Rajgiri ki poori- Amaranth flour bread with cumin spiced potatoes-food for fasting
Rajgiri ki poori- Most of the flours flours used during Fasting and Navratri are gluten free .-Rajgiri/Amaranth flour,Kuttu ka ataa/Buckwheat flour, Sabudana /sago, Samu/ Barnyarn Millet, Singhora /water chestnut flour are few among the favorite fasting foods.today I am posting the very popular fasting food-Rajgiri ki poori
Rajgiri flour is gluten free so we need to add some kind of starch for binding the flour. I have added boiled mashed potatoes but you can also add boiled arbi/taro root or boiled raw banana for binding.
All the tuber vegetables are used during fasting days i.e Potato,Sweet potato/shakar kand,Taro root/Arbi ,Yam/suran ,Pumpkin /kaddu are the widely used vegetables.
If you are looking for more fasting recipes/vrat ka khana then do check-
Rajgiri Ki Poori With Jeera Aloo- Fasting Recipe
Ingredients
- 1.5 cup Amaranth Flour / Rajgiri Atta
- 1/2 cup Taro root/Arbi boiled and mashed
- 1 tsp Cumin seeds- 1 tsp
- 3/4 tsp Pepper powder -3/4 tsp
- to taste Salt- to taste
- to fry Cooking oil/Ghee
Instructions
- In a big and wide bowl add all the ingredients.
- Mix and mash well ,then add water and make a medium soft dough.
- Cover and rest for 5 minutes.
- Knead the dough and make small balls of equal size.
- Dust the balls with rajgiri flour and roll to make medium thick pooris/discs.
- If you have difficality in rolling the pooris then place the dough ball between two greased thick plastice sheets and then roll.
- Heat oil /ghee in a deep pan ,when become hot then gently slide the rolled poori in medium hot oil.
- Press gently with a slotted spoon ,so it will puff nicely.
- Fry from both sides till golden in colour.
- Drain on a paper napkin and serve hot
Serving suggestions-serve Poori with jeera aloo,yoghurt or raita.
Notes
*you may substitute boiled taro root with boiled potato to make rajgiri poori
libby zay says
looks delicious! i've never had a dish like this but this makes me want to try it. i was doing research on amaranth and came across your site. i linked to your blog here: http://thescoutproject.org/edible-plants-a-to-z-amaranth/
thanks and happy cooking!
Nupur UK-Rasoi says
Never tried it before.. Well, most of your recipes I havent tried.. need to get back in action now to do all 🙂
Anisha says
The poories look very tempting and the aloo jeera is one of my favourite side dishes… the pics are really nice.. 🙂
cumincoriandercardamom.com says
Looks mouth watering
M D says
This poori with aloo jeera looks so inviting and delicious. Wow!
Shanthi says
lovely pictures..yummy jeera potato…
Jaleela Banu says
wow looks amazing preparation
Chitz says
Yummily.. Both the aloo & pooris are so inviting.. How perfectly puffed is each of the puri 🙂 Loved it.. Awesome..
Priya Suresh says
Both looks fabulous, those pooris and jeera aloo seriously inviting.
Maayeka says
@Sapna rajgiri aata is made with ramdana,and you can also make these pooris with singhora(water chestnut) flour
Rafeeda AR says
i feel like just having it…
Sapana Behl says
Delicious preparation for fast!
i haven't seen Rajgiri flour here ? Is there any other name for it?
Amarendra says
The puris look very tempting. Awesome combo with Jeera Aloo.
Reshmi Mahesh says
A delicious combo…loved the spread..
Sanoli Ghosh says
pooris with jeera aloo is simply superb!
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Suja Manoj says
Love the presentation,all looks delicious.
hookingtheyarn says
the aloo subzi makes my go hungry now 🙂
you seem to have a gr8 cam, they add to the tasty food you cook.
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Vimitha Anand says
Nice combo ji…
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Preety says
omg this is making me hungry..:)
divya says
wow ..it looks fab …so tempting
Latha Madhusudhan says
Gr8 combination & I love the jeera aloo.
Nava Krishnan says
Perfect pairing, the potato dish with the puffed up poori. Goodness till the end.
Priya R says
Tempting pooris 🙂 so superb presentation
Manasi says
I love how puffed up the poori's are!
I have never tasted vrat ki poori, I am bookmarking this
Maharashtrians also make Potato subzi, just slightly different.
We incorporate peanut powder in the potatoes. A simple ghee- jeera- green chilies tadka (no asafetida), boiled potato, salt, sugar and peanut pwd! done 🙂
I hope I will be able to make your version sometime very soon, it will make a good lunch box option.
nayana says
would anytime love to fast with such a delicious dish…..
Vijayalakshmi Dharmaraj says
wow very lovely one dear…
Julie says
very tempting platter,looks yumm:)