Indori Poha Recipe | Famous Street Style Breakfast Recipe
Indori Poha is a style of making Poha or flattened rice like how it's made in Indore. Here is How to make Indori Poha.
Ingredients
For Mixing Together
- 2 Cups Thick Poha
- 1/4 tsp Turmeric Powder
- 1 tsp Sugar or as per taste
- Salt to taste
Other Ingredients :
- 2 tbsp Oil
- 1 tsp Mustard Seeds
- 1 tsp Fennel Seeds
- 1 Green Chilli chopped
- 7-8 Curry Leaves
- 1 tsp Jeeravan Masala
- 1/4 Cup Onion chopped
- 1/4 Cup Pomegranate Seeds optional
- 1/4 Cup Ratlami Sev
- 2 tbsp Coriander Leaves chopped
- 1 tbsp Lemon Juice
Instructions
- Wash the poha nicely and soak in water until it is softened.
- Do not over soak otherwise poha will become mushy.
- Drain the water from the poha and keep it aside.
- Sprinkle turmeric powder, sugar and salt as required in the poha. You can add less or more sugar as per your taste preferences.
- Just lightly mix with a spoon or with clean hands.
- Heat oil in a heavy kadai or pan. Keep flame to low or medium-low and add mustard seeds and let them crackle.
- Then curry leaves and fennel seeds. Let them splutter.
- Add 1 green chili (chopped). stir and sauté for a few seconds.
- Keep flame to low and add the poha.
- Gently mix poha with the tempered ingredients till the color of poha changes to light yellow.
- Cover kadai or pan with lid and on a low flame steam poha for about 1 to 2 minutes.
- After 1 to 2 minutes remove the lid and stir again. Switch off the flame.
- Now take the hot poha in a plate.
- Top with some chopped onions and chopped coriander leaves.
- Sprinkle jeeravan masala on top. You can add 1 to 2 pinches of jeeravan masala or more. Jeeravan masala is spicy so add accordingly depending upon how much spicy food you like.
- Add pomegranate arils. Top with Ratlami sev.
- Squeeze some drops of lemon juice from top.
- Assemble poha in a similar way in plates and then serve indori poha.
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Notes
- In Winter season you can also add fresh Peas also.