Masala Puri

Puri is a special fried bread of India. This recipe adds a little flavor to the traditional puri.
Ingredients:

• 3 cups wheat flour
• 3 tsp dhanajeeru
• 1 tsp turmeric powder
• 1/2 tsp red pepper
• 1 tsp salt
• 3 1/2 tbsp corn oil
• 1 1/4 cups water
• plenty of corn oil for frying

Kneading and Shaping:

In a bowl, add 3 cups of wheat flour, 3 tsp dhanajeeru, 1 tsp turmeric powder, 1/2 tsp red pepper (can add extra to make it spicier), 1 tsp salt, and 3 tbsp corn oil. Hand mix these ingredients well together. Then slowly mix in 1 1/4 cups of water. This may need to be slightly adjusted to create the right texture for the dough. As you knead the dough, add in the last 1/2 tbsp of corn oil. 

Kneaded dough.

Separate the dough into small spheres, with about a 1 1/4 inch diameter each. Flatten each of these spheres out into a 2 inch diameter disk with your hands. This recipe should make about 60 of them.

Flattened disks.

Roll out the disks into circles that each have about a 3 inch diameter. You can do them all at once or,  as you become more comfortable with this cooking style, learn to roll them out as you begin frying the first ones you completed.

Puri rolled out.

Frying:
Fill a medium sized frying pot about 1/3 of the way full with corn oil. Start it on med heat. You can test the oil heat with a small bit of dough. After carefully dropping it in the oil, the dough should immediately pop. If this does not occur immediately, the oil has not been heated enough yet.

Heating the oil.

Carefully place about 1-3 rolled out circles of dough into the oil at a time. After each circle becomes inflated, turn it over in the oil. Remove them once both sides have small bubbles on the surfaces. Place the finished puri in a bowl lined with paper towels to absorb the extra oil.

Frying.

Finished!