Masala Puri

Masala Puri.   

By.. Joy.

Ingredients: 
3 cups Baajri flour, 
4 spoons kasuri methi, 
3 cloves of garlic, 
3 spoons red chilli powder,                                     
2 spoons ajwain,                   
salt as required, 
1 tsp.Rocksalt, 
2 tbsp of yogurt, 
5 spoons of sugar,
Half cup oil
Half to quarter cup Water or less for making the dough. Use spoonfuls.
Method: 
Take Baajra flour, put it into a mixing pan. Add kasuri methi, ajwain, red chilli powder, rock salt, salt. Cut the cloves into fine pieces, or grate, and add it to the mixture. Mix the ingredients nicely. Take yogurt, add sugar in it, and oil and beat the mixture into a fine paste. Add this paste into the flour mix. Then keep adding water by spoons and knead the flour into a fine dough. The dough consistency would be soft, but one you may not be able to use with a rolling pin. You will need a dry flour to splatter, if you try the rolling pin. So the dough should be able to make you make small balls, smaller than munchkins. Make small, 1 and 1/2 inch balls. Take a hard plastic sheet. Grease it, put the ball on it, hand press the ball into a small flat puri or a pancake. You can use a tortilla maker, to make these, if you have it. You will need to grease it. Put the frier on the stove, or the frying pan on the gas range. Put oil in it for trying these puris. Lifting this puris and putting it into the fried may pose a problem. Since the dough might stick, you have to grease often. I normally fry them, as I make them. So the dough does not sit, long enough to stick. I would press like two or three at a time and put it in the fried, depending on how big you are doing it. It it is big, do some more and then put it. Use, a greased flat spatula to lift and put the puri into the frying pan. Fry until it is light to medium brown, and looks fried. Serve these puris with, date chutney, or ketchup, or chilli ketchup. Some just like it as is.