Spicy Poories with Koool Aloo Raita!!

I got this label 'Duo recipes ' to portray some recipes which comes in mind together. I mean if recipe 'A' comes in mind then automatically B comes along to compliment A :)

Alright, so here comes one of my favourite...Spicy poories...a simple recipe with very few ingredients..and yet so yummy :)

Preparation time: 10 minutes

Cooking time: 10 minutes

Ingredients:

Puri:

2 cups wheat flour

water to make a dough

Ajwain seeds

Sesame seeds

oil for deep frying

salt to taste

Red chili powder as per taste

2 tsp Turmeric powder

Half tsp Garlic paste(optional)

2tsp Gram flour/ Besan

For Raita:

7-8 small or 5-6 medium sized potatoes.

Yogurt

salt to taste

4 green chillies chopped

pinch of asafoetida powder

1 tsp sugar

1 tsp mustard seeds powder

coriander powder

For tempering: 2 tsp oil,mustard seeds,cumin seeds,1 tsp urad dal,curry leaves.

chopped cilantro for garnishing

Procedure:

Puri:

1. Mix all the ingredients together along with 2 tsp oil and knead a stiff dough.
2. Make small sized balls and apply little oil on ball and then roll them into round puris.
3. Heat the oil in a nonstick pan or a wok.
4. Deep fry the puri. As soon as you put the puri in pan, press it gently with the spoon.This makes the puri to puff well.

Raita:

1. Cook the potatoes in pressure cooker.
2. Once they are cooled down, peel them off.
3. Cut into small cubes.
4. Churn the yogurt well so that it will not leave water once mixed with potatoes.
5. Add this yogurt in chopped potatoes along with sugar.
6. Heat up the oil in small kadhai and put mustard seeds,cumin seeds,urad dal,asafoetida powder,chopped green chillies and curry leaves.
7. Pour this tempering on Raita.
8. Mix well.
9. At the end just before serving add salt as per taste.
10. Garnish with chopped cilantro.