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Mathri

Prep Time 45 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 15 minutes
Calories

Ingredients

  • Maida / All Purpose Flour: 2 cup
  • Salt: 1 tsp.
  • Baking Powder: ½ tsp.
  • Ghee / Clarified Butter: 2 tbsp.
  • Vegetable Oil: 3 tbsp.
  • Jowan / Ajwain / Carom Seed: 2 tsp.
  • Kasuri Mehti / Fenugreek leaves: 2 tsp.
  • Jeera / Cumin Seed: 1 tsp.
  • Black Pepper: 10-12 crushed
  • Refined Vegetable Oil: For deep frying

Instructions

  • Take Maida / all Purpose Flour in a big bowl along with salt and baking powder and mix them well.
  • Combine Carom Seed, dry fenugreek leaves, cumin seed and crushed black pepper to the flour mixture.
  • Now melt 2 tbsp. Ghee and 3 tbsp. vegetable oil in a pan and add the ghee-oil mixture to the flour.
  • Knead the flour until you get a sand like mixture.
  • Take around ¼th cup of water in a cup and start adding very little water to the flour mixture to get a tight but not sticky dough.
  • Cover the dough and give it a rest of 30 minutes or so.
  • Now divide the dough into 20 small balls.
  • Take one flour ball and roll it out with the help of a rolling pin into a 1.5’ thick disk.
  • Take a fork and prick in the disk all around the disk.
  • Following the process mentioned prepare Mathris using rest of the dough.
  • Heat sufficient oil in a deep bottom pan for deep frying Mathri.
  • Fry 4-5 Mathri at a time (number can be increased or decreased based on the radius of the pan) in medium flame for around 7-8 minutes till the turn golden brown in colour and crispy in texture.
  • Following the process fry remaining Mathri!
  • Mathri can be stored in airtight container for around 10 days , however , in my place I don't need to store them thanks to the husband man!

Nutrition

Serving: 20Mathri
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