Puris

Name: Puris
Ingredients: Sunflower or vegetable oil to deep-fry; 2 tbsp sunflower oil for the dough; ½ tsp chilli powder (optional); 3 mugs chapatti flour (I prefer a mixture of two-thirds white and one-third brown); ½ tsp salt; Warm water; 2 tbsp finely chopped coriander leaves (optional); Extra flour for dusting while rolling; ½ tsp turmeric (optional)

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Settler's Cookbook

By Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

Published 2009

About

Ingredients

3 mugs chapatti flour (I prefer a mixture of two-thirds white and one-third brown)
½ tsp salt
Extra flour

Main course
Vegan

Method

You can make plain puris and eat them with curries or with jam for breakfast. Or you can make them spiced up with the last three ingredients and eat them with plain yoghourt or raitha.
For the spicy version add the turmeric, salt, chilli and coriander to the flour. For plain puris add only salt.
Mix oil into the flour and then add wa