap each other. In that case do you keep lot of trays? if yes, then how do you stack it without touching each other.
It is tough to keep lot of trays in fridge, atleast you can roll 2-3 trays and keep it separately in each rack say 15 to 20 pooris and roll so that initially few u can start frying atleast.
Pooris are a favourite at home..looks so tempting…
I have seen that if you knead or roll the poori dough in advance, they absorb lot of oil..so I always make when required for us at home
But during parties, I do fry the Pooris immediately she I knead the dough, that will be the last dish I make for that day..so when serving it will be warm, not puffy and super hot..but no option , when you have to make around 100 Pooris..
Just finished my dinner but still seeing ur pooris am tempted to have few 🙂
Thank you for this recipe. I ate poori few days ago and I love it. I will try out your recipe at home. Greetings from Poland 🙂
Nicely made poori with wonderful tips
Hi. Since 2 years, this is the method I always used. It never failed. But , today the poories fluffed up but came out like panipuri ( pappadum) very crisp. I used just 1 tsp of rava. Could you tell me where the fault is? Is it the atta or something else? Kindly give a tip. Thank you.
Hi,i feel the dough may be too stiff. That's why it has come out like that.Generally pani poori we make the dough bit stiff to make it crisp. Also did you fry for a longer time.