Color Mania #3: Pink Poori

Pink poori!!!! That sounds crazy and exciting na ;)

Using beets was a quick thought that came up in my mind when I decided to play with colors in food. ;)

So I had to get a little unusual with it to make it more interesting. Was wondering if it would work out. But it really did. It tasted so good and the light pink look was so cute and attractive ;)

Color Mania #3: Pink

Did you know?

• Pink signifies happiness and joy
• Cheap dyes, made from the madder root, were used to produce the color pink
  
• The pink ribbon is an internationally recognized symbol of hope and awareness in the fight against breast cancer.
• Jaipur City is a foremost tourist attraction in India because of its superlative forts and its distinguished pink color to which the city owes its oft-used name "The Pink City".
• Pinkie finger is the smallest finger on the human hand
• Pink slip refers to the notice that employment is ending
• Pink Collar refers to a particular class of jobs filled only by women
  
• The color pink has always been closely associated with ladies and young girls.
  
• In Japan, the color pink has a masculine association.
• Pastries taste better when they come out of pink boxes or served on pink plates (it only works with sweets). Pink makes us crave sugar. Try to use this secret when you make pastries next time ;)
  

I have a big collection of watches and the best and treasured one is my Pink strapped watch ;) and my blog is pinky pink ;)

Ingredients:

Beetroot - 1
Wheat flour - 1 cup
All purpose flour - 1 cup
Sooji/ Rava - 1/4 cup
Chilly powder - 2 tsp (according to your taste)
Sugar - 1 tsp
Salt - for taste

Method:

Chop and cook the beetroot. Grind and strain it to get the extract.

Now take all the dry ingredients in a bowl and make dough by adding the beetroot extract. Bring it to a poori dough consistency.

Roll into small balls. Press them in the poori press and fry in hot oil to make pooris.

The sooji and the sugar would do the magic of keeping the pooris puffed up for some time. :)

The beets give the lovely pink shade but do not worry, its a subtle flavor and would not affect the taste of the poori. Chilly powder makes the poori spicy and adds to the color too :)

You can also make chapathi with the same dough. Believe me, the color showed off so well in chapathi.

I am really sad that the color does not show off much in the pictures. May be I should have used white background. :( Anyways it does show off in real.

You can serve this with any kind of subzi or chutney.

I made Chocho(chayote) chutney.

Ingredients:

Mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp
Urad dhall - 1 tsp
Chocho - 1 full
Onion - 1
Green chillies - 3
Coconut scrapped - 3 tblsp
Tamarind extract - 1 tblsp
Salt - for taste

Method:

Take a tsp of oil in a pan and add mustard and urad dhall. Once it splutters, add chopped onions, green chillies and chocho and fry for a while. Now grind it with all the other ingredients.

Chocho chutney is ready.

You can serve this with poori or even with rice. :)

Written by: Nithya
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