Rice and Breads

Fried Bread or Punjabi Bhaturas

INGREDIENTS 

  • 1 cup / 150 gms all purpose flour / maida
  • ¼ cup / 75 gms curd (room temp)
  • ¼ cup / 40 gms water
  • 1 tsp sugar
  • ½ tsp salt
  • ½ tsp baking powder
  • ¼ tsp baking soda
  • 1 tbsp semolina
  • 5 tbsp ghee / clarified butter
  • 6 gms / 2 tsp milk powder

METHOD

  • Add all the ingredients in a bowl.
  • Combine well to form a dough
  • Knead and punch the dough well for at least 5 minutes
  • Poke your dough and sprinkle a little water and again knead it
  • Repeat the above step
  • Further, grease the dough with oil.
  • Over with moist cloth and rest for at least 2 hours.
  • Further, roll and get to a long shape. Pinch the dough into medium sized balls.
  • Then make balls between your palms (make sure there are no cracks)
  • Rest it covered for another 5 minutes.
  • Finally, roll the dough evenly into circles using a rolling pin. Roll neither too thin nor thick. Firstly, heat oil in a deep frying pan or kadai. When the oil is sufficiently hot, add one bhatura.
  • And, press with the spoon to puff up. Also, once they begin to puff, splash oil over the bhatura till they puff completely.
  • Flip over and fry the bhatura till golden brown all over.
  • Then drain the bhatura into tissue paper to remove excess oil.
  • Fry all bhatura same way.
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