Daal Puri (Stuffed Bread with Spiced Bengal Gram )

Daal Puri (Stuffed Bread with Spiced Bengal Gram )

 It is delicious and spicy stuffed bread with taste of Bengal Gram which is usually cooked in north Indian Kitchen at special occasion or festival time. 

Ingredients for stuffing :-                      For 4 to 5 person

Chana Daal (Splitted Bengal gram)- 200gm

Green Chillie (finely chopped)- 3 table spoon

Garlic(Finely grated) - 1/2 table spoon. 

Ginger (Finely Grated) -  1 table spoon

Black Pepper (Crushed)- 1/2 table spoon

Salt- 1 table spoon

Dry Coconut - 1/2 table spoon

For Dough :-

Wheat Flour- 4 big Spoon

Ajwain (Carom) Seeds- 1 tea spoon

Salt-1/2 tea spoon

Water- 50ml

Ghee- 1 table spoon

Eatable Soda- 1/4th tea spoon

For cooking :-  Mustard Oil/ Refined Oil- 200 ml

Procedure:-

Stuffing material :-                      Time- 15 to 18 min.

       First of all clean and wash the Daal  and soaked in water for 5 mins. Now cook it in pressure cooker upto 4 to 5 whistles on medium flame of gas. Now leave it for 5 mins. and drain all water from it. Now put cooked Daal in a separate  big bowl and set it aside. Now add finely chopped green Chillie,  chopped garlic, ginger to this bowl of cooked Daal. Now add crushed black pepper, salt and grated dry coconut to it. Mix all these ingredients well and leave it separate. 

Dough Preparation :-                    Time- 3 to 4 min.

        Dough preparation is an art which is easy to learn. First take a separate big bowl and put Wheat flour to it. Now add Carom seeds to it. Mix it and add salt, Ghee, Eatable Soda to it and mash it lightly. Now add water to it slowly at interval. Now knead it in well manner. By adding eatable soda and ghee to it, your dough will be little soft and will puff during cooking, Your dough is ready or not you can check it by  slightly pressing your finger on it. When it leave little impression of your finger to it then your dough is OK. Now make equal big lemon sized ball of it and stuffed it with its stuffing material discussed above. But note that stuffed material should not be come out. Now  press it little between your palms and roll it little on kitchen board. Thus rolled out each and every balls like this and keep it on a disc or plate.

 Cooking:-

     Take a Pan and heat it on medium heat on gas flame. When it becomes hot properly then put refined oil to it. When Oil starts heating then add one of your rolled stuffed balls to it. Now fry it well both side. You will see that it starts puffing and color become little golden brown. Now your delicious Daal Puri is ready.  Like this fry all rolled balls.  

 * Serve this hot with tomato sauce or potato veg curry. Enjoy it with your family and friends. It will be really a memorable moment.