Tikhat Puri – Marathi Recipe

Instructions

• In a dish, take wheat flour.
• Add besan, red chili powder, coriander powder, Cumin seeds and ajwain powder, sesame seeds, turmeric powder and salt.
• Mix the dry spices well with flour.
• Add a little water at a time and knead the thick dough of it. Don’t add much water at a time.
• Grease the dough with little oil and transfer the dough into a bowl.
• Cover and give it a standing time of 30-45 minutes.
• After about an hour take the dough out and knead once more.
• Take some dough and roll medium-thick chapatti. Chapati should neither be too thick or too thin.
• You can make small balls and roll the puris too.
• Until you roll the puris, heat up oil in a pan for frying.
• After rolling out the chapatti, make puris with the help of a lid.
• When puris are ready transfer them into a dish.
• When the oil is enough hot, lower the heat to low.
• Drop one puri into the hot oil. After dropping, press it a little with a ladle.
• When fried well from one side, flip over and fry from another side as well.
• Remove the puri from hot oil, drain excess oil, and put it on a tissue paper.
• You can make 24-25 medium size puris from 2 cups wheat flour.
• Tikhat puri goes well with tea.
• It has got a shelf life of about 7-8 days. So this can be good traveling food.