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Dhahi Puri
DESCRIPTION
This is a popular street delicacy made from puffed deep fried bread filled with savoury yoghurt and salad. An easy and excellent snack alternative.
Ingredients
Method
- ½ cup sooji (semolina)
- Sprinkle of plain flour
- 1 cup yoghurt
- 2-3 tsp of sugar
- Salt to taste
- Coriander leaves for garnish
- 1 onion
- 1 red chilli
- Small amount of water to make the dough
- ½ tomato chopped
- ½ cucumber diced
- ½ cup dhal mooth
- ½ cup hot sev
- Take a large plate or bowl
- Add semolina and salt to taste in it.
- Gradually add water on the semolina and mix until all semolina stick together
- Add a little plain flour to remove the wetness and continue to form a dough
- Add little amount oil if the dough is stick
- Leave the dough aside for 5 minutes
- Divide the dough into 2 large balls and flatten it out using a rolling pin
- Take a lid of wide mouthed bottle and using its edge, cut out small circles of puris from this dough. Watch this video if required to assist you with this step.
- Keep wok on the stove and add enough oil for deep frying
- Allow the oil to heat.
- Add the circle dough into the oil and allow it cook well. They must puff up and turn golden brown. Then remove. Continue this step with all the puris.
- Take the yoghurt and mix the sugar with it
- Make a small hole at the top of the puris by breaking a small portion and insert the yoghurt into the puris
- Place them in a plateand sprinkle hot sev and dhal mooth on top of the puri
- Add the diced cucumber and tomatoes on and around the puris on the plate
- Add onions on top and garnish with coriander leaves
- Spread the remaining yoghurt over the plate
- Sprinkle the remaining dhal mooth and hot sev on the plate
- Serve
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