Biscuit Rotti

Biscuit Roti is a popular snack recipe from Mangalore - Udupi region. Serve this crispy puri filled with spicy and delicious stuffing with a cup of hot tea as a tea-time snack.

Ingredients

For the outer covering:

1 cup maida

Salt to taste

Water as needed to knead the dough

3-4 tsp hot oil

For the stuffing:

1 tsp oil

1 tsp mustard

chopped curry leaves

2 tbsp grated coconut

2 tbsp Rava

3 tsp urad dal

1/2 tsp hing/asafoetida pdr

2 chopped green chillies

2-3 tsp sambar powder

Chopped coriander leaves

Salt to taste

1/2 tsp sugar

Oil for deep frying

Procedure

• Take maida, salt in a bowl and pour hot oil on it and mix with your fingers

• Add water and make a stiff dough and keep covered for 15 mins

• In a pan heat oil for the stuffing and add mustard, when it splutters, add curry leaves, green chillies and fry for 3 mins

• Add grated coconut followed by Rava, urad dal n hing and fry on a low flame

• Now add sambar powder, salt,sugar and mix well

• Add chopped coriander leaves, switch off the gas and allow it to cool

• you can keep this stuffing in the fridge for 10 - 15 days

• Divide the dough into portions and roll each portion into a poori

• stuff it with 2 tsp of stuffing,cover it and again roll into a thick poori

• Heat oil and deep fry it on a medium flame into crisp pooris

• Serve hot with coffee.