Puri

Ingredients for Puri:

• 1 cup wheat flour
• 1/4 tsp salt 
• 1/2 cup water (or as needed to make a pliable dough). 
• Oil for deep fry

Preparation of Puri:In a bowl add wheat flour and salt together and combine well together. Add water little by little to gather to form a stiff dough.Then knead it well to form a smooth dough . 
Tips:Do not let the dough sit. Usually for rotis, I insist on letting the dough sit for some time which makes the dough very soft. But for puris do not let the dough sits for longer time which makes it prone to soaking up lots of oil while frying. Use the dough immediately to make the puris.

Separate into equal lemon sized balls(or slightly smaller).Take a ball and roll it out with rolling pins making sure the thickness is even. Don't roll it very thin like we do for rotis/chaaptis.

Do the oil-temperature test to see if it is ready. The oil should be hot but not too hot that it smokes. 

Tips: Drop a small piece of dough into the oil. The dough should fry up immediately and come to the surface. You know the oil is not hot enough when the puri does not puff up, is flat  and instead is also soaking up oil.

Now drop the puri into the oil.While the puri is slowly coming to the surface, make sure to keep ladling in the hot oil on the surface.This helps the puri to puff up.

Turn it so that it gets evenly reddish brown or golden yellow.

Place it on paper towel to drain off any excess oil.

Serve it with guguni or potato masala or side dish of your choice.