easy instant chole bhature recipe | chole bhatura recipe with soda water
Recipe Snapshot
- Prep time: 30 minutes
- Cook time: 15 minutes
- Total time: 45 minutes
- Yield: 10 Servings
- Category: Breakfast
- Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients
- 2½ cups maida / plain flour / all-purpose flour / refined flour
- ½ cup rava / semolina / sooji
- 1 tsp sugar
- ½ tsp salt
- 1 tbsp oil
- 1 cup soda water (room temperature)
- oil for deep frying
- 1 cup chana masala / chole masala (for serving)
Method
- firstly, in a large mixing bowl take 2½ cups maida.
- add in ½ cup rava. rava helps to make bhatura soft from inside and crisp from outside.
- also add 1 tsp sugar, ½ tsp salt and 1 tbsp oil.
- combine well making sure everything is combined well.
- now add ½ cup of soda water.
- knead the dough well adding more soda water as required.
- prepare smooth and soft dough. do not make too soft dough as it absorbs oil.
- cover the dough with moist cloth and rest for 30 minutes or more.
- after 30 minutes, knead dough slightly and pinch a small ball sized dough and flatten.
- roll the dough evenly into circles using rolling pin dusting maida as required.
- further, roll and get to a circular shape. roll neither too thin nor too thick.
- when the oil is very hot, drop one bhatura and, press with the spoon to puff up.
- also once they begin to puff, splash oil over the bhatura till they puff completely.
- flip over and fry the bhatura till golden brown all over.
- then drain the bhatura onto tissue paper to remove excess oil.
- finally, serve instant bhatura with chana masala / chole masala.
Kiyaan Singh’s Kitchen Note
Keep this recipe as a working base: cook once as written, then adjust spice, texture, and serving style for your own table.