Air Fryer Phool Mathri Recipe (Baked in Oven Too)
Air Fryer Phool Mathri is crispy, flaky and delicious, with an oven-baked option for a lighter, fuss-free snack.
Equipment
- Air Fryer & Oven
Ingredients
1 cup = 250 ml
- 2 cup Maida
- 1/4 cup semolina
- 1/4 cup oil
- 3/4 tsp carom seeds
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp black pepper powder
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
- Water as needed
Instructions
- Take all purpose flour, semolina, black pepper powder, carom seeds, baking soda, salt and oil.
- Firstly rub the flour mixture with your hand and bring it to a breadcrumbs consistency.
- Once it is done, knead a firm dough with water.
- Cover it and rest for 30 minutes.
- Now take a ball out of the dough.
- Roll it, on a clean shelf, neither too thick not too thin.
- Use a cookie cutter of your choice and mark cuts on the roti. Likewise create such mathris from the entire dough.
- Take a plucker and create dents on each mathris.
- Either deep fry them, bake or air fry.
- For air frying, arrange the mathris in the basket without overlapping one another.
- Brush or spray little oil on each one of them.
- Air fry @180°C for 7 minutes.
- Take the basket out and turn all the mathris.
- Further air fry at the same temperature and for the similar duration i.e. @180°C for 7 minutes.
- Once done, bring them out. Let them cool down completely.
- For baking in oven, bake in the preheated oven @180°C for 18-20 minutes.
- Phool Mathri are ready. Once cool down completely, store in Air tight container and serve with tea.
Video
Notes
- All purpose flour can be replaced with whole wheat flour or both in the ratio of 50:50.
- Semolina is optional but recommended, as it makes the phool Mathri more crispy.
- Oil can be replaced with desi ghee but ghee will turn the vegan snack into vegetarian.