Palak Puri / Spinach Puri

Palak Puri / Spinach Puri



Palak Puri is referred as deep fried indian bread prepared using spinach/palak. People usually consider puri to be unhealthy as it is deep fried and contains lots of fat but palak puri is an healthier version of puri.

Though it contains fat, but because of palak it is healthier. Palak has a high nutritional value and is extremely rich in antioxidants. It is a rich source of vitamins, iron, calcium etc.

Ingredients:

• 2 cups wheat flour
• 1 bunch of palak
• 3 tea spoon rice flour
• 1 tea spoon besan
• 1 tea spoon cumin seeds/jeera
• 3-4 green chillies
• 1-2 tea spoon sugar
• salt to taste
• oil for deep frying

Method:

Wash and chop palak. Grind palak, green chillies, cumin seeds, sugar and salt together in a blender and turn it into a fine paste.

Take all the flours together in a large plate and add palak paste and one tea spoon oil, mix all of it together to make a soft dough, add water only if needed.

Divide the dough into lemon sized balls and roll each of them by dusting some flour or with oil into small puris with a rolling pin.

Heat oil in a kadai. To check if the oil is hot enough, drop a piece of the dough to the oil and if it goes to the base and rises immediately on the surface of the oil and starts browning, then the oil is of the right temperature to fry the puris.

Fry all the puris one by one from both the sides until they turn slightly brown in colour.

Serve hot with chutney or aloo subji