Badaam Poori

Serves:	4
Recipe Type:	Veg.
Preparation Time:	30 M
Cooking Time:	15 M
Difficulty:	Easy

Ingredients:

• 2 cups all purpose Flour (Maida)
• ½ tsp Salt
• 4 tbsp Clarified Butter (Ghee)
• Orange Food Color
• Dry Coconut (grated)
• Chopped Nuts
• Oil for frying
  
  For syrup
• 1 cup Sugar
• 1 cup Water
• 1 tsp Cardamom Powder

Cooking Instructions:

• Mix flour, food color and salt with water to make soft dough.
• Keep it covered for 20 minutes.
• Now prepare the sugar syrup by adding 1 cup of water to 1 cup of sugar and boiling it.
• Keep boiling till you get a thread-like consistency.
• Now add cardamom powder and keep aside.
• Make small lemon-sized balls of the dough and keep them covered.
• Now dust the working surface with some flour.
• Take a ball and roll into a flat disc. Smear ghee on the surface.
• Now fold it into half and then in half again until it looks like a triangle.
• Then press lightly with a rolling pin.
• Follow the same procedure for the remaining balls.
• Heat oil in a frying pan and dip the prepared triangular pooris in it one by one.
• Deep fry the pooris on a medium flame till golden brown.
• As soon as you take them out from the oil, dip them in the sugar syrup.
• Remove with the help of tongs and keep aside on a plate.
• Finally decorate each poori with grated dry coconut and chopped nuts.