Kitchen Tantra

Masala Paal Poori:(Marwadi Style)

Milk Poori. Paal Poori. Badam Poori.

Ingredients:

For Masala paal:

Almonds 1/4 cup
Pista 1/4 cup
Cashewnuts 1/4 cup
Walnuts 1/4 cup
Farm fresh Milk 1 cup
Cardamon seeds powder 1/2 spoon
Saffron few strands
Sugar 1/2 cup

For Poori:

Wheat flour 1 cup
Salt less than 1/4 spoon
Baking soda less than 1/4 spoon
Warm milk 1/2 cup
Ghee few spoons
Working flour - few spoons
Oil for frying.

Method:

Dough Preparation:

In a large bowl....sift flour, salt, baking powder.

Add warm milk and ghee to this. Prepare a fine textured dough. Maybe give lots of pressure while preparing dough. Add ghee, once again as finishing touch.

Leave the dough in the bowl. Cover the bowl with wet cloth. Let it stand for whole 2 hours.

Masala Milk Preparation:

Now soak almonds in warm water for 20 minutes. Then peel its skin off.

In a separate bowl soak cashew, pista and walnuts in warm water.

In a belnder, add all the above said nuts. Wet grind them into thin paste. Strain them using a stainer/muslin cloth.....to extract thick nut's milk. (or one can use as such too.

In a vessel heat sugar, add cardamon seeds, saffron and farm fresh milk to this. Let it boil well.

To this milk add above said nut's milk or nut's puree. Allow it to boil. Then leave this milk mixture in fridge for 4-6 hours.

Making Masala Poori:

Heat oil in shallow wok.

Make equal parts out of dough. Knead them into small 'pooris'. Maybe 3" diameter.

Fry these pooris till golden color. Let it cool down for a while.

Then soak them in masal milk prepared above. Serve chilled.

Labels: Indian Bread