TriColor Poori – Recipe For Republic Day

Ingredients

• 3 cups Wheat Flour
• 2 Food Color – Saffron & Green
• 3 tsp of Semolina (suji) for making Poori crisp
• 2-3 tsp Clarified Butter or Ghee
• Half cup of Milk
• Water for kneading the dough
• 1 tsp of Ajwain
• Salt to taste
• Oil for deep frying

How To Make Tricolor Poori

• Mix the grated paneer with salt and black pepper.
• Make three different soft smooth doughs
• One dough  of green colour by adding green food colour. Add salt & one tsp of suji and prepare the dough.
• Second dough of saffron colour by adding saffron food colour. Add salt & one tsp of suji and prepare the dough.
• Third one of wheat flour by adding salt, one tsp of suji and half cup of milk.
• Add a pinch of ajwain in all the three doughs.
• Keep all the three doughs covered for about 10 minutes with a wet muslin cloth.
• Knead the dough again for a minute and apply a little ghee to make the dough softer.
• Then take equal proportion of dough  from all the three doughs and mix it to make equal sized balls and roll them each in a flat round.
• Heat the oil in a pan and deep fry each of the pooris on both sides till it becomes golden and crisp.
• While  frying, press the poori with a laddle when it tries to float on the top. This will make the pooris puffy.
• Serve hot with curd, pickle or potato sabji.

Tip: Instead of using green food color you can use Boiled Spinach (palak) or Chenopodium album (bathua). It will add a good taste to the poori.

Hope you will enjoy this recipe on republic day 🙂

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