Mangalore Buns

A nice recipe to try, mildly sweet with a hint of banana flavour.  This is a popular Mangalore recipe.  A regular feature in our Saraswat household.  Well, that is what our grannies would make often.  But as time flew we hardly make it that much, call it health reasons or our busy schedules.  I made it recently and had been meaning to post it, but kept pushing it down the line and posted other goodies.  So let me not take this talk any further but get to the recipe.

INGREDIENTS:

Bananas (long variety & ripe)	2
Sugar	2-3 tsp
All purpose flour (maida)	3/4 cup
Whole wheat flour (atta)	3/4 cup
Baking powder	1/2 tsp
Salt	A pinch
Water	To knead
Oil	To fry

METHOD:

1.       In a bowl, mash the bananas and add sugar, salt and mix well.

2.       To this banana mixture add the flours and baking powder and mix again till well combined.

3.       Add water as required to knead into a stiff dough.  Cover and keep this dough aside to rest for about an hour.

4.       Heat oil in a wok and fry the puris one by one till golden brown.

NOTES:

1.       With this measure I got 18 medium sized puris.

2.       You could make them like rotis and smear them with a tsp of ghee on each side.

3.       You could add cumin seeds (just about a 1/2 a tsp) or ground cardamom if you like a little different flavour.