
Ingredients:
• 1 cup – Wheat flour (atta)
• 2 bunches – Methi leaves
• 2 – Green chillies
• Salt to taste
• 1 tbsp – water
• Water as needed
• 1/4 liter – oil
• Ingredients for Masala:
• 4 – big size Potatoes
• 1 – Onion
• 1 – Tomato
• Salt to taste
• 1 tsp – Mustard Seeds
• 2 – Green chilli
• 1 tsp – Channa dal
• Coriander leaves – few
• 1/4 tsp – Turmeric powder
• 1 tbsp – gingili oil
Method:
- Pressure cook the potatoes and once cooked, remove the skin and break it into small pieces.
- Finely chop the onion and tomato and green chilli and keep it aside.
- In a heavy bottomed pan, add gingili oil and add mustard seeds when the oil is hot.
- When the mustard seeds starts to sputter, add channa dal and fry until it becomes golden red colour.
- Now add turmeric powder, along with chopped green chillies, tomato and onion.
- Fry it till tomato and onion are cooked completely.
- Now add cooked potato pieces and mix it well along with salt
- Add required water and make the consistency little thin so that it will be like gravy.
- Finely garnish with chopped coriander leaves.
- The delicious Potato masala is ready to serve with poori.
- Method to make Poori:
- Take the wheat flour in a bowl and add salt and keep it ready.
- Clean the methi leaves and finely chop the methi leaves. Grind it along with green chilli to a paste.
- Add the methi-green chilli paste to the wheat flour.
- Sprinkle little water and knead it to a tight dough. We should not keep the methi leaves-green chilli paste aside after grinding then the paste will start to taste bitter. Immediately after grinding the paste, we need to mix it with the wheat flour to make a dough.
- Make small balls of the wheat flour.
- Take one ball of wheat flour and roll it to 4-5 inch poori using a rolling pin. The same way make other balls of wheat flour.
- In a heavy bottomed pan, pour the oil and when the oil is hot, gently put the rolled dough.
- Immediately start flickering hot oil over the top of it with a spatula so that it will swell up like a ball.
- This should take only a few seconds. Flip the poori over and cook the other side until golden brown.
- Poori is ready to serve with masala.
- Recipe courtesy: Subbu’s Kitchen.
Recipe courtesy of Subbalakshmi Ranganathan