recipe of medu vada

Prep time: 10 minutes

Cook time: 15 minutes

Soaking time: 3 hours

Total time: 3:25 hours

Medu Vada

Medu vada is special traditional south Indian dish. Whenever, I eat medu vada at that time I just think how to cook medu vada????? What are the ingredients used for making medu vada???? But now, I got the clear idea about medu vada and its ingredients. It’s really easy to cook at home. It’s so simple and quick dish.

When I was studied on 10^th standard at that time I just love to eat street food. Every day, after completion of our tuition classes we all were ready to go for snacks. One day, birthday of my friend and she just want to eat south Indian dish because she loves it so much. She told us that, “Today, I want to give my birthday party with south Indian food”. We were ready to enjoy party with south Indian food and cheer up for birthday girl.

So many times I tasted and enjoyed Idli, Dhosa, Uttapam but never tried for medu vada with my family. So, I just told her, “Today, I want to eat medu vada” because I really want to get real taste of it. At that time, I was too much little for identifying real ingredients used in it. So, I just become dam crazy for making medu vada at my home because of its good taste. In short, it was 1^st time when I ate medu vada with my friends. After completion of birth day party, I reached at my home and told to my mom and dad that “today I ate medu vada, its really nice taste and I want to learn how to cook it at home and which types of ingredients used in it.”

After long time, one day I went at market with my big brother.  We both want to eat something. Suddenly, my brother told me, “Let’s eat idly”. I told him, “Oh yes!!!!! But, I want to eat medu vada”. On that day, I was realizing that urad dal is the main ingredients for medu vada.  I just met to shop keeper and ask him, “Is there urad dal used in medu vada????” He replied me yes.

I was so happy on that day and also ready to do medu vada at my home. On last Sunday, I just think what to do for dinner? Suddenly, medu vada comes into my mind. I just stand up and goes to the kitchen for find out urad dal.

It was my first experience to cook medu vada at my home. I learn one thing that Its most important to put more focus on consistency of better of urad dal.  We need thick better to make a round shape of medu vada. Trust me, it’s so simple and easy recipe to cook medu vada. It’s also cook within 30 minutes.  For crunchy flavor of medu vada, you can add rice flour in the better of urad dal. It gives delicious crunchiness to medu vada. I hope you can also enjoy this traditional south Indian dish medu vada with coconut chutney and sambhar and impress your family members. 

Ingredients:

1. 1/2 cup urad dal (white urad dal)

2. 1 glass of water

3. Salt taste wise

4. 3 - 4 green chilies

5. 1/2 inch ginger

6. 1/2 teaspoon black paper powder

7. 1 teaspoon red chili powder

8. 1 teaspoon coriander powder

9. 1/2 teaspoon asafoetida

10. Oil for deep fry

Recipe:

1. Wash urad dal and soak it into water for 3 - 4 hours.

Wash & soak Urad dal

2. Now, Take a mixer bowl, Add coriander leaves, green chilies and ginger in it and make smooth pest of its.

3. Drain excess water from urad dal.

make pest of urad dal

4. Take a mixer bowl, add urad dal green chili pest, salt, red chili powder, coriander powder, asafoetida powder in it and make a thick pest of its. (Note: You can add rice flour for making thick better, if necessary.)

Mix all ingredients for making pest

Pest of urad dal for medu vada

5. Heat oil in a thick pan.

6. Now, apply water on your hand and take 1 tbsp mixture of urad dal.

mixture of medu vada

7. Give it round shape and make a hole with the help of thumb in the center of it.

make hole by using thumb

8. Now, fry medu vada in heat oil on medium flame till it become golden brown.

Fry medu vada in heat oil

9. Now, transfer it to a paper napkin and serve hot hot medu vada with coconut chutney and sambhar.

Tip: You can sprinkle chat masala on medu vada. So, you can eat medu vada without sambhar.

recipe of medu vada
Last Reviewed by Yogesh Sonani
Rating: 4.5

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recipe of chili chana fry by mona patel

Prep time: 5 minutes
Cook time: 10 minutes
Total time: 15 minutes

chili chana fry

Chili chana fry is a very spicy and delicious starter. Chili chana fry starter is very easy and quick dish. You can also make it at your home by using simple ingredients. At my home, at least 2 times in a week i have to make it because every one like it so much. You can also use fry chana as a tea time snack.

Chopped vegetables

Green pest

Ingredients:

1. 1 cup boiled kabuli chana

2. 2 tbsp corn flour

3. 1 tbsp maida (Plain flour)

4. 1 tbsp tomato ketchup

5. 2 teaspoon soya sauce

6. 2 teaspoon green pest (Ginger, Garlic, and Green chili)

7. 2 teaspoon sugar

8. 1 teaspoon red chili powder (optional)

9. 1/2 teaspoon black pepper powder

10. 1 onion (slice cut)

11. 1 capsicum (chopped)

12. pinch ajinomoto

13. Salt (Taste wise)

14. Oil (for deep fry)

15. 1/2 cup Water

Recipe for fry chana: (Read it more with image - Click here)

1. Kabuli chana soak into water for 4 - 5 hrs.

2. Now, Boiled kabuli chana by adding salt.
3. Take a bowl, add cornflour, plain flour, salt, red chili powder, coriander powder, garam masala and little water in it. Mix it properly and make a thick better of it. 

4. Add boiled kabuli chana in a thick better of cornflour and plain flour and mix it properly.
5. Heat oil in a pan. Add one by one kabuli chana in it and fry it till it become light brown color.
6. Transfer it to a plate and sprinkle chat masala on it.

Recipe for chili chana fry: 

1. Heat 1 tbsp oil in a thick pan, add Green pest in it and saute it for few seconds.

green pest in heat oil

2. Add onion slice in it and saute it for 1 minute.

3. Add chopped capsicum, pinch ajinomote and salt in it and saute it for 3 minutes.

vegetables saute with green pest

add masala

4. Add red chili powder, sugar, soya sauce and tomato ketchup in it.

Add Tomato sauce

Add Soya sauce

5. Mix it properly and saute it for 2 minutes.

6. Now, add fried chana in it, mix it properly and saute it for 2 minutes.

Add fried chana

7. Delicious, crispy and spicy chili chana fry starter is ready to serve.

Tip: Granish with grated cheese or coriander leaves or fried dry fruits or slice of onions and capsicum.

recipe of chili chana fry by mona patel
Last Reviewed by MPatel
Rating: 4.5

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recipe of cheese veg sandwich

Prep time: 5 minutes
Cook time: 10 minutes
Total time: 15 minutes

 

cheese veg sandwich

Cheese veg sandwich is very healthy snack. Here, i used tomatoes, onions, potatoes, cucumber and beetroot. You can use any kind of vegetables like carrot, cucumber, tomato, potato, onions, beetroot, cabbage, capsicum etc. 

Ingredients:

1. 1 packet of bread

2. 1 cup grated cheese

3. 1 cup green chutney

4. 2 tomatos (slice cut)

5. 2 onions (slice cut)

6. 1 cucumber (slice cut)

7. 1 beetroot (slice cut)

8. 2 boiled potatoes (remove skin and slice cut it)

9. 1 tbsp butter

10. 1 tspn black pepper powder

11. 1 tbsp chat masala

12. 1 cup tomato ketchup

Recipe:

1. Take a slice of bread, apply butter on one side of bread. 

2. Now, apply green chutney on it.

3. Heat non stick pan by applying butter on it.

4. Put bread on pan on low flame.

5. Now, arrange all vegetables on bread.

Cheese veg sandwich ready to back

6. Now, sprinkle chat masala and black pepper powder on it. 

7. Sprinkle grated cheese on it and cover it by another slice of bread. 

8. Bake sandwich both sides by applying butter on it.

9. Serve hot hot cheese veg sandwich with tomato ketchup.

recipe of cheese veg sandwich
Last Reviewed by MPatel
Rating: 4.5

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recipe of aloo samosa

Prep time: 20 minutes
Cook time: 20 minutes
Total time: 40 minutes

Aloo samosa

Aloo samosa is very delicious and yummy snack. You can serve aloo samosa at tea time also. Hot hot aloo samosa serve with tomato ketchup or green chutney. Here, Green peas is optional. Crispy chatpata aloo samosa is become favorite dish for younger. Now - a - days, samosa chaat is also become famous. 

Ingredients for stuffing:

1. 5 - 6 boiled potatos

2. 1/2 cup boiled green peas

3. 3 - 4 green chilies chopped

4. 1 teaspoon garam masala

5. 1 teaspoon coriander powder

6. 1 teaspoon lemon juice

7. 1/2 teaspoon black pepper powder

8. 1 teaspoon red chili powder (optional)

9. Salt (taste wise)

10. 1 tbsp coriander leaves finely chopped

11. 4 - 5 curry leaves

12. 2 tbsp oil

Ingredients for Dough:

1. 1 cup maida (plain flour)

2. Salt (taste wise)

3. 2 tbsp warm oil

4. 1 glass of Water

Recipe for Dough:

1. Take a thick bowl, add maida, salt,  warm oil in it. Mix it properly.

2. Now, add little little water in it and make hard dough.

3. Cover the dough with the help of muslin cloth and put aside for 10 - 15 minutes.

Recipe for stuffing:

1. Remove the skin of potatos, half mash potatos and green peas by using your hand and mix it properly.

2. Now, add garam masala, coriander powder, black pepper powder, red chili powder, lemon juice and salt in mash potatoes. 

3. Again mix it properly.

4. Now, take a non stick pan, heat 2 tbsp oil in it. 

5. Add curry leaves and chopped green chilies in it and saute it for few seconds.

6. Now, add mash potatoes stuffing in it and mix it properly on low flame. Saute it for few minutes.

5. Now, transfer it to a plate and keep a side for chill it.

Recipe for Aloo samosa:

1. Take a dough and mash it properly till it become semi soft.

2. Divide the dough into 10 - 15 equal portion.

3. Take a portion and roll out small circle of 6" to 7" diameters from it. 

4. Cut a circle into equal 2 parts.

5. Now, take a help of water for join the edges of each semi circle and give a corn shape to it.

6. Now, add 1 - 2 tsp of aloo stuffing in it and seal remaining edge by applying water.

7. Repeat the same procedure for the remaining dough.

8. Now, heat oil in a thick pan, and add cones in it and fry it on low flame till it become light pink then transfer it on a medium flame and fry it for 4 - 5 minutes or it become light brown on both the sides.

9. Transfer it to a butter pepper on a plate and ready to serve with tomato ketchup or grape chutney.

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Last Reviewed by MyP
Rating: 4.5

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recipe of cheesy spinach kabab

Prep time: 10 minutes
Cook time: 20 minutes
Total time: 30 minutes

Cheesy spinach kabab

Cheesy spinach kabab looks delicious. Cheesy spinach kabab is very healthy dish with full of calcium. You can serve it with tomato ketch up. Cheesy spinach kabab becomes spicy because of green chilies used in it you can adjust green chili as per your taste. You can serve it as a starter to your friends at  get to gather time or at tea time.

Ingredients:

1. 1 bunch of spinach

2. 1 cup chana dal

3. 2 Onion chopped

4. 1 tbsp green pest (green chilies, ginger, garlic)

5. 1 cup breadcrumbs

6. 1 tbsp coriander leaves

7. Salt (taste wise)

8. 1 teaspoon chat masala

9. 1 teaspoon garam masala

10. 1 teaspoon red chili powder

11. 1 teaspoon coriander powder

12. Oil (for deep fry)

13. 1 cube grated cheese

Recipe:

1. Soak chana dal into water for 2 - 3 hours.

2. Wash spinach and finely chopped it.

3. Heat 3 teaspoon oil in a pan, add chopped spinach in it and saute it for 4 - 5 minutes.

4. Take a mixer bowl, drain excess water from chana dal and add it to a mixer bowl.

5. Add red chili powder, coriander powder, garam masala and salt in it. Now, blend it properly. 

6. Now, Transfer chana daal pest to the plate.

7. Add spinach, chopped onions and coriander leaves in it and mix it properly.

8. For proper binding add bread crumbs in it or you can also roll out kabab to the bread crumbs.

9. Heat oil, fry spinach kabab in it till it become light pink.

10. Now, transfer it to kitchen paper and sprinkle chat masala on it.

11. Serve spinach kabab with tomato ketchup. Garnish spinach kabab with grated cheese.

Tip: You can also serve cheesy spinach kabab with green chutney.

recipe of cheesy spinach kabab by mona patel
Last Reviewed by Mona Y Patel
Rating: 4.5

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recipe of banana burfi

Prep time: 10 minutes

Cook time: 30 minutes

Total time: 40 minutes

Banana burfi

Banana burfi is a sweet dish. This Rakhi festival is celebrate with banana burfi and share it with your friends and family. Try to impress them and get so many good blesses from them. I have decided to celebrate this rakhi festival with banana burfi. Its really so interesting. I am eagerly waiting for rakhi festival because i want to give big surprise with banana burfi to my big brother. Oh yes, you can also store it in refrigerator for a week. Trust me, banana burfi is so simple and easy to cook same as mango burfi. Also, all ingredients used in this recipe is easily available at market. So, what you think right now???????? Stand up and be ready for do this banana burfi at your home and impress your family members. Oh yes, always remember that banana is a full source of calcium and nutritious. So, everyday eat at least one banana is very good for human body. 

Ingredients:

1. 5 - 6 ripe banana

2. 500 ml milk

3. 4 tbsp sugar

4. 2 tbsp ghee

5. 1/2 teaspoon cardamom powder

6. 10 - 12 chopped almond

7. 10 - 12 chopped cashew nuts

8. 10 - 12 kismis

Recipe:

1. Soak almonds into water for 2 - 3 hours. After that, Remove skin of its and chopped it.

2. Take a non stick pan, add milk and sugar in it stir it continuously on medium flame.

3. Remove skin of ripe banana and mash it properly.

4. Now, add mash banana to the milk and stir it continuously on medium flame till it become semi-thick.

5. Now, add ghee in it and stir it continuously on low flame till it become light pink. 

6. Add cardamom powder in it and mix it properly till it remove the pan. 

7. Turn off the stove. Take a plate, grease it by applying ghee and transfer banana burfi to plate.

8. Garnish it with chopped dry fruits and Put it aside for 30 minutes.

9. Now, cut it into proper shape (as per your choice).

Tips: 

1. You can use any kind of dry-fruits in it. 

2. You can adjust sugar as per your taste.

recipe of banana burfi by mona patel
Last Reviewed by Yogesh Patel
Rating: 4.5

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recipe of kashmiri dum aloo

Prep time: 10 minutes
Cook time:  30 minutes
Total time: 40 minutes

Kashmiri dum aloo

kashmiri dum aloo is spicy flavored sabzi. Kashmiri dum aloo looks rich and delicious with dryfruits used in it. Kashmiri dum aloo gives delicious flavor. Its a complete mouthwatering sabzi. You can also do it at your home trust me its so simple and easy dish. Kashmiri dum aloo is very fabulous dish at so many restaurant in India. Its necessary to choose small potatoes in it.

Ingredients:

1. 12 - 15 small size potatoes

2. 2 cup curd (dahi)

3. 4 - 5 kashmiri red chilies (soak in water for 15 - 20 minutes)

4. 2 Onions chopped

5. 2 - 3 green chilies chopped

6. 1/2 inch Ginger chopped

7. 6 - 7 garlic chopped

8. 1/2 teaspoon cardamom powder

9. 1/2 teaspoon dry ginger powder (soonth)

10. 1 teaspoon cumin powder

11. 1 teaspoon garam masala

12. pinch of clove powder

13. pinch of asafoetida powder

14. pinch of turmeric powder

15. Oil (for deep fry)

16. Salt (taste wise)

17. 1 glass of water

18. 1 tbsp chopped coriander leaves

19. 10 - 12 fried cashew nuts

Recipe:

1. Take potatoes, peeled and prick them and soak them into salted water for 15 - 20 minutes

2. Now, take a mixer bowl, add onions, garlic, ginger, green chilies, kashmiri red chilies in it and blend it till become smooth pest. Transfer it to a bowl.

3. Now, Drain the excess water and dry the potatoes properly.

4. Heat oil in a pan, fry potatoes on medium flame till it become golden brown.

5. Transfer it to a kitchen paper and put it asides.

6. Now, heat 2 tbsp oil in a pan, add asafoetida powder and onion pest in it and saute it for few seconds.

7. Now, add curd (dahi) in it, mix it properly.

8. Add cumin powder, clove powder, turmeric powder, salt, garam masala, cardamom powder and dry ginger(soonth) powder in it. Mix it properly and saute it for 1 minute.

9. Add 1 cup of water in it and mix it properly. Now, cook it for 5 minutes.

10. Add fried potatoes in it, mix it and cook it till absorb gravy and oil come to the surface.

11. Now, add chopped coriander in it and mix it properly. Now, its ready to serve.

12. Garnish it with fried cashew nuts and coriander leaves.

Tip: you can use tomato puree instead of curd (dahi) for make the gravy of kashmiri dum aloo.

recipe of kashmiri dum aloo
Last Reviewed by Yogesh Patel
Rating: 4.5

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recipe of badam milk

Prep time: 5 minutes
Cook time: 10 minutes
Total time: 15 minutes

Badam milk

Badam milk or almond milk is very tasty and healthy milk specially for children. You can also add kesar (saffron) in it. So, it become kesar badam milk or saffron almond milk. Badam milk is very delicious and yummy flavored. You can serve badam milk at the morning or at teatime. 

Ingredients:

1. 15 - 20 almond (badam)

2. 500 ml milk

3. 2 tbsp sugar

4. pinch cardamom powder

5. Saffron (as per your choice)

Recipe:

1. Soak almond (badam) into water for 2 - 3  hours. After 2 - 3 hours, remove the skin of almonds.

2. Take a mixer bowl, add almond in it and make a pest of it.

3. Take a pan and put it on low flame, add milk and sugar in it, mix it properly.

4. Now, add almond pest to the milk and mix it properly on low flame.

5. Now, add saffron and cardamom powder in it and mix it. 

6. Badam milk is ready to serve. Garnish with saffron, almond and pinch of cardamom powder.

Tip: You can also add chocolate syrup in it. So, it become choco badam milk. Its too much yummy and children also like it so much.

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Last Reviewed by Mona Patel
Rating: 4.5

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recipe of mango burfi

Prep time: 10 minutes
Cook time: 30 minute
Total time: 40 minutes
Calories: 250

Mango burfi with varakh

Mango burfi with dry fruits

Mango burfi is really very nice sweet dish. Mango burfi gives delicious flavor and taste of ripe mango. You can also do it at your home. Mango burfi recipe is very easy. I don't like sweet dishes but i really like mango burfi because of mango's flavor and taste. 

Yesterday i was do it at my home and trust me its really very yummy. My mom and dad like it so much. Here, you can change sugar quantity as per your taste. Oh yes, you can store it in a refrigerator for a week.

Ingredients:

1. 500 gms juice of ripe mango

2. 200 gms grated sugarless pulp from milk (Molo mavo)

3. 2 cup sugar

4. 10 - 12 almond chopped

5. 10 - 12 cashewnuts chopped

6. 1 tbsp ghee

Recipe:

1. Take a non - stick pan, add mango juice and sugar in it and stir it continuously on medium flame.

2. When mango juice become semi thick then add sugar less pulp (molo mavo) in it and stir it continuously on low flame.

3. When its become thick and seperate from the pan then turn off the stove.

4. Take a plate, grease it by using ghee and transfer the mango burfi mixer to plate.

5. Spread it over the plate and sprinkle chopped dryfuits on it and put it aside for 30 minutes.

6. Now, cut it into diamond shape by using cutter.

7. Put it in a refrigerator for chill it. 

8. Now, its ready to serve and impress your guest.

Tips: 

1. You can also sprinkle dry coconut powder on it.

2. You can also apply silvar varakh on it.

3. You can also add dry coconut powder in it.

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Last Reviewed by Sonia Singh
Rating: 4

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recipe of matar paneer ki sabzi

Prep time: 15 minutes
Cook time: 30 minutes
Total time: 45 minutes

Matar paneer ki sabzi

Matar paneer ki sabzi is very spicy. You can serve it with paratha, puri, naan, roti (chapati). I just used fried paneer in it. You can used dry green peas or fresh green peas in it. If you want to use dry green peas then soak it into water for 4 - 5 hour before use it in sabzi and boil it with salt. If you want to use fresh green peas then just wash it and boil it with adding salt.

Ingredients:

1. 1 cup green peas

2. 100 gms paneer

3. 2 tomatos 

4. 2 onions

5. 1 tbsp green pest (green chilies, garlic and ginger)

6. 1 teaspoon cumin seeds

7. 2 tbsp oil

8. 1 tbsp ghee

9. 1 teaspoon garam masala

10. 1 teaspoon punjabi masala

11. 2 teaspoon red chili powder

12. 1 teaspoon coriander powder

13. pinch turmeric powder

14. Salt (taste wise)

15. Oil (for deep fry paneer cubes)

16. 1 cup cold water

17. 1 tbsp chopped coriander leaves

18. pinch kasuri methi powder

Recipe:

1. Wash green peas and half cook it by adding salt.

2. Wash tomatos and chopped it and blend it till become smooth puree.

3. Now, chopped onions into the slices.

4. Heat oil in a thick pan, and chopped paneer into small sized cubes. 

5. Fry paneer into hot oil till become light pink and transfer it to cold water and soak in it for 3 - 4 minutes then transfer it to plate.

6. In the remaining hot oil, fry onion till it become light brown and then transfer it to mixer bowl and blend it till become smooth puree.

7. Now, take a non stick pan, add 2 tbsp oil and 1 tbsp ghee in it. Now, add cumin seeds in it and saute it for few seconds. 

8. Add green pest in it and saute it for 1 minutes. Now, add tomato puree in it and saute it till oil seperate from it.

9. Now, add onion puree in it mix it properly and add garam masala, red chili powder, turmeric powder, salt, punjabi masala, coriander powder and kasuri methi in it. Mix it properly and cook it for 5 -  8 minutes.

10. Now, add boiled green peas in it and mix it properly then cover the pan and cook it on medium flame for 5 minutes.

11. Now, add paneer cubes and coriander leaves in it and mix it properly and again cook it for 2 - 3 minutes.

12. Now, serve hot hot matar paneer sabzi in a bowl, Garnish with fresh cream and coriander leaves.

Tip: You can also garnish it with fried cashew nuts and kismis. It gives rich look to your matar paneer sabji. 

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Rating: 4.5

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recipe of spinach puri

Prep time: 10 minutes
Cook time: 25 minutes
Total time: 35 minutes

Spinach puri with aloo matar sabji

Spinach puri is very healthy puri full of calcium involved in it. Also, spinach has a delicious natural color. Green color is awesome. Its look yummy. Spinach puri is spicy because of garlic pest used in it. You can serve spinach puri with aloo matar sabji or any other sabji. Its a heavy dish or we can say complete meal with rice, daal at lunch time. 

Ingredients:

1. 1/2 bunch spinach

2. 2 cup wheat flour

3. 6 - 7 Garlic 

4. 2 teaspoon red chili powder

5. 1 teaspoon coriander powder

6. pinch asafetida powder (Hing)

7. Salt (taste wise)

8. 1 glass of water

9. Oil (for deep fry)

Recipe:

1. Take a bunch of spinach, wash and chopped it. 

2. Take a mixer bowl, add garlic, red chili powder and chopped spinach in it. Blend it properly till become smooth puree.

3. Now take another bowl, add wheat flour, salt and asafetida powder (hing) in it. Mix it properly.

4. Add 1 - 2 teaspoon oil in it and add spinach - garlic puree in it and make a semi hard dough of it. (Note: If there it a need of water then just sprinkle it.)

5. Now, divide dough into small small portion and make medium semi - thick round from it.

6. Now, heat oil in a thick pan, add puri in it and fry it both sides till it become light pink color.

7. Transfer it to a kitchen paper and serve hot hot puri with any kind of spicy sabji.

Tip:

1. You can also add green chili instead of red chili powder in a spinach puree.

2. You can also add pinch turmeric powder in wheat flour.

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