Besan ki Masala Poori or Besani Masala Poori is a poori made with Gram flour or Besan along with roasted spice powders. This makes a wonderful and ideal dish for weekend brunch.
If you have the spice powders ground, you can easily make them for your weekday breakfast as well. As I have already mentioned, I decided to make this for our Sunday Brunch. I gave the recipe to Amma and Konda and watching over them making it. Along with this, I had another poori recipe lined up and Konda was going on saying that we can make it again for dinner so that she can click a better picture.
I was very clear that I wanted the clicking business to be completed in the morning as these dishes are hard to be clicked during nighttime. Even though 95% of my pictures are clicked during the night with artificial light and I am very much comfortable, when it's not who's clicking, I am a little hyper over the lighting.
Anyway, this poori stayed put in its shape before we could attack. We loved both pooris we made and naturally kids ask the same request for this to be repeated. Well, with 24 more pooris lined up, I don't think I might come back to this any soon. Still, it feels great to know the dish was liked by all.
This was part of the AtoZ series I did on Indian Pooris, for the entire collection of A to Z Indian Pooris, check the roundup.
If you are looking for different options for Indian Breakfast and feel adventurous about making it in alphabets, do see the roundup of A to Z Indian Breakfast dishes.
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Besan ki Masala Poori
Ingredients Needed:
2 cups Besan / Gram flour
1 cup Wheat Flour
Salt to taste
1/2 tsp Turmeric Powder
1 tsp Red Chilli Powder
1 tbsp Cooking Oil
Cooking Oil as required for deep frying
Water for Kneading
Whole Spices /Khada Masala
2 tsp of each whole spice listed below
Cumin Seeds
Fennel Seeds
Peppercorn
Coriander Seeds
2 nos Dry Red Chillies
Whole Spices /Khada Masala
Heat a pan and dry roast the whole spices. Allow them to cool and pound into a coarse powder
For the Poori Dough
Take a wide bowl, add all the ingredients including the whole spice powder.
Mix well and slowly add water to knead to a stiff dough.
Cover and let it sit for 10 mins.
Heat a kadai with oil for deep frying.
Finally, when ready to fry, knead the dough again and pinch out equal balls.
Dust with flour and roll into 7-inch diameter. When the oil is hot, gently slide in the poori.
Fry on both sides and transfer onto a kitchen towel.
Serve with subzi of choice.
I served it with Tamatar aloo ki sabzi and chana masala along with Kheer.
Recipe
Besan ki Masala Poori
Ingredients
For the Poori
- 2 cups Besan / Gram flour
- 1 cup Wheat Flour
- Salt to taste
- 1/2 tsp Turmeric Powder
- 1 tsp Red Chilli Powder
- 1 tbsp Cooking Oil
- Cooking Oil as required for deep frying
- Water for Kneading
Whole Spices /Khada Masala
- 2 tsp Cumin Seeds
- 2 tsp Fennel Seeds
- 2 tsp Pepper corn
- 2 tsp Coriander Seeds
- 2 nos Dry Red Chillies
Instructions
Whole Spices /Khada Masala
- Heat a pan and dry roast the whole spices. Allow them to cool and pound into a coarse powder
For the Poori Dough
- Take a wide bowl, add all the ingredients including the whole spice powder.
- Mix well and slowly add water to knead to a stiff dough.
- Cover and let it sit for 10 mins.
- Heat a kadai with oil for deep frying.
- When ready to fry, knead the dough again and pinch out equal balls.
- Dust with flour and roll into 7 inch diameter. Whent the oil is hot, gently slide in the poori.
- Fry on both sides and transfer on to a kitchen towel.
- Serve with subzi of choice.
- I served it with Tamatri aloo ki sabzi and chana masala along with Kheer.
Vaishali Sabnani says
Awesome ! Now this poori is surely pulling me , sounds super super delicious ! And truly I am looking forward to all your Poori recipes , even though I make pooris only once in six months ! Ehe he .
Kalyani says
Like Vaishali, we also rarely make Pooris ! nevertheless, just stopped by to say, 26 A-Z poori varieties !! the idea itself floors me, Valli - what an idea, madam ji ! good luck with the series.. the besan version looks very alluring ...
Srivalli says
Thanks Kalyani, 🙂
Saraswathi Ganeshan says
Oh My! I am stumbled upon on all your poori recipes. Sure this is going to be in my list!
Sandhya Ramakrishnan says
My boys love pooris any day and would love this masaledar besan poori. It is a good change for me to from the routine ones. Would love this for weekend lunch 🙂
Harini Rupanagudi says
Wow! Love those spices which went in the poori. I also make poori very rarely but I am sure my family would love this spicy version.
Amara says
I too rarely make poori but besan poori that too with spices... is just out of the world.
Sushma Pinjala says
Wow what a flavorful poori, love the spices you added to the dough. Looks yummy
Suma Gandlur says
Though I don't venture into poori making business that often, everyone else at home don't mind to see a plate of piping hot poori in front of them. Loving the idea of spicy pooris.
Suma Gandlur says
Though I don't venture into poori making business that often, everyone else at home don't mind to see a plate of piping hot poori in front of them. Loving the idea of spicy and flavor loaded pooris.