Ingredients

• 2 cups - maida
• 3 - potatoes
• 2 - carrots peeled and chopped into small pieces
• 1/2 cup - peas
• 2 - onions, chopped
• 2 tsp - pepper powder
• 50 g - butter
• 1/2 tsp - baking powder
• 1/2 kg - oil for frying
• Salt to taste
• 1 tsp - chilli powder
• 1/2 tsp - garam masala powder
• 2 tsp - chopped coriander leaves
• 1 tsp - chopped ginger.

How to Make Vegetable Puffs

• Sift the flour with a tsp of salt and baking powder.
• Mix the butter with the flour and knead into a stiff dough using very little water and keep aside.
• Heat 2 tbsp oil in a pan, saute the chopped ginger and onions lightly.
• Add all the vegetables, chilli powder, pepper powder, coriander leaves, garam masala and salt.
• Add a little water.
• Stir well and cook on low heat till the vegetables are cooked and all the water dries up.
• Remove and keep aside to cool.
• Now take the prepared pastry dough onto a floured board and roll out into a thin sheet.
• Cut rounds of about 10 cm diameter with a saucer.
• Put a little of the cooked vegetable mix on one half of the rounds and fold the other half over.
• Seal the edges by dampening with a little water.
• Prepare the puffs.
• Heat oil for frying in a fairly deep pan till smoky.
• Deep-fry till crisp and brown on both sides.
• Remove from the oil and drain.
• Serve hot.