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Bedmi Puri

Bedmi puri.
A very famous breakfast dish of North India.
Crispy spicy delicious puri usually served with hing jeera aloo sabji or curry. But these hot fluffy puri can be also serve with tea or only pickle. Puri taste spicy and absolutely delicious so you don’t need anything with it. Not only breakfast but you can also enjoy it as a teatime snack.
Its very easy to make. If you have soaked dal or lentil, you can make it in a jiffy. Just mix everything and make a dough and fry. Simple isn’t it 😊

You can get some more kachori recipes on this blog.

1. Hing kachori with potato curry

2. Biscuit roti or kachori

3. Instant kachori

4. Radhaballavi with dum aloo or spicy potato

Monday again and this week’s 204 #Foodiemonday bloghop theme is #NashtaTime suggested by Priya Iyer who blog at The world through my eyes.
Visit her space for many delicious traditional recipes. I have already tried many of her recipes.

If you don’t have udad dal or you don’t like then you can also make it with moong dal or yellow lentil. Follow the same process. Puri also remain crispy when cool so its perfect for your tiffin or lunch box. Make aloo or potato curry to serve with puri but you can also serve it with any pickle or achar or serve as a snack with tea or coffee. This Kachori can be also made with stuffing. Stuffing with udad dal can be made and stuff in whole wheat flour dough like this hinger kochuri.

Recipe

Dhuli udad dal or skinned black lentil – 1/2 cup

Ginger – 1 inch piece

Green chilli – 2 – 3 or to taste

Souf or fennel seeds – 2 teaspoon

Whole wheat flour or atta – 2 cup

Salt to taste

Hing or asafoetida – 1/4 teaspoon

Cumin powder – 1 teaspoon

Coriander powder – 1/2 teaspoon

Suji or semolina – 5 tablespoon

Oil – 3 tablespoon + 1 teaspoon

Water – 3-4 tablespoon or as require

Oil for deep fry

Method

1. Rinse and soak the udad dal or skinned black lentil in sufficient water overnight.

2. Next day drain the water and rinse again.

3. Grind ginger, green chilli and fennel seeds or sounf. Now add rinsed and drained black lentil in the grinder. Grind with the help of little water and make a coarse paste. Don’t make too smooth.

4. Add the lentil mixture to the atta.
Add salt, hing, 3 tablespoon oil, cumin powder and coriander powder.

5. Mix well. Add very little water to make a smooth but stiff dough. Dal paste has water so add water carefully.

6. Smear the dough with 1 teaspoon Oil and cover. Keep aside for 20 – 30 minutes.

7. Now Knead the dough again. Make small balls.

8. Roll with a rolling pin with the help of little oil. Don’t make too thin like puri. Roll into slightly thick puri.

9. Heat sufficient oil to deep fry the puri. When oil heated slide rolled puri in oil. Press the puri gently with a slotted spatula.

10. When it fluff up and becomes golden brown, flip and fry the other side.

11. Remove from oil and place on paper towel. Fry all the puri in this method.

12. Serve hot with aloo or potato curry. Get the recipe of potato curry here.

Notes
1. Moong dal or yellow lentil can be used instead of black lentil or udad dal.
2. If you like your puri more hot, you can add 1/2 or 1 teaspoon red chilli powder in the dough or use more green chilli.

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Hinger Kochuri Or Hing / Asafoetida Kachori With Potato Curry

Hinger kochuri or hing/Asafoetida kachori with potato curry.
A famous breakfast dish of Bengal. Hing or asafoetida flavoured split black gram or udad dal stuffed deep fried flat bread.
Usually served with chholar dal or chana dal aloor dom or potato curry. Everyone love the strong aroma of hing or asafoetida in the stuffing. For me its a perfect Sunday breakfast.

You can get some more fried breakfast recipes here. Click on the name below to get the recipe.

Biscuit roti

Instant kachori

Radhaballvi and dum aloo

Luchi dum aloo

Sending this post to 158 #Foodiemonday bloghop #IndianFlatBread theme.
Sharing an easy way to make this delicious aromatic savoury snack. I am sharing my mother’s recipe today. To retain the strong aroma of hing or asafoetida I have also added little hing in the dough as I heard from my maa. She always followed such small tricks in her cooking.

In Bengal you can get this delicious kachori in every roadside food stall.
I have served it with a potato curry. No not dum aloo its a delicious spicy no onion garlic potato gravy made with crumbled boiled potato. You can serve it with any bread, luchi or puri or paratha.

You can make the dough with half refined flour and half whole wheat flour. But for taste better to make it with maida or refined flour.

Recipe

For Stuffing

Split black gram or udad dal – 1/2 cup

Hing or asafoetida – 1 teaspoon

Fennel seeds or saunf – 1 teaspoon

Mustard oil – 2 teaspoon

Salt to taste

Sugar – 1/2 teaspoon

Cumin powder – 1/2 teaspoon

ginger – 1 inch piece, grated

Green chilli – 1-2

For the dough

Maida or refined flour – 1 cup

Salt – 1/4 teaspoon

Hing or asafoetida – 1/4 teaspoon

Oil – 2 tablespoon

Water – 1/3 cup or as require

Oil for deep frying

For potato curry

Potato – 4 large, boiled

Tomato – 3, chopped

Green chilli – 2 – 3

Ginger – 1 inch piece

Cumin seeds – 1 teaspoon

Hing or asafoetida – 1/2 teaspoon

Cumin powder – 1 teaspoon

Coriander powder – 1 teaspoon

Turmeric powder – 1/4 teaspoon

Kashmiri red chilli powder – 2 teaspoon

Garam masala powder – 1/2 teaspoon

Method

1. In a large bowl mix refined flour or maida, salt and oil. Mix well.

2. Now add 1/4 teaspoon hing and add water slowly. Don’t mix all the water in one go.

3. Knead well. Make a smooth dough. Cover and keep aside for 30 minutes.

4. Soak fennel seeds or saunf in little water for easy grinding.

5. Drain the water from soaked split black gram. Wash again and drain the water.

6. Mix grated ginger, green chilli and soaked fennel seeds.

7. Add very little water if require. Grind altogether.

8. Don’t make too smooth. Mixture should be lightly coarse. But if it becomes smooth don’t worry. It will also fine.

9. Heat mustard oil in a nonstick pan.
Add hing or asafoetida.

10. Now add the ground mixture.
Add salt, sugar and cumin powder. Mix well.

11. Fry the mixture till it comes together and becomes like a dough. And raw smell goes away. You can smell the nice aroma.

12. Taste and adjust salt. If the strong aroma of hing or asafoetida is missing add little more hing. And mix well. Remove from heat.

13. If you want your stuffing more spicy, then you can add 1 teaspoon bhaja moshla and mix well. Get the bhaja moshla recipe here.

14. Let the mixture cool down.
Make small balls from the refined flour or maida dough. You can make 9 – 10 balls.

15. Roll the dough into a small disc with the help of little oil.

16. Place one teaspoon full split black gram or udad dal stuffing in the middle.

17. Bring the edges together and close the ball.

18. Seal the edges well.
Stuff all the balls like this.

19. Press gently and place the stuffed ball sealed side down.

20. Roll the balls gently with rolling pin. Don’t roll these too thin.

21. Heat sufficient oil in a pan or wok.
Slid the rolled kachori in the oil.

22. Press gently with a slatted spatula. When the kachori puffed up turn over and fry the other side too.

23. Remove from oil. Fry all the kachori in this process.

Potato curry

1. Peel and crumble the potatoes with your hand. Don’t make smooth paste, just crumble them.

2. Grind tomatoes, green chilli and ginger into a smooth paste.

3. Heat oil in a pan.
Add cumin seeds. Let them splutter.

4. Add hing stir and the ground tomato paste.

5. Add Cumin powder, coriander powder, kashmiri red chilli powder, turmeric powder and garam masala powder.

6. Saute till oil leaves the sides.
Add crumbled potatoes and salt. Mix well.
Fry for a minute.

7. Add 2 cup water and mix well.

8. Let it boil. Now reduce the flame. Simmer for 7 – 8 minutes. Stir occasionally.

9. Taste and adjust the seasoning. Add more water if require to make gravy.

10. Take out the curry in a serving bowl. Garnish with cilantro or coriander leaves.
Serve with hot hinger kochuri or hing kachori.

Notes

1. Increases or decrease the chill according to your taste.

2. You can add 1/4 cup whole wheat flour or atta with refined flour for the dough.

3. If you are adding whole wheat flour or atta with refined flour add 1/2 teaspoon salt in the dough.

4. You can serve the kachori with dum aloo, chana dal or any spicy curry.

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Dhuska

Dhuska.

A spicy and delicious gluten free breakfast dish.
Dhuska is a common food of Jharkhand. Which are deep fried rice flour and lentil pancakes that may be served with spicy potato curry or chickpea curry.

This month in Shhhhh cooking secretly challenge
facebook group we are sharing different dishes from Jharkhand cuisine. In this group members are paired up every month. And the pairs give each other two secret ingredients. This month my partner for Jharkhand cuisine is Seema Doraiswamy Sriram who blog at

M ildly Indian.co

visit her blog for more delicious recipes. Seema gave me rice and salt as secret ingredients. And I have made these decisions dhuska with these ingredients. Thanks Seema for these easy to use ingredients.
I gave her Bengal gram or chana dal and oil. Visit her blog for the brilliant recipe she shared.

According to Wikipedia Jharkhand (lit. “Bushland” or The land of forest) is a state in eastern India, carved out of the southern part of Bihar on 15 November 2000. The state shares its border with the states of Bihar to the north, Uttar Pradesh to the northwest, Chhattisgarh to the west, Odisha to the south and West Bengal to the east.
The city of Ranchi is its capital and Dumka its sub capital.
Jharkhandis have a cuisine in which spices are rarely used and rice is the staple diet. They prepare different dishes of rice, different types of Rotis, Litti Chokha, Panipuri (Gupchup), Pittha, Dhuska, Dudhauri, kera-dudhauri and Jhalmudh.

Dhuska is a famous dish of Jharkhand cooked with ground rice and pulses and served with either aaloo dum or mutton curry; kera-dudhauri is a famous dish prepared with milk, rice, ghee and gur. In many parts of Jharkhand including Panch Pargana area (Bundu, Rahe, Sonahatu, Silli, Angara, Arki and Tamar Blocks of Ranchi & Khunti districts) a special food item “Charpa” is prepared by frying mashed rice mixed with spicy vegetable preparations; hence the name follows viz. Sembi Charpa, Egg Charpa and many more depending upon the ingredient vegetable source.

I am sharing dhuska recipe today. Serve it as breakfast with dum aloo, any chutney, pickle or any spicy potato curry or serve as a snack with tea or coffee. But believe me you don’t need anything with it. Its spicy and superbly delicious.

Recipe

Rice – 1 cup

Chana dal or split Bengal gram – 1/2 cup

Udad dal or split black gram – 1/4 cup

Ginger – 1 inch piece, grated

Green chilli – 1 – 2, finely chopped

Turmeric powder – 1/4 teaspoon

Cumin powder – 1 teaspoon

Chaat masala powder – 1 teaspoon, optional

Cilantro or coriander leaves – handful, chopped

Salt to taste

Water as require

Oil for deep frying

Method

1. Wash and soak rice and both lentils or dal overnight.

2. Drain the water and grind the rice and lentils into a smooth paste.
Add little water to grind easily. Use very little water.
Batter should be thick but flowing just like idli batter.

3. Add salt, cumin powder, turmeric powder, chaat masala, grated ginger, chopped green chilli, and chopped cilantro or coriander leaves.
Mix well.

4. Heat sufficient oil in a pan or wok.
Pour a ladle full batter in the middle.

5. When it puffed up turn over and fry the other side on low heat. Fry till it becomes golden brown.

6. Remove from oil and place on a paper towel.

7. Increase the heat and add ladle full batter again. Let it puffed up, turn over and fry the other side on low heat. Fry all the dhuska in this method.

8. Serve hot with spicy potato curry or ghugni or chickpea curry.
Or serve as a snack with tea or coffee.

Notes

1. You can add finely chopped onion and minced garlic in the batter if you want.

2. Add green chilli according to your taste. If you want more spicy add 3 – 4 chillies.

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