
This Crispy and fluffy, deep fried Indian flat bread is known to have originated in Uttar Pradesh . These puris are made with whole wheat flour and urad dal/ black gram & is mostly eaten with potato curry / Hing Wale Rasedaar Aloo..
Ingredients for Bedmi Puri
Atta(wheat flour) – 250 grams/2cups
Suji(semolina) – 50 grams(less than ½ cup)
Oil – 1tbsp
Baking soda – 1 pinch
Salt – to taste or ¾ tsp
Oil for frying
Stuffing for Bedmi Puri :
Urad Dal – 50 grams(1/3cup)
Salt – add to taste or ¼ tsp
Red chilli powder – 1 tsp
Garam Masala – ¼ tsp
Aamchur(mango) powder – 1/2 tsp
Heeng(asafoetida) – 1/2 tsp ( more if you like stronger flavor)
Green chilli – 1 to 2(finely chopped)
Ginger – 1 inch long piece(grated)
Green Dhaniya(coriander) – 1 tbsp(finely chopped)
Procedure:
Take wheat flour / Atta and Suji/ semolina together in a bowl. Add salt, oil, baking soda in the crater and mix well. Add little amounts of water regulary to Atta and knead into a stiff dough. Cover the dough and keep it aside for 20 minutes or so .
For Pitthi (stuffing) – Soak Urad dal in water for 4 hours. Then make a coarse paste of it. Add all the spices to the paste and properly blend it. The stuffing for Bedmi Puri is ready.
Remove cover from the dough. Apply little oil on your hand and knead the dough until it is smooth. Divide the dough into 15 to 20 pieces ( depending on the size you want )& roll them into balls.
Take one ball of dough, place it on a board and flatten it a bit with a rolling pin. Now place this piece on your hand and place 1tsp of stuffing on it. Bring the edges together and pinch to seal. Gently press this stuffed piece with the other hand and flatten. Keep it aside on a plate. Repeat the process with the remaining pieces of dough.
Pour oil in wok (pan) and heat. Pick one stuffed piece of dough ,apply minimum pressure roll it into a slightly thick Puri Flatten by pressing gently and roll into rounds of 3-4 inches . Grease the surface of the rolling pin, if necessary.
Put Puri into hot oil. Fry on a medium flame till it turns brown on both sides. Take out Puri from Kadhai and place it on a plate covered with a paper towel . Similary, fry the remaining Puris.
Serve Bedmi Puri along with Hing wale Rassedar Aloo & Chutney




Yum!
Thank you 🙂
Lovely! I had Radha Ballavi from Bengal and this seems to be a similar but a spicier version of that puri.
Aruna , have never tried Radha Ballavi . This one is a little spicy and more like khasta kachori !!
Jayeeta of Cooking Delight had done a guest post on Radha Ballavi – Cholar Dal for me. 🙂
Yes, I realised yours was more like khasta kachori and was excited to try it!
It looks very tasty 🙂
Thank you Dear thank you Dear 🙂
oooh, drooling !!
Thank you dear 🙂
perfect breakfast with that rasedar aloo 😀 and some pickle on the side 😉 Shail they look perfectly puffed 🙂
Thank you dear Andy . We had them for Brunch 🙂
This looks like kachori and just loving it….
Chitra its like a kachori only 🙂