Ajwain Puri is a deep-fried puffed Indian bread flavoured with carom seeds. These are crispy delicious pooris served with side dishes like Amritsari Aloo or Chana Masala and Boondi Raita to make it a complete meal.
This Puri Flavoured With Carom Seeds is a very simple and easy Indian Bread to make and it sure is healthy as it has Ajwain Seeds added. Cooking a little longer will get you a crispy texture that makes it a wonderful taste. You can serve this for breakfast or any meal along with side dishes.
This Punjabi Breakfast was one of the first ones I prepared for this theme. Since it involved puris, it was easy to decide. Sundays mostly end up being a brunch and I wanted to have some sweets included. Both were almost an afterthought and I had to come up with some instant versions.
The whole platter was most enjoyable as everything complemented and was a delicious one. Ajwain Poori is the featured dish in the Punjabi Breakfast Thali. On SYL, it's another popular Street food menu!
As part of the Punjabi Nasta Thali, I served these pooris with Dal, Pindi Chole and for dessert, it is Vegan Carrot Halwa and Rabdi.
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Step By Step Pictures for Ajwain Poori
Ingredients Used to make Ajwain Puri
The main ingredients for making this poori is wheat flour along with ajwain.
Adding ghee to the dough makes it crispy. The turmeric powder is added for colour, though it is healthy to use.
Cooking for a minute more will ensure crispy pooris that are very tasty.
Ajwain Puri Recipe
Equipment
- Rolling Pin
- Rolling Board
- Kadai for deep frying
Ingredients
- 2 cups Wheat Flour
- 1 tsp Ajwain / Carom seeds
- 1/2 tsp Turmeric Powder
- Salt to Taste
- 2 tsp Ghee
- Cooking Oil for deep frying
Instructions
- In a wide bowl, take the wheat flour along with salt, turmeric powder, ghee, and ajwain. Mix everything well. Add warm water slowly to knead to a stiff dough.
- Heat a Kadai with oil for deep frying.
- Knead again and pinch out equal balls. Dust well and roll out to 6 inch diameter.
- Once the oil is hot, gently slide the pooris and press on the top for the pooris to puff up.
- Flip to the other side and cook.
- Once done, take out on a kitchen towel to absorb the excess oil.
- Serve your delicious puffed up Ajwain Puris with a side dish of your choice.
- I served it with Pindi Chole, Dal Fry along with Gajar Halwa and Rabdri for a delicious brunch.
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Harini Rupanagudi says
I almost make pooris adding ajwain but never thought to post it on the blog as I thought it is a default ingredient 🙂 Love all the components on the menu.
Vaishali says
Ajwain Pooris look nice and crisp, I normally do not use ajwain for all pooris, but yes in a few I do add. These pair well with chole, and how nice that your family enjoyed this brunch.
Srividhya Gopalakrishnan says
I love to add carom seeds and hing to all my fried goodies as it aids digestion. Also, we love the flavor of carom seeds. Those are puffy golden beauties are definitely tempting.
Renu says
The pooris have puffed out so well. Adding Ajwain definetly helps in digestion and adds to flavour too.
NARMADHA says
I make ajwain poori often and don't add turmeric powder. love the color of this poori. So perfectly puffed up .