Ingredients:

• For cooking Dal :
• Arhar dal – 1 cup
• Turmeric – 1/2 tsp
• Red Chilli powder- as per taste
• Dry ground coriander – 2 tsp
• Salt as per taste
• Dry Mango powder – 1 tsp
• For pharre :
• Wheat flour – 2 cups
• Ajwain – 1/2 tsp
• Saunf (ground) – 1/2 tsp
• Red Chilli (ground) – 1/2 tsp
• Oil for Tadka
• Heeng – a pinch
• Black musturd seeds – 1 tsp
• Jeera – 1 tsp
• Dry Coriander seeds – 7-8
• Fenugreek seeds – 7-8
• Curry leaves – few
• Onion – 1, sliced finely
• Garlic – 7 to 8 sliced finely
• Green chilly – 1 cut in small pieces
• Ginger – 1 inch cut in small pieces
• Oil – 1 tbsp

Method:

1. Cook dal in cooker giving two whisles and sim for 5 minutes.
2. Make dough of wheat flour with other ingredients.
3. Make 15-16 balls of this dough and roll out the ball in small poori shape.
4. Fold these pooris in flower shape.
5. For flower shape, four corners of poori can be held and stuck to each other.
6. Add water to cook dal.
7. Add dry mango powder to it and boil again.
8. Add poori flower to it one by one pouring dal over them so that they dip in dal completely.
9. Cook again until two whistles.
10. Heat oil in tadka pan. crackle mustard seeds, coriander and fenugreek seeds, then heeng and jeera, add curry leaves.
11. Add onion till golden brown, add garlic, ginger and green chilli.
12. Pour tadka on dal phara.
13. Garnish with green coriander and serve.

Recipe courtesy of Sify Bawarchi