Aloo Besan Curry ( Pitla) With Poori

Poori with Potato besan curry is one of  me and my Husband's favorite dish. This is one of the dish which you would definitely get in any restaurant in Andhra. This dish is usually served for breakfast. Tastes amazing when the curry is hot and puffed poori's are just made. 

I have posted this dish long time ago but wasn't satisfied with the pictures I have taken. Thanks to Valli's  Blogging Marathon Themes where you get to redo the old posts with new pictures. I have a bunch of posts where I need to change the pictures. So starting this weeks post with Aloo / Potato besan curry served with poori. This recipes goes to day 1 of week 4's theme "Redo old posts". Here goes the recipe.....

Ingredients for Besan Aloo Curry:

Besan 4 sps

Onion 1 large

Aloo 1 medium

Green chillies 2

Mustard seeds 1/2 sp

Cumin seeds 1/2 sp

Red chilli 1

Chana dal 1/2 sp

Salt to taste

Curry leaves 4

Haldi pinch

Oil 2 tbsp


Ingredients to make poori:

Wheat flour 2 cups
Water to make dough
Oil for deep frying

Preparation:

Add enough  water to wheat flour and make semi soft dough.

This dough should be little harder than the chapati dough.
Cover and set aside for 10 minutes.
Meanwhile lets make curry.

Heat pan and add 2 tbsp  oil.

Add mustard seeds, cumin seeds, chana dal, curry leaves and  red chilies.

Saute for a minute  and add onions slices and slit green chilies.

Saute for few minutes and add potato pieces.

Fry for 2 minutes and add 1 cup water.

In a small bowl add 1/2 cup of  water and besan / gram flour and mix well.

Now add this besan water to boiling water in pan and mix well thoroughly so that no lumps are formed.

Cover with lid and cook further on low flame for 7-8 minutes.

Switch off flame and keep aside.

How to make poori:

In a large pan heat oil.
Divide dough into small lemon size balls and roll them to give a circular shape.
Fry these poori's in hot oil.
Gently press with spatula on top as soon as you add poori in oil, it helps in poori to puff up.
Turn around and cook on other side.
Remove and place them  on paper towel to remove excess oil

Serve hot with besan aloo curry which is also called Pitla.

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