Ingredients

• 2 cups - all purpose flour (maida)
• 4 tbsp - butter
• 1/2 tsp - salt
• 1/2 cup - ghee
• 2 to 3 tbsp - rice flour
• 1/2 tsp - powdered sugar and cardamom powder to sprinkle on top
• to deep fry - oil or ghee

How to Make Padra Pheni

• Mix maida, butter and salt together.
• Add enough water and make dough as for puree.
• Keep covered for 1/2 hour.
• Divide the dough into 12 parts and shape into balls.
• Roll out each ball into a thin round.
• Spread one side of each round with ghee and sprinkle lightly with rice flour.
• Stack 6 rounds together, ghee side up to make 2 stacks.
• Roll the stacks into a cylinders and cut into 2 cm thick slices.
• Roll out each slice into a puri, doubly thick than a normal puri.
• Deep fry in moderately hot oil or ghee, over a slow flame till crisp.
• Drain well, cool slightly and sprinkle both sides with powdered sugar mixed with cardamom powder.
• Cool completely and store in an air tight container.