Pani Poori

I made this with my mom-in-law when I had gone for vacation to India the year before last. It turned out pretty good :) When u have somebody to cook with you, cooking gets more interesting and fun.

I had these pics with me since then. I thought I'd make it myself coming back to Dubai, but I never got to it. So here I am posting the recipe with the old pics :)

The pooris... they turned out really good. Crispy, nice :)

For making the poori you'll need:

• 1 cup semolina (rava or sooji)
• 1 tbsp all purpose flour
• a pinch of salt
• warm water for mixing
• oil

How to make:

• Mix semolina and salt. Then add some warm water.. just enough water to make it a bit grainy...not a paste. So that wud be just 3-4 tbsp of warm water.
• Now mix in the all purpose flour to make into a tight dough. Maida is added to absorb the moisture. If the dough is soft add a little more maida to tighten it.
• Kneed the dough for some 5 minutes. Add a few drops of oil and kneed again.
• Then let it rest for 15-20 minutes.

• After you have let it rest for 20 minutes, roll the dough very thin to make round pooris. The thinner the better. My mom-in-law did this part, rolling it real thin. If its thin you'll get delicate crispy balls on frying and is much tastier than thick ones.
• Use round cutter to get nice shapes... or u could use cap of bottle or anything small and round.
• Fry them in a deep bottom vessel with hot oil.
• Thats it. Quite easy... :)

Here is the pani.
What I did was mix the following:

• 1.5 cup water
• 3/4 cup of tamarind pulp (made this by soaking tamarind in water and sqeezing all the pulp out)
• salt to taste
• pepper powder 
• chilli powder

Make  paste with the below ingredients and add to the pani

• 1 or 2 green chillies
• a few coriander leaves
• a few mint leaves
• Tamarind(if needed)

What you have to note here is check before adding chilli powder and pepper... add if u really need it or it'd be a bit tooo spicy to ur taste. Same thing with salt and tamarind... check taste as u mix ingredients into the pani. Add chat masala if u have.. 

For the stuffing we made some fried potato cubes, some chole and finely chopped onions. Here you can add more items like a paste of chilli+yogurt+tamarind.. or chopped tomatoes.. whatever u want! :)

Its just sooooo yummy and filling!! :)