Mangalore Buns

Name: Mangalore Buns
Total time: 900 s
Yield: 10 servings
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 3 cups All purpose flour; 2 medium size over ripen Banana; 1/4 cup Yoghurt or Curd; 1/2 teaspoon whole Cumin seeds; 2 teaspoon Sugar; 1/2 teaspoon Salt; 1 pinch Baking Soda; as needed Vegetable oil to deep fry the puris

Sabrina Yasmin @barak_kitchen

Riyadh

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Mangalore buns are very popular breakfast recipe of Udupi-Mangalore region of Karnataka. It is actually a kind of poori made of all purpose flour and banana . Hence Mangalore buns are also called banana puri. These buns or puris are also enjoyed as tea time snack.

Sabrina Yasmin @barak_kitchen

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Ingredients

15 minutes

10 servings

3 cupsAll purpose flour
2 medium size over ripen Banana
1/4 cupYoghurt or Curd
1/2 teaspoonwhole Cumin seeds
2 teaspoonSugar
1/2 teaspoonSalt
1 pinchBaking Soda
as neededVegetable oil to deep fry the puris

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Steps

15 minutes

1

Take 2 over ripen bananas.
2

Peel, put in a plate and add 2 teaspoon sugar.
3

With a fork mash banana with sugar to a smooth paste.
4

Add yoghurt or curd, salt, cumin and baking soda.
5

Mix with the fork so that everything combine well to make a uniform paste.
6

Add all purpose flour. Don't add all at a time, first add 2 cups.
7

Incorporate the flour in the banana mixture and knead to make a soft, little sticky dough. Add more flour while kneading as necessary. I use total 3 cups of flour.
8

Cover and keep aside for 8 hours or overnight to ferment.
9

Next morning or after 8 hours take out the dough. The colour of the dough will be little brown because of banana.
10

Take lemon size portion of dough, make balls for the puris.
11

Roll each ball to make thick puri.
12

Heat sufficient oil to fry the puris.
13

Fry each puri in hot oil until golden brown and crisp.
14

Like this fry all the puris or buns in medium heat.
15

Serve these Mangalore buns or puris with coconut chutney or any other chutney of your choice and a cup of coffee.