Gheur - a Traditional Dogri Recipe

Gheur is an authentic, traditional dogri recipe from Jammu and Kashmir. Dogri people usually prepare gheur when new bride enters the house for the very first time or someone who comes home after very long time. It is like a welcome dish. Generally Gheur is served with potato curry vegetable but it can certainly be served as it is.

Ingredients:Refined Flour -

1 cup Salt - As per taste

Fresh peas - 1/2 Cup

Cumin seeds - 1/2 tsp

Oil for frying

1. Prepare a batter of refined flour and water. the consistency should neither be too thick nor too thin. Keep aside the batter for fermentation for about 1 hour.

2. Add cumin seeds and shelled peas in the batter. Mix well.

3. Heat oil in a kadai. When the oil reaches the smoking point, pour the batter with hands moving the hands to form a mesh structure. In the end make a boundary around the mesh structure using the same batter.

4. Fry only one side of gheur and using a knitting needle to remove gheur from the kadai. (Yes you heard me right. Knitting needle is used for frying instead of normal spatula.)5. Serve gheur with potato curry.