Beet Poori with Matar Paneer Bhurji

Beetroot poori is a fried or kachori recipe it can be done in either ways. Mashed beetroots and spices as filling or along with the flour kneading the beetroot puree. Enjoy the healthy and red colored beetroot poori with your desired side dish... Adding a little chilli powder and ground cumin to this dish,tastes good.

Prep Time       : 30 mins|Cook Time      : 20 mins|Serves             : 4
Cuisine :South Indian (Breakfast)

Ingredients	Quantity
Beetroot	1 cup puree
Wheat flour	2 cups
Garam masala	1tsp
Chilli powder	2 tsp.
Cumin powder	1 tsp.
Salt	To taste
Oil	Deep frying

 Method            

1. Peel and roughly chop the beetroot. Pressure cooks it with a little water. Cool and puree the boiled beetroot along with salt, garam, chilli powder & cumin.  Blend well until you have bright pink flour.Slowly add water to the flour mixture .Make soft dough with sufficient water. If the mixture is too sticky, add a little more flour let the dough rest for 15  minutes.2. Divide the dough into lemon sized portions. Using a rolling pin, roll out each ball into a round shape. Heat oil and add the rolled poori to the oil. The poori should rise in a few seconds.3. Using a spatula, push the poori into the oil and see it puff up.Take out the poori and drain it on an absorbent paper. Repeat with the remaining dough.Beetroot poori is ready.

Notes

Serve it with  potato subzi or Matar Paneer Bhurji.

Matar Paneer bhurji

Bhurji means scrambled, so we can call this as scrambled cottage cheese.. This paneer bhurji will give good taste and also it’s a quick stuffing to roll the chapatis as well as for naans,pooris. So you can choose it for lunch box for the kids and your family. I made paneer bhurji and the output was good.Paneer Bhurji is a most popular north Indian recipe made from crumbled paneer .Paneer can be used very easily and it can give a high protein in your diet.

Prep time     : 10 mins

Cook time    :15 mins

Serves:For this quantity it only serves two of them.I had a small cube of paneer, so adjusted.

Ingredients	Quantity
Paneer/cottage cheese	1 cup
Fresh green peas	1 cup
Cumin seeds	½ tsp.
Onions	1 cup
Tomatoes	2 ½ cups
Green chillies	1 ½ tsp.
Ginger garlic paste	2 tbsp.
Turmeric powder	¼ tsp.
Garam masala powder	½  tsp.
Red chilli powder	1 tsp.
Oil	2 tbsp.
Coriander leaves	For garnishing

Method

1. First crumble the paneer and keep it aside.Heat oil in a pan. Add ginger and garlic. Sauté until raw smell leaves. 2. Next add onion and green chilies. Sauté until onion turns translucent. Reduce the flame to low and add red chili powder, turmeric powder, and coriander powder and garam masala. 3. Sauté for few seconds and add chopped peas and tomato. Cook until it is soft. 4. Finally add crumbled paneer and let them cook for some time in order to blend the spices. 5. Garnish with chopped coriander leaves and serve hot with beetroot pooris. Notes

You can add multicolor capsicum to look bhurji colorful.Don’t cook the paneer for long time it become hard.