Singhada - Bhagar Flour poori

In some ways traditional fasting food or "vrat ka khana" has ingredients are that are packed with nutrients. One such ingredient is Singhada or water caltrop. Singhada has cooling properties and also improves appetite along with being source of various useful minerals like iodine and manganese. But then food need not be always complected so much, isn't it?

In simple words it tastes great. And be on fasting or not, it is always good to add variety to your daily food consumption which in a way also helps you get valuables nutrients which you miss on otherwise. So even if you are not fasting, you can try replacing your regular poori breakfast with these Singhada-Bhagar flour poories. Here I share very simple yet very tasty recipe for making these.



Ingredients:

1. 1/2 cup Singhada flour
2. 1/2 cup Bhagar(Vari che tandul) flour (samak ka atta) 
3. 2 medium sized boiled and peeled potato
4. 1 tbsp ginger-green chilli paste
5. 1/2 tbsp jeera
6. Salt to taste
7. Oil for deep frying

Preparation:

1. In a bowl, mash the boiled potato with hands. Make smooth paste without any lumps
2. Now add Singhada and Bhagar flour, salt, ginger-chilli paste , jeera to it and mix well
3. The dough should form with moisture of the boiled potato. If the fix is too dry add spoonful water at a time and mix. Make stiff dough, apply little oil and keep aside
4. Now make small balls of the dough. To make poories, place a plastic sheet on flat surface, place the dough ball on it, cover with another plastic sheet and gentlu press the dough ball between two plastic sheets with your hands to make the poori
5. Heat oil and deep fry poori till brown on both sides. Repeat for remaining poories

Serve hot with cucumber raita or curds.




Here is boiled Singhada that we get in my hometowan from. The inner white seed is what is consumes. In this form it is also high on water and fiber.


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  1. Very informative, keep posting such good articles, it really helps to know about things.

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