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Every Saturday morning, it is always, Pooris for Breakfast, Honey? To go with the pooris, it is either tomato shorva or chicken shorva.

A few weeks ago, I was on phone with my sister-in-law.  We talked about my blog and then she asked what we had for lunch. When I told her what we had for brunch, she was curious if i would put that in my blog.  I said, I might and then she suggested pooris & pitla.  She suggested doing a combination like poori and pitla.  

The only problem was, I never made pitla before, although I had an idea how it is prepared.   When growing up it was always potato and poori or shorva and poori combination and now it is always shorva and poori.  

I searched for pitla recipes online, but did not find what I was looking for.  So, I called up one of our aunt's cook in India and got the recipe from him.  I made it for brunch this past Saturday.

Tamata Shorva Recipe

You can find tamata shorva recipe here.

Poori Recipe

Cooking Time: 20 minutes
Yields: 15

Poori Ingredients

• 1 cup Wheat flour or Atta Flour
• Pinch of Salt
• Oil for deep frying

Poori Instructions

• Mix salt and flour and make a dough using some water. Let it sit for at least 10 minutes before rolling out the pooris. Meantime, we can prepare the curry for the pooris.
• Make small balls from the dough and using some flour or oil, roll the small dough balls into a circle. During my last visit to India, my mom had a new method to make pooris. She rolled the dough into a big circle like a roti and cut it into 4 quarters. She says this method is faster.
• Deep fry the poories in hot oil. Make sure oil is very hot to avoid oily pooris. Remove from oil and drain the pooris on a paper towel.
• Serve hot with pitla, tomato shorva or chicken shorva.

Pitla Recipe

Pitla is a potato and onion curry made with a gram flour or besan base.

Total Time:20 Minutes
Serves: 4-5

Pitla Ingredients

• 1 tablespoon Oil
• 1 teaspoon Urad Dal
• ½ teaspoon Mustard Seeds
• ½ Jeera
• 5 Green Chilies chopped
• 1 Big Onion sliced and diced or 2 cups of cut Onions
• 1 Potato cut in to small pieces or 1 cup cut Potato pieces
• ½ teaspoon Turmeric Powder
• 2 tablespoon Gram Flour or Besan
• ¼ cup Milk (opt)
• Salt to Taste
• Cilantro for garnish

Pitla Instructions

• In a pan heat oil. Add mustard, urad dal and jeera. When mustard starts to pop and splutter, add onion and fry until translucent. Add potatoes and turmeric powder and cook until potatoes are ¾th cooked. Add a little water if the curry is burning.
• Mix besan with some water or milk. Add this mixture to the potaoes and stir well. Add 2 cups of water, cover the pan and cook until potatoes completely cooked and very soft and mushy.
• Continue to cook the pitla until the liquid or the sauce thickly coats the spoon.
• Garnish with Cilantro.