Poori recipe or puri recipe. Poori is one of the well-known Breakfast dishes enjoyed in all regions of India. To make these, wheat flour dough is rolled to small discs and then deep fried. These discs puff up when fried in hot oil. While most people make poori using wheat flour, some make with maida or with a mix of atta, semolina and maida. Each lend a different texture and taste to the pooris.
Most tiffin centres in South India make these with a mix of atta, maida & rava. But in many homes these are made with just wheat flour known as atta.
The recipe shared here will give you poori that will be slightly crisp, soft and yet puffy.
More breakfast recipes,
Dosa
Idli
Upma
Poha
Poori can be served with
Puri masala
Potato masala
Chana masala
Sagu
Coconut chutney
Mix veg kurma
Halwa
Basundi
Shrikand or Mango shrikand
Puri recipe or Poor recipe
Poori recipe | Puri recipe | How to make poori recipe
Poori recipe - puri is a popular breakfast from Indian cuisine. It is served with poori masala, potato masala curry, sagu, kurma or chutney.
Ingredients (240 ml cup used)
- 1 cup wheat flour (or atta)
- ¾ tsp semolina (or fine rava or chiroti rava)
- ¾ tsp oil (or ghee)
- water as needed (approximately ¼ cup plus 1 to 2 tbsp)
- salt (as needed)
- oil (for deep frying)
How to make the recipe
Making poori dough
Add flour, salt, rawa and oil to a bowl. Mix all of them.
Pour ¼ cup water and begin to mix.
Sprinkle water as needed and make a stiff tight dough. It must be stiff and not soft or too moist. It must not be too dry or crumbly as well.
Drizzle ½ tsp oil and knead it lightly just to smoothen the ball. Do not knead it a lot otherwise it will turn soft and absorb oil while frying.
Keep this covered all the time until the last poori is rolled.
Do not rest the dough for more than 3 to 5 minutes. The longer it rests quicker the puffed puri will collapse. They will turn oily after frying.
Divide it to 8 to 10 portions.
Smoothen all the balls by rolling them lightly in between your palms. Avoid kneading them. Keep them covered in the bowl.
Rolling poori
Sprinkle very little flour on the rolling area. Alternately you can drizzle little oil and spread it.
Place a ball over the flour or oil on the rolling area. Sprinkle very little flour or smear oil over the ball.
Flatten the ball. Begin to roll it evenly from the center to a round puri. It should not be too thick or thin. It must be moderately thick which helps the puri to puff.
Make 5 to 6 puris and set them aside. If you have used flour, then dust it off from each of the pooris. Do not stack them.
Begin to heat the oil on a medium high flame and continue to make rest of the pooris.
Frying poori
The oil has to be hot enough. Check by dropping a small portion of dough to the pan. It has to rise immediately without browning. If it browns quickly then reduce the flame slightly and allow the temperature to come down.
Drop the puri carefully to the hot oil. Do not disturb until it rises half way to the surface.
Quickly gently begin to press down with a perforated ladle. This helps the poori to puff well.
Once puri puffs, flip it carefully. Fry on the other side as well until golden and crisp. You can fry flipping too and fro once more until slightly crisp & to get the desired color - light golden to dark golden.
Remove the puri to a kitchen tissue.
Fry the next poori the same way. Make sure the oil is hot enough before dropping the next puri.
Serve poori with potato curry, chutney or kurma.
Recipe Video
Video of poori recipe
Recipe Notes
Notes on poori recipe
You can also make masala poori or spiced poori. Just add
1/8 tsp cumin or jeera powder
½ tsp red chilli powder
¼ tsp garam masala
½ tsp fine crushed kasuri methi and some salt to the flour.
- Using too much of semolina can make the poori hard or the top layer can turn too crisp & flaky.
- Fine rava or semolina or chiroti rava works best. If you do not have rawa, just skip it. If using chiroti rava, you can use about 2 tsps per cup of flour.
- Dough has to be stiff and tight but at the same time it must not be crumbly or too dry.
- You must be able to make smooth balls when you roll the ball in between your palms.
- Do not over knead the dough at anytime as it softens the dough. This will make the pooris oily.
Preparation for poori recipe
1. Add flour, rava and salt to a mixing bowl. You can also skip rava and salt. If using milled flour (atta from flour mill) then do sieve and discard the bran.
2. Pour oil.
3. Also pour 4 tbsps water.
4. Begin to mix.
5. Sprinkle more water as needed.
Making dough for poori
6. Make a stiff & tight dough that is not crumbly or dry. It must not be soft like the roti dough.
7. Drizzle little oil and knead lightly to just smoothen the ball. Do not knead it for longer like it is done for roti or chapati.
8. Dough must still be stiff and tight. When you press it with your fingers, you will still feel it is tight and stiff, not soft.
9. Cover it until you finish rolling all the poori. I usually do not rest it for more than 3 to 5 minutes.
10. Divide it to 8 to 10 parts.
11. Gently roll them in between your palms just to make them smooth. Do not knead them.
12. Sprinkle flour over the rolling area or smear some oil. Using oil for rolling keeps the deep frying oil clear till the end. It is good especially if your are making lot of puris. If using flour, make sure you use as little as possible and dust it off from each of the puri before frying.
How to make poori recipe
13. Begin to roll the poori evenly from the center.
14. Do not roll them too thin or too thick.
15. They need to be moderately thick otherwise they will not puff.
16. Next after making 5 to 6, heat the oil on a medium high flame. Do not leave them without frying for long.
17. While it heats, continue to roll up the rest as well.
18. Check if it is hot by dropping a small portion of dough.
19. If the oil is hot enough for frying, it will rise immediately. But it should not brown quickly.
Frying poori in oil
20. Drop the puri gently. If you have used flour, do dust off the excess flour before frying. As soon as it is added to the pan, it sinks completely.
21. Do not disturb until the poori comes up at least half way to the surface.
22. Then quickly but gently keep pressing the poori down to the oil.
23. Poori will puff.
24. Next flip the poori and fry until crisp and golden. Remove to a kitchen tissue. To fry the rest of them as well, make sure the oil is hot enough.
Serve poori with curry, chutney or sagu.
Riley says
Fantastic recipe very easy and very well instructed. Could have not been simpler…Thank you Swasthi for sharing such a delicious puri recipe…feel the ultimate Puri Hero in the house at the moment haha.. bless you xx
swasthi says
Hi Riley
You are welcome. Thanks a ton for the wishes. Glad to know you became a Puri hero at home.
🙂
Thanmaya says
This is very helpful and in detailed procedure. Thankyou swathi. God bless you..
swasthi says
Welcome Thanmaya
Thank you so much for the wishes.
jhansi says
very good explanation. your tips very helpful
swasthi says
Thank you
akashocd says
thank you for telling how to make perfect puri
Neha says
Hi Swasthi
Thank you very much for the detailed instructions. I made your puri and gajar ka halwa. Tried the puri first time and both turned out so well. This weekend i will be making your tandoori chicken. Keep sharing..
swasthi says
Welcome Neha
Thanks for your time to comment back on the recipes you try. Happy they turned out good. Yes do try tandoori chicken and enjoy it.
🙂
Shalu says
Made your puri and curry today both turned out very good. Thank you
swasthi says
Welcome Shalu
Thanks for trying
Preeti says
Thanks dear Swasthi for the recipe. i made puri for the first time and they turned out good.
swasthi says
Welcome Preeti,
Thanks for trying. I replied your other comments too on the baby food.