Badam Poori | Paaka Poori | Sweet Recipes
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Recipe type: Dessert
Cuisine: Indian
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Serves: 25
 
Delicious and decadent, loaded with hidden oozy sweetness in layers, badam poori
Ingredients
For dough:
  • ¼ Cup almond powder
  • 1-2 drops pure almond extract
  • A pinch of salt
  • 1 pinch soda
  • 1 pinch turmeric (optional)
  • ¼ Cup maida
  • ⅛ Cup rice flour
  • 2 Tsp ghee
For Sugar Syrup:
  • ½ Cup sugar
  • ½ Cup water
  • 5-6 elaichi/cardamom
  • 1 drop pure almond extract(optional)
  • Few strands of kesar/saffron
Method
  1. In a pan, add sugar and pour enough water to just cover the sugar
  2. Let the sugar melt and come to a boil
  3. Add powdered elaichi and a drop of pure almond extract
  4. Sugar syrup is ready when you get a 1 string consistency, add few strands of kesar/saffron keep aside
  5. In a small bowl, take maida, rice flour
  6. Add almond powder and mix well
  7. Next add 2 Tsp ghee, pure almond extract
  8. Mix the ghee into the dry ingredients until it is well incorporated
  9. Add little water, 1-2 Tbsp, start mixing
  10. Lightly knead into a soft dough, do not over-knead
  11. Grease with some ghee and set it aside for 5 minutes. Meanwhile heat oil for frying badam poori
  12. Pinch half the dough, lightly pat on a oiled surface
  13. Roll into a thin chapathi
  14. Using a 2 inch cookie or biscuit cutter, cut out rounds
  15. Repeat till the rolled out chapathi has been completely used
  16. The pooris should be quite thin
  17. Now to make the layers, fold each round into semi-circle and then into a triangle
  18. Repeat till the dough is used up
  19. When the oil is heated up, on low flame, drop few layered pooris
  20. Fry till crisp and golden
  21. Dunk the fried pooris in sugar syrup for a 2-3 minutes
  22. Remove onto serving plate. Enjoy!
Notes
Sprinkle mixture of almond powder, elaichi, desiccated coconut & powdered sugar for a different kind of finish

Adding turmeric to the dough is optional

Always fry the pooris on low flame to get golden hued crisp pooris

If sugar syrup crystallizes add 2 drops of lemon/lime juice and mix well, warm a little
Recipe by Food Of Interest at https://foodofinterest.com/badam-poori/