Bhel Poori

Recipe to make Bhel Poori at home:

Recipe to make Bhel Poori at home

Ingredients for bhel poori:

Make pooris first!!!

Ingredients for Poori:

1.      1 cup wheat flour.

2.      1/2 cup fine wheat flour, Maida.

3.      1 teaspoon salt.

4.      ¼ cup oil.

5.      Oil for deep frying

How to prepare poori:

1.      Mix wheat flour and maida.  knead tough dough, although it should be easily rollable with a rolling pin.

2.      Roll the dough in thin rotis.

3.      Apply little oil on the surface of rotis and perforate it with a fork.

4.      Now cut the roti in small square pieces. You can use different shapes of cookie cutters for desired shapes.

5.      Keep the small squares aside, making sure that no two pieces remain stuck to each other.

6.      Deep fry the pieces and keep aside.

Ingredients for imli ki chutney (red sauce).

1.      50 grams tamarind (imli).

2.      50 grams dates (Khajoor).

3.      100 grams sugar.

4.      ½ teaspoon salt.

5.      ½ teaspoon black salt (kala namak).

6.      ½ teaspoon readymade chaat masala.

7.      ½ teaspoon red chili powder.

8.      100 grams jiggery (Gud).

How to make imli ki chutney (red sauce):

1.      Boil khajoor and imli in a pressure cooker for 2 whistles.

2.      Dissolve gud in half a cup of water.

3.      Mash pressured imli and khajoor into a smooth paste.

4.      Strain and separate seeds.

5.      Add strained paste to dissolved gud.

6.      Add salt, chili powder, chaat masala, kala namak and boil till the consistency is like sauce.

7.      Cool it to room temperature.

Ingredients for  hari chutney (coriander sauce)

1.      200 grams coriander leaves.

2.      6 green chilies.

3.      2 teaspoons of lemon juice.

4.      1 teaspoon salt.

How to make hari chutney (coriander sauce)

1.      Chop coriander leaves and green chilies.

2.      Wash thoroughly with clean water.

3.      Mix salt and lemon juice.

4.      Grind to a very smooth paste.

5.      Add water if required.

6.      Keep aside.

How to serve bhel poori.

Ingredients for serving bhel poori:

1.      Pooris

2.      Imli ki chutney (red sauce).

3.      Hari chutney (Corriander sauce).

4.      Boiled and finely cut potatoes.

5.      Finely cut onion

6.      Red chili powder.

7.      Barik sev.

8.      Chaat masala.

How to serve:

1.      Place pooris in a dish.

2.      Top each poori with pieces of potatoes and onion.

3.      Sprinkle hari chutney and imli ki chutney.

4.      Cover all pooris with barik sev.

5.      Garnish with red chili powder, chaat masala and coriander leaves.