Puri's for Pani-Puri

I am back again with my crunchy recipe called "Puri's" for Pani-Puri. Puri's is the one of the recipe which I was thinking to post for a long time. Pani-puri is also known as "Gol Gappa" & it is popular street food in India. Basically Pani-puri means "flavored water in fried breads". Pani-puri is round hollow puri shell filled with a spicy potato based stuffing and dipped in a watery based sauce. I am sure you will hardly find a corner without Pani-puri thela (stall)..

Pani-puri is my favorite snack since teenage, I still remember me and my friend used to enjoy Pani-puri from the Pani-puri thela on the street of home town "Pali" . My 3 year  toddler and my husband both are crazy about  Pani-puri. We enjoy this atleast once in a week for evening snack or dinner.

Making "puri's" for Pani-puri is very easy. In general the Puri's loose the crisp once they are cooled down, But no worries with my recipe. you guys can easily  resolve this issue. Let's move to ingredients:-

Rava or Sooji/Semolina      1cup
Salt                                     1/2tsp
Plain soda water               1/2 or 3/4cup
Roti maker or Tortilla maker

Method:-

• In a bowl add Sooji (fine one)

• now we are going to add salt and mix.

• Let's add soda in small quantities and start  kneading  the dough. ( here I am using sprite, remember add only soda, no plain water).

• Sooji absorbs liquid while kneading, basically depending on the quality of Sooji you may need to add more or less soda. The dough should be like paratha dough, it  should not be too soft nor too hard. (If your dough become too hard then add little more soda water or If your dough become too much soft then add little sooji to it).

• Cover with a moist kitchen towel and let it rest for 15 minutes.

•  After 15 minutes remove the cloth, and start kneading for a minutes, if you feel your dough is little hard , sprinkle some plain water and continue kneading for half a minute.

• Here, for this recipe I am using Roti maker for making puri's instead of rolling on pastry board. Because it quite easy for making puri's no need of rolling and cutting.

• Roti maker is the wildcard for this recipe. Just make m&m size ball and press it( don't forget to preheat your roti maker).

• OMG! how beautiful isn't it. We can prepare 3 to 4 puri's at a time, Mean-while will heat our oil at high temperature.

• Once oil is hot, reduce the flame to medium and maintain it throughout. Oh Ghosh we are done with puri's, see how even they are,

• we are ready for frying. Let slowly and gently slide the discs into the oil and with the help of the back of a ladle slightly press it, this will make the puri's to puff up. After this reduce the heat to medium low,

• flip and fry till golden brown and crisp.

• Remove puri's onto a paper towel.

Note:- You should maintain your oil temperature otherwise your puri's will be soft but still they got color, so whenever you remove your first batch of puri's  and before adding new batch into oil increase your heat to medium, this will help to prevent puri's soft.
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Place puri's on baking tray into a preheated oven at 200 degree F or 93 degree C for atleast 20-30 minutes or until moisture gone.