Puri Holi Recipe

Puri is a popular Indian dish, In this festive season every Indian kitchens are busy to Prepare Holi  Pakka Kahana Puri with subzi. Try this easy way of making tasty puris

Ingredients for Puri Recipe

Wheat flour – 2 ½ cups

Water – 2/3 cup

Salt to taste

Oil for deep frying

Method of Preparing Puri

Mix salt and flour and add the water slowly. Use one hand to mix the flour with water in a rotating motion till the dough becomes elastic and smooth.

Cover the dough with a wet towel and keep aside for 30 minutes.

Make small balls and dip in oil and rollout 4 inches round. Repeat the same process and make all puris.

Fry the puris in very hot oil. Put one puri immediately and start flickering hot oil over the top of it.

The puri will swell up like a ball Fry the both side until golden brown.

Drain the puris and put on kitchen towel.

Serve hot with Aloo tomato curry or kadhu curry.

Matter Karanjis Holi Recipe

Mattar Karanji is a popular recipe. Learn how to prepare Mattar Karanji in this Holi time.

Ingredients for Mattar Karanjis

Maida – 2 cups

Green peas – 2 cups [crushed]

Salt to taste

Oil – 2 tbsp

Mustard seeds –1 tsp

Green chilies –3 [chopped]

Coriander leaves – 1 tbsp

Oil for frying

Method of the preparing of Mattar Karanjis

Mix the maida salt and  2 tbsp of oil and knead to make stiff dough and cover with a wet cloth and keep aside.

Heat oil in a pan and put the mustard seeds when mustard seeds start spluttering, add chopped green chilies, crushed green peas, salt and chopped coriander leaves.

Mix well and cook for 5—8 minutes and put off the flame.

Divide the dough into small equal sized balls. Rollout round shaped puris of 3 inches. Place 2 tsp of filling on one half of puri and wet the edges with fingers and fold over. Lightly press to seal.

Heat oil in a pan and fry the Karanjis until crisp and golden brown.

Drain excess oil on kitchen towel.

Serve hot.

Aloo Chaat Holi Recipe

Aloo chaat is popular Indian recipe, made by spicy potatoes. In this Holi season try the easy way to prepare tasty Aloo Chaat.

Ingredients  for  Aloo Chaat

Potatoes – 4 [peel and cut into square pieces]

Tomato – 1 [diced]

Onion – 1 [chopped]

Red chili powder – ½ tsp

Chat Masala a    Powder – 1 tsp

Roasted cumin seeds – 1 tsp[powdered]

Lemon juice – 2 tsp

Tamarind chutney – 2 tsp

Green chutney – 2 tsp

Pepper powder – ½ tsp

Coriander leaves – 1 tbsp [chopped]

Salt to taste

Oil for frying

Method of the preparation of Aloo chaat

Heat oil in a pan and fry the potato pieces on low flame until light golden brown. Drain and put on kitchen towel.

Place the fried potatoes in a bowl and add chopped onion, diced tomatoes, red chili powder, chat masala, cumin seeds powder, pepper powder and salt.

Add tamarind chutney, green chutney over the aloo chaat. Aloo chat is ready.

Make individual plates.  Garnish with chopped coriander leaves and serve.

Thandai Holi Recipe

It is a popular drink in India.Thandai is a milk based sweet drink.Thandai is one of the traditional drinks of India. It is mostly prepared during Holi. It is a good energizer also.Learn how to make delicious drink in this Holi day.

Ingredients of Thandai  

  

Milk – 1 liter

Water – 2 cups

Sugar – ½ cup

Aniseeds – 1 tsp

Cardamom powder— ½  tsp

A few Saffron strands

Pepper corns – 8

Almonds – 1 tbsp

Watermelon seeds – 1 tbsp

Rose petals – ½ cup

Poppy seeds – 2 tsp

Method of Preparation of Thandai

Soak the almonds, aniseeds, Poppy seeds, water melon seeds and rose petals in 2 cups of water.

Boil the milk and allow it to cool.

Grind the soaked ingredients in a mixer grinder to a smooth paste. Add the water into the paste and mix well. Strain it through muslin strainer.

Extract the liquid into a bowl and add the pepper corns, sugar, and saffron and cardamom powder. Mix well

Add into the boiled milk and blend nicely.

Thandai is ready. Chill and serve.

Mal Pua Holi Recipe

Mal Pua is a popular and traditional  recipe of India. In this Holi festive time learn how to prepare mal pua in easy and tasty way.

Ingredients for Mal Pua

 Maida [plain flour] – ½ cup

Semolina [suji] – ½ cup

Cardamom – 5 [powdered]

Sugar – 1 cup

Oil for frying

Method of Preparing Mal Pua

Boil the milk on low flame until it becomes thick and pink in colour. Remove from the flame and keep aside.

Roast the semolina [suji] till light brown. Add cardamom powder and   milk along with maida and mix gently.  It should be a smooth batter.

Heat the oil. Pour the batter with a round shaped serving spoon and make small pan cakes. Take care that it does not become hard and crisp.

Make sugar syrup of 1 thread consistency and dip the malpuas in the sugar syrup.

Mal pua is ready to serve.

Meetha Poodas Holi Recipe

Ingredients for Poodas

Wheat flour – 2 cups

 Sugar – 1 cup

Yogurt – ½ cup

Method of  Preparing Meeta Holi Poodas

Mix all the ingredients into thick dough by adding little water. Cover and keep aside for2 hours. Make small oval shaped balls and deep fry in hot oil on low flame until golden brown.

 Take out on Kitchen towel to absorb excess oil.  Serve it with yogurt.

Papri [Papdi] Chat Holi Recipe

Ingredients for Papri Chat

For Puris

Wheat flour – 1 cup

Maida [plain flour] – 2 cups

Oil – ¼ cup

Cumin seeds – 1 tsp

Ajwain seeds – 1 tsp

Chili powder – 1 ½ tsp

Turmeric powder -- ¼ tsp

Asafetida – ¼ tsp

Oil for deep frying

Salt to taste

For Green Chutney

Coriander leaves – ½ cup

Green chillies – 2

Lemon juice – 2 tsp

Onion – 1

Salt to taste

For Sweet Chutney

Tamarind Juice – 2 tbsp

Dates – 4

Red chili powder

Salt to taste

For Curd Mix

Curd – 3 ½ cups

Sugar – 3 tbsp

Cumin seeds – 1 tsp [roasted and powdered]

Salt to taste

Potatoes – 2 [boiled]

Chat powder – 1 tsp

Method of Preparation of Chat paprii

Mix wheat flour, maida, ajwain seeds, cumin seeds, ¼ cup oil, chili powder, turmeric powder, asafetida and salt.

Knead a little hard dough by adding sufficient water. Roll out very small even sized puris and deep fry till golden brown.  Keep aside.

  Grind the coriander leaves, green chilies, onion and salt in a mixer and mix with lemon juice.

 Make the sweet chutney by boiling the dates in tamarind juice and little water, till they are cooked and grind in a mixer grinder.

Mix the sugar and salt in curd and beat nicely. Add Roasted cumin seeds.

Peel and coarsely mash the potatoes and add salt and mix ½ tsp chat powder. While serving lightly crush the puris add mashed potatoes. Add curd mix, green chutney and red sweet chutney over it.

Sprinkle little red chili powder and chat powder.

Papri chat is ready to serve.