Malabar Style Ney Pathiri Recipe (Fried Masala Rice Puri)
Malabar Style Ney Pathiri Recipe (Fried Masala Rice Puri) is a dish that is made from pathiri which is a bread that is popular in Kerala. Pathiri is made using rice flour and is then cooked on a griddle. But in this recipe, the pathiri is deep fried in oil thus the name “Ney Pathiri” in which “ney” means “oil”. The ground onion and cumin seeds are added to the rice flour dough and then rolled to form puris. The recipe uses rice flour but you can use soaked rice as well and then ground to smooth powder to make the pathiri.
Ingredients
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1 1/2 cup Rice flour
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Salt
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to taste
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Oil
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for frying the pathiris
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To Grind
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1 Onion
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chopped
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1 teaspoon Cumin seeds (Jeera)
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4 tablespoons Fresh coconut
Instructions
Step 1
To begin making the Malabar Style Ney Pathiri Recipe, we will first grind the chopped onion, cumin seeds and coconut to a coarse paste and set aside
Step 2
Take a sauce pan, add rice flour, salt to taste, ground onion paste and add about 1/2 cup of water and mix well till there are no lumps
Step 3
Keep the rice mixture on medium heat and keep stirring until the rice is cooked and it comes together
Step 4
Once the dough has thickened to form a dough
Step 5
You can switch off the heat and take the dough out and spread it on a plate to cool down
Step 6
Heat a kadai with oil to fry the puris
Step 7
Take out a small ball of dough and roll it flat not too thin
Step 8
Flatten it and roll it again to about 1 centimeter thickness
Step 9
Fry the puri when the oil becomes hot
Step 10
Keep flipping it over and fry it so that it evenly get browned on both the side
Step 11
Take the puri out and strain it over a napkin
Step 12
Do the rest for the remaining ingredients
Step 13
Serve the Malabar Style Ney Pathiri Recipe (Fried Masala Rice Puri) along with Kurma, Kerala Style Egg Roast Curry to make it a complete meal