Poori

  Pooris are kids all time favorite tiffin. This is definitely very tasty and really tempting tiffin for everyone. Since it is deep fried, it can make us feel full just with a couple of pooris.

Ingredients:

3 cups of wheat flour
1 cup of water 
1 tbsp  of oil
oil for deep frying
salt as required

Preparation: 

1.1.Mix the wheat flour, salt , 1 tbsp of oil and add water. Knead well enough to make a dough. Keep aside for 20 minutes.
2. Make golf-ball sized balls out of the dough. Roll it out. 

3.Heat oil in the kadai, fry the rolled dough on both sides. Press gently with flat ladle on one side so that poori starts to fluff. Turn to the other side till it golden brown.

 

4.Serve with a side dish like dum-aloo, gravy or pickle. 

Aloo paratha

        Stuffed parathas are delicious as it is. There is no extra effort needed to make a side dish as paratha goes well with raitha/ pickle.

Ingredients:

3 cups of wheat flour
1 cup of water 
1 tbsp  of oil
salt as required

Filling:


3 boiled potatoes
1 finely chopped onion
1/2 tbsp of cumin powder
1 tsp of red chilli powder
1 tsp of chaat masala
handful of coriander leaves
Oil as required
salt as required 


Preparation:

1.Mix the wheat flour, salt, oil and add water. Knead well enough to make a dough. Keep aside for half an hour.

2.Peel the potato skin and mash them. Add  onion, finely chopped coriander leaves, red chilli powder, chaat masala, cumin powder and salt to the mashed potatoes. Mix well and the filling is ready. Make small balls of the filling.

3. Make lime sized balls out of the dough, add the filling to it. Roll it out.

4. In a pan put little oil, fry the paratha on both the sides till it turns golden brown. Serve hot fluffed aloo paratha with raitha or pickle.