Winter special recipe: Spinach puri
By: Team Ifairer | Posted: 03-01-2024
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Palak puri is made by mixing wheat flour with pureed spinach and
other spices. It is best enjoyed hot with mango chutney and chili
pickle. Spinach puri served with potato curry makes a good lunchbox
recipe.
Ingredients
2 cups wheat flour, 1/2 kg fresh
spinach (washed), 2-3 tsp clarified butter or ghee,1 tsp ginger paste,1
tsp green chili paste,1 tsp cumin seed (crushed),1/2 cup plain curd,
Salt to taste, Oil for deep frying.
How to make
Blanch
the spinach leaves in boiling water. Remove the spinach leaves from the
water and make it into a paste. Mix the palak paste with wheat flour and
add crushed cumin seeds, plain curd, ghee, ginger- green chilli paste
and salt.
Make a soft smooth dough by mixing all the ingredients
and some water as per requirement. Make sure that the dough is firm and
tight & not too watery. Otherwise it will be difficult to roll out
puris.
Keep the dough covered for about 10 minutes with a wet
muslin cloth. Knead the dough again for a minute and then divide the
dough into equal sized lemon balls and roll them each in a flat round
disc of 5 inch diameter. Heat the oil in a wok or kadai and fry each of
the puris on both sides till golden and crisp.
Serve hot palak puri with curd, chilli pickle or potato sabji.
Total Time: 20 mins.