{"id":1303,"slug":"fried-wheat-bread-balls-bhatoora","title":"Fried Wheat Bread Balls (Bhatoora)","description":"Bhatoora is a light and airy Indian fried bread, and it is generally eaten with a chickpea curry or cholle.","ingredients_raw":["5 cups (650 g / 1.4 lb) wheat flour","1 tsp salt","½ tsp active dry yeast OR 1 tsp baking soda","2 tsp ghee","2 tsp sugar","1 cup (275 g / 9.7 oz) yoghurt"],"ingredients_norm":["wheat flour","salt","active dry yeast or tsp baking soda","ghee","sugar","yoghurt"],"steps":["Sift together the flour and salt.","Mix the yeast with ½ cup lukewarm water, and keep aside for 10 minutes.","Mix the ghee and sugar with the flour. Add the yoghurt and dissolved yeast or the baking soda. A little more lukewarm water may be added if necessary. Knead well until the dough becomes soft and pliable. Use a little oil to knead well.","Cover it with a wet cloth and keep aside for 4 hours.","Heat the ghee in a frying pan.","Make the dough into small balls. Roll the balls out very thin.","Deep fry the dough in hot ghee until golden brown. The dough should puff up a lot and develop a large airy pocket inside.","Remove from the oil, and serve hot with channa or choley (chickpea curry)."],"categories":["Bread recipes","Indian recipes","Pakistani recipes","Punjabi recipes","Recipes for flatbread","Vegetarian recipes","Fried recipes","Recipes for fritters","Recipes using baking soda","Recipes using sugar","Recipes using wheat flour"],"prep_time_minutes":null,"cook_time_minutes":null,"total_time_minutes":null,"servings":null,"yield_text":null,"difficulty":"medium","source_name":"wikibooks","source_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Fried_Wheat_Bread_Balls_(Bhatoora)","source_ref":"4517734","authors_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook:Fried_Wheat_Bread_Balls_(Bhatoora)&action=history","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","extraction_confidence":null,"content_hash":"5523fcfb245f6580a08ce2ce0b229ff0716b679f826a2941c6f4cabe16131787","created_at":"2026-08-02T14:43:02Z","updated_at":"2026-08-02T14:43:02Z","notice":null,"url":"https://recipecontextprotocol.com/recipes/fried-wheat-bread-balls-bhatoora"}