Malabar special poricha pathiri

Poricha pathiri or deep-fried pathiri is a speciality from Malabar and can be easily made at home just the way you get from restaurants and chai shops. Here’s how to make the pathiri at home.

Ingredients
1 cup pathiri powder
1 cup boiling water
2 tablespoon scraped coconut
½ teaspoon jeera
1 teaspoon ellu (sesame)
3 shallots
½ teaspoon ghee
Salt
Oil as required

Preparation
Boil water in a pan along with salt and ghee
Into the boiling water add the pathiri flour bit by bit and cook it till it turns into a dough
Keep the mix closed for about five minutes and then add crushed ingredients coconut, shallots and jeera and mix thoroughly before it turns cool
Roll out the dough, one cm in thickness and cut out rings
Heat oil and when it boils well, deep fry the pathiri rings
Drain out excess oil
The pathiri can be had all by itself or along with a curry