Bhatura 🫓 North Indian Fried Bread 🇮🇳

Description

Puffy, chewy-inside, and lightly crisp — classic chole-bhature bread you can nail at home 🫶🔥.
Hook: Simple enriched dough, 90-min rise, 40-second fry per bread ⚡

Ingredients

• 🌾 All-purpose flour: 360 g (3 cups / 12.7 oz)
• 🧂 Fine salt: 6 g (1 tsp / 0.21 oz)
• 🍬 Sugar: 8 g (2 tsp / 0.28 oz)
• 🥄 Baking powder: 3 g (½ tsp / 0.11 oz)
• 🥛 Plain yogurt (room temp): 120 g (½ cup / 4.2 oz)
• 🥛 Milk or water (lukewarm): 150–170 ml (⅔–¾ cup / 5–6 fl oz)
• 🧈 Neutral oil or melted ghee (for dough): 15 ml (1 tbsp / 0.5 fl oz)
• 🌾 Fine semolina (sooji, optional for structure): 20 g (2 tbsp / 0.7 oz)
• 🛢 Neutral oil for deep-frying

Preparation

1. 1️⃣ Make dough: Whisk flour, salt, sugar, baking powder (and semolina if using). Add yogurt, then milk/water gradually with oil to form a soft, slightly tacky dough.
2. 2️⃣ Knead & rest: Knead 8–10 min until smooth. Cover and rest 60–90 min (dough relaxes and puffs slightly).
3. 3️⃣ Portion & roll: Divide into 10–12 balls. Rest 10 min. Roll each to 14–15 cm (5½–6 in) rounds, 3–4 mm thick; keep covered so they don’t dry.
4. 4️⃣ Fry: Heat oil to 185–190°C (365–375°F). Slide in one round; gently splash hot oil over the top — it should puff in 5–7 s. Flip and fry 10–15 s more to pale golden. Drain on a rack.
5. 5️⃣ Serve immediately with Chole (chickpea curry) or any curry and pickle.

Total Time

🕒 Prep: 15 min (+ rest 60–90 min)

🔥 Cook: 10–12 min

⏳ Total: ~25 min active

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