Fried Wheat Bread Balls (Bhatoora)
Bhatoora is a light and airy Indian fried bread, and it is generally eaten with a chickpea curry or cholle.
Ingredients
- 5 cups (650 g / 1.4 lb) wheat flour
- 1 tsp salt
- ½ tsp active dry yeast OR 1 tsp baking soda
- 2 tsp ghee
- 2 tsp sugar
- 1 cup (275 g / 9.7 oz) yoghurt
Ingredients for 5 servings (950 g) · the original recipe
Method
- 1
Sift together the flour and salt.
- 2
Mix the yeast with ½ cup lukewarm water, and keep aside for 10 minutes.
- 3
Mix the ghee and sugar with the flour. Add the yoghurt and dissolved yeast or the baking soda. A little more lukewarm water may be added if necessary. Knead well until the dough becomes soft and pliable. Use a little oil to knead well.
- 4
Cover it with a wet cloth and keep aside for 4 hours.
- 5
Heat the ghee in a frying pan.
Stovetop - 6
Make the dough into small balls. Roll the balls out very thin.
- 7
Deep fry the dough in hot ghee until golden brown. The dough should puff up a lot and develop a large airy pocket inside.
Stovetop - 8
Remove from the oil, and serve hot with channa or choley (chickpea curry).
Recipe from Wikibooks Cookbook, written by Wikibooks contributors. Used under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence; the ingredient list and method on this page are taken from that page and edited (its notes, tips and variations are not reproduced), and are available under the same licence. The macros, equipment tags and scaling are Ma Kitchen’s own and are not the source’s figures. Ma Kitchen is not affiliated with or endorsed by Wikibooks Cookbook. Copied on 2026-11-12.
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