Perfect Instant Homemade Bhatura Recipe | How to Make Bhatura (2024)

Perfect Instant Homemade Bhatura Recipe | How to Make Bhatura

ByAnshu-May 15, 2020

Bhatura is a leavened, puffed deep fried bread made from Maida or All Purpose Flour. A popular recipe from the Punjabi cuisine, it is mainly served with spiced chickpea curry such as Pindi Chholey and Amritsari Chholey.

Traditionally, bhatura is made using fermented dough, which is rested for minimum of 6 hours and has a peculiar tang to it. However, when you are short of time and crave for this delicious Chole Bhatura combo, these instant bhaturas come to your rescue. Quick and easy to prepare, they use Eno Fruit Salt as the leavening agent and trust me, that lends the bhaturas with that perfect crispness on outside and perfect fluffiness on the inside. If you can't lay your hands on eno, alternatively, you also have the option to use baking powder and baking soda. Without wasting any time further, let's start with the recipe.

Perfect Instant Bhatura Recipe | How to Make Bhatura

INGREDIENTS

  • Maida/All Purpose Flour - 2 cups
  • Sooji/Semolina - 2 tbsp
  • Salt - 1 tsp
  • Vegetable oil - 1 tbsp + for deep frying
  • Eno Fruit Salt - 1 tsp (else, 1/2 tsp baking powder and 1/4 tsp baking soda)
  • Sour curd - 1/4 cup
  • Sugar - 1 tsp
  • Warm water - 1/2 cup + 2 to 3 tbsp if required
Perfect Instant Bhatura Recipe | How to Make Bhatura

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Perfect Instant Bhatura Recipe | How to Make Bhatura

METHOD

  • Combine flour, semolina, sugar and salt in a mixing bowl (if using baking powder and baking soda, this is the time to add them to the dry mixture).
  • Make a well in the center of the flour mix and add in yogurt as well as oil.
  • Mix nicely using your hands.
  • Now, sprinkle eno fruit salt and start adding warm water little by little. Knead a soft dough. Knead nicely for 5 to 7 minutes until it is completely smooth. it may feel sticky initially so, smear your hands with little oil and keep kneading. It would come together in couple of minutes.
  • Smear the dough with some oil, cover and rest it for 15 minutes.
  • Sufficiently heat oil in a kadai.
  • Once the dough has rested, pinch out lemon sized balls. Grease the platform and roll out each ball into 4 to 5 inch diameter discs or in oblong shape, whichever you like. Do not use any dry flour to roll the bhaturas.
  • Slide the bhatura in hot oil. Press down with a spatula so that it puffs up completely. Turn and fry on the other side as well until nice golden.
  • Serve the puffed bhaturas immediately with spicy chholey.

Note that heat has to be constantly on high so that all bhaturas puff nicely. Also, do not make bhatura with whole wheat flour; I mean you can make it but, the taste and texture would be completely different.


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FAQs

Why is my bhatura not puffing? ›

Check if the oil is hot by dropping a small portion of the dough. The dough has to rise without browning. But ensure the oil is hot enough otherwise bhaturas will turn very oily, may not puff well and may collapse after frying.

Why is baking soda added to bhatura? ›

For leavening the dough, both baking soda and yogurt are used. The dough just needs to be kept for 2 hours to leaven and thus takes less time. After 2 hours when the dough is leavened, you can then begin with rolling and deep-frying.

Can we use eno instead of baking soda in bhatura? ›

Baking soda releases carbon dioxide only on heating and that's the reason why it is used in cooking where we need the food to rise. If eno is used in place of baking soda, ask the reaction will be over in no time and the dough will not rise. Yes we can use Eno for bhatura..

What is the ingredients of Chola bhatura? ›

Recipe of Authentic Choley Bhature
  • 5 Bay leaves.
  • 1 tsp Black peppercorns.
  • 7 Cloves.
  • 3 Big cardamom.
  • 3 tbsp Tea leaves.
  • 1 tsp Coriander seeds.
  • 2 tsp Salt.

Why is curd added to bhaturas? ›

Curd is an important ingredient of rava idlis and bhaturas as it contains Lactobacillus bacteria that undergo anaerobic respiration and in this process act on sugar of the flour and release carbon dioxide gas. This makes the dough rise making the bhatura or idli soft and spongy.

Why did bhatura dough smell sour? ›

Yeast respire through an anaerobic process. produces alcohol and C O 2 during anaerobic respiration. Because of this alcohol, it smells sour.

Is bhatura good for health? ›

No, this recipe is not good for diabetics, heart and weight loss. This recipe uses plain flour or maida which is refined carb not suitable for healthy lifestyle.

What is the substitute for baking soda in pakoras? ›

Self-rising flour contains baking powder and salt, so it may be used to replace baking soda in some recipes. Keep in mind that you'll need to adjust certain ingredients.

Which is better, eno or baking soda? ›

Same goes for Eno, it is a fruit salt with 60% sodium. So, Eno is better than soda if we add it to cheela, idli or cake rather than adding pure soda.

What is the equivalent of Eno in the US? ›

(i.e for 1 tsp eno = 1/2 tsp baking soda + 1/2 tsp citric acid).

What is a substitute for Eno at home? ›

Fennel seeds can give you relief from other indigestion symptoms like gas and bloating, too. Add one teaspoon of crushed fennel seeds to a cup of hot water and let it steep for eight to 10 minutes. Remove from heat, allow it to cool and strain it. Add a little honey and drink it slowly.

What is the best combination for bhatura? ›

what is bhatura served with? bhatura is usually served with sliced onion, lemon wedges, and spicy chickpea curry, chana masala, or chole masala. the combination of these two makes an ideal meal. generally, chole bhatura is eaten with yogurt based beverage lassi.

Which is better puri or bhatura? ›

Many people get confused and don't know the actual difference between a 'Puri, and 'Bhatura'. It's just simple, puri is made of whole wheat flour (atta flour) and is small in size and Bhatura is made of all-purpose flour adding baking powder and yogurt to give a sweet and salty taste and is huge in…

Is naan and bhatura dough same? ›

Bhatura is deep-fried naan bread,” the chef says, adding that yogurt is used in the dough as a raising agent. The crisp, puffed-up bread is predominaantly eaten for breakfast alongside chana masala (chickpea stew). The leavened bread originated in the state of Punjab.

Why is my dough not puffing? ›

Let your dough proof at a high temperature (80–90°F or 27–32°C) and high humidity (about 75%) for at least 1 to 3 hours, as heat and moisture will make your dough rise faster. Add more yeast, blend in the starter, or knead in more flour to help initiate rising.

Why is my roti not puffing? ›

Cooking Surface Temperature: The tawa or griddle should be hot but not smoking. A medium-high heat is generally ideal. If it's too hot, the roti will cook too quickly on the outside and the starch will be too firmly set to expand. If it's not hot enough, it won't create enough steam inside the roti to make it puff.

Why don t my puris puff up? ›

Frying : For the pooris to puff well, oil has to be hot enough. If you fry them in oil that is not hot enough then they will soak up oil and won't puff. So do the heat test by simply dropping a small flat piece of dough to the hot oil. It has to rise immediately without turning brown.

What makes dough puff? ›

As yeast cells feed on sugars, they produce carbon dioxide gas and ethyl alcohol in a chemical process known as fermentation. The carbon dioxide gas released by the process of fermentation gets trapped in the sticky, elastic dough, causing it to “puff up" or rise.

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