Palak Poori
Yummy fluffy Poori's(crispy and soft Indian deep fried breads), with a flavourful combination of healthy wholewheat and spinach- a favourite of kids and as equally loved by grownups.
Ingredients
Spinach Puree
- 100 grams palak leaves/ spinach leaves washed and roughly chopped
- 2-3 cloves garlic whole
- 1-2 green chillies whole
Dough
- 2 cups wholewheat flour
- salt as per taste
- 1 tsp red chilli powder
- 1 tsp oil any vegetable oil/ olive oil
- 2 tbsp malai (homemade cream) if not available you can use fresh cream/ clotted cream or absolutely avoid it
- Oil For deep Frying
Instructions
Spinach Puree
- Blanch the spinach leaves/palak leaves along with 2-3 cloves of garlic, green chillies,and 2-3 tsp water, in a covered pan for 5-6min.
- Once cool, blend the above to make a smooth puree.
Making the dough
- In a deep dish, take all the ingredients for the dough together- Add wholewheat flour, salt, red chilli powder, malai/cream,and oil, and the spinach puree that is room temperature now.
- Thoroughly mix all the ingredients together. Knead the dough.This is best done using your clean hands.
- Make sure the dough is not very soft, and neither too hard.
- Cover it with a damp muslin cloth for 10-12 min.
- Heat Oil in a separate deep pan or a Kadhai.
- Now divide it the dough equally , making small round balls.You can oil your hands to make smooth round balls.
- Now flatten these using a rolling pin, into thin flat round rolls.
- Slip the roll into hot oil using a slotted spoon.Make sure the oil is hot enough.Carefully splash oil on the top of poori.Once the one side is cooked, turn the poori. This just takes 1-2 minutes.
- Deep fry all poori's the same way. Enjoy the hot poori's as a snack or meal with pickles, raita or any vegetable.
Notes
1.Adding Malai/ Cream makes the poori very soft and crispy, hence I add it. But you can avoid adding it , if you do not want to.
2. The puree already has water, so you will not need more water to knead the dough, but just incase the dough feels too dry, you can add little water to get the desired consistency.