- Making Suji Puri Dough:
- In a mixing bowl, take the fine unroasted sooji or rava or semolina, 1 teaspoon oil, baking soda and salt. With your fingers, mix the oil evenly with the sooji.
- Now add all-purpose flour to this mixture.
- Mix again very well so that the all-purpose flour is mixed evenly.
- Add 3 tablespoon water first. Mix again. Then add 1 tablespoon water more and begin to knead the dough. Sooji absorbs water while kneading. Add water in parts while kneading.
- Then add 2 tablespoon more of the water and continue to knead. The kneading is very important in getting the perfect texture. The dough is not soft nor too hard.
- If you make the dough soft, then add 1 to 3 teaspoon more of the suji. If the dough looks hard, then add sprinkle some water and continue to knead.
- The suji puri dough should be elastic. Gluten strands need to be formed, which gives a structure and shape to the pooris. The correct texture of the dough, also help in puffing puris and helps in them staying crisp.
- Knead very well. Elasticity helps in rolling the dough without cracks and thinly. When rolling, the dough should roll easily without any cracks. You should be easily able to lift the rolled dough without it tearing or breaking and falling apart.
- Knead to a semi soft elastic dough and keep it in a bowl or pan.
- Cover the dough with a moist kitchen towel or napkin and allow the dough to rest for 30 minutes. You can also keep the dough for an hour.
- After 30 minutes, knead the dough again.
- Assembling And Rolling:
- In a mixing bowl, take the fine unroasted sooji or rava or semolina, 1 teaspoon oil, baking soda and salt. With your fingers, mix the oil evenly with the sooji.
- Now add all-purpose flour to this mixture.
- Mix again very well so that the all-purpose flour is mixed evenly.
- Add 3 tablespoon water first. Mix again. Then add 1 tablespoon water more and begin to knead the dough. Sooji absorbs water while kneading. Add water in parts while kneading.
- Then add 2 tablespoon more of the water and continue to knead. The kneading is very important in getting the perfect texture. The dough is not soft nor too hard.
- If you make the dough soft, then add 1 to 3 teaspoon more of the suji. If the dough looks hard, then add sprinkle some water and continue to knead.
- The suji puri dough should be elastic. Gluten strands need to be formed, which gives a structure and shape to the pooris. The correct texture of the dough, also help in puffing puris and helps in them staying crisp.
- Knead very well. Elasticity helps in rolling the dough without cracks and thinly. When rolling, the dough should roll easily without any cracks. You should be easily able to lift the rolled dough without it tearing or breaking and falling apart.
- Knead to a semi soft elastic dough and keep it in a bowl or pan.
- Cover the dough with a moist kitchen towel or napkin and allow the dough to rest for 30 minutes. You can also keep the dough for an hour.
- After 30 minutes, knead the dough again.
- Assembling And Rolling:
- Now divide the dough into two or three parts. Take one part on your work surface and begin to roll. Avoid adding any dry flour while kneading. Keep the remaining dough covered with the moist kitchen towel.
- Roll to large round discs. There should be no cracks in the rolled dough. You can flip the entire rolled dough without it breaking or tearing apart.
- Keep on rolling to a thin and even round. The puri have to be thinly rolled. If not thin, the base becomes thick and remains soft even after frying. If the dough is not rolled evenly, then the puri won't puff up.
- Making Suji Ke Golgappe:
- With a cookie cutter or a small bowl, cut small to medium discs from the rolled dough. Using a cookie cutter gives even shape and size to the pooris. You can also make small balls and roll them. But then the puri won't have an even and uniform shape.
- Remove the dough edges and place the small roundels in a plate without them touching each other. Keep these puris covered with a moist kitchen towel.
- Collect the egdes and knead them lightly. Roll the edges too and make puris the same way.
- In this way make all the puris and keep them covered in a moist kitchen towel. You can also roll them and fry simultaneously like I have done.
- Frying Suji Puri:
- Heat oil for deep frying in a kadai or pan. The oil should be medium hot. Add a tiny piece of the dough ball in the hot oil. If the ball steadily comes up to the surface, the oil is hot and the pooris can be fried now.
- Slid a few pooris in the oil. They will puff up quickly as soon as you add them to the hot oil. You can fry up to 4 to 8 pieces at a time, depending on the size of your pan.
- With a slotted spoon flip them, once they puff up. Even after oil stops sizzling, continue to fry till light golden. Frying this way, gives a crisp texture to the pooris from outside as well as inside. Otherwise, they remain soft from inside and crisp from outside.
- Fry them till they are a light golden or golden.
- Drain fried puri on kitchen paper towels. There will be a few flat puris too. These you can use to make sev puri or papdi chaat. Continue to fry all the pooris this way.
- Drain them on paper towels.
- Once they get cooled at room temperature, immediately add puris to a jar or box and close the lid tightly.
- Make pani puri, dahi puri or ragda puri or puchka from these homemade pooris or golgappas. You will get 50 to 60 pooris from this recipe. They stay crisp and good for a month if stored in an airtight box.
- Making of the Panipuri Stuffings:
- Boil 100 gram potatoes previously and add them to a wok/Kadai. Pour some cooking oil into the kadai. Once it comes to a boil, add onions, ginger-garlic paste, all the necessary spices such as coriander powder, cumin powder, chaat masala, turmeric powder, a pinch of red chilli powder (optional), salt (to taste), and a pinch of sugar (to balance the extra chilli flavour, if any). Saute and cook well. Once done, set aside for cooling to room temperature.
- Making of the Tamarind Sauce:
- Take a bowl and in it pour enough water and dip your desired amount of tamarind. Mix well until the seeds are left out. Strain the leftovers of the tamarind and pour the liquid sauce in a fresh bowl. Add fresh Coriander/Parsley leaves along with lemon juice and set aside by covering with an air tight lid.
- For SPECIAL PANIPURI's:
- Thereafter, take each of the roundells and with your left thumb, break their upper portions and put in enough stuffings followed by a dip in the bowl containing the tamarind water.
- Sprinkle enough Ghoti-Gorom for that Special Heavenly flavour and enjoy!
- For SWEET and SOUR PANIPURI's:
- Follow the same process of stuffing the roundells thereafter sprinkling some sev/Alu bhujiya on them followed by a spoonful of any Sweet and Sour Chutney (e.g., the Tomato Chutney) on them and enjoy!
- FOR DRY and Spicy PANIPURI's:
- Follow the same procedure of stuffing, however, instead of dipping the stuffed roundells into the tamarind water or smearing any kind of sweet or sour chutney, sprinkle enough Sev/Alu Bhujiya/Jhuri Bhaja followed by a pinch of black pepper powder (optional (my experimentation)) on each of the roundells. Bon appetite 🥡
