Breakfast special: Mangalore Buns

Mangalore buns is a breakfast/ snack dish popular in the city of Mangalore. I used to have it during my days of working in Mangalore. It's taste is very similar to Kerala's Unniappam. You can have these buns with or without any sauce. I love having it as it is.

Ingredients:

• Atta/ Wheat flour - 2 small cups
• Small Bananas - 4
• Jaggery - 1 lump
• Curd/ Yoghurt - 2 spoons
• Baking soda - a pinch
• Ghee/ Butter - 1 spoon

Preparation:

If you want to make these buns for breakfast, you should make the dough on the previous night. If you want it for a snack, then make the dough in the morning.

• Mash the bananas to make a puree either by hand or by using a food blender. Keep it aside.
• Take the atta/ wheat flour in a large vessel and add the banana puree to it. 
• Also add the crushed jaggery lump and mix well.
• Add 2 spoons of curd/ yogurt and a pinch of soda ad knead well.
• Add little water if required.
• Add a spoon of ghee to avoid the dough from sticking to your hand.
• Make a thick/hard dough and keep it closed overnight.

• Next day you can start rolling for the buns.
• Make lemon sized balls out of the dough.
• Roll them to make small but thick roti/ pooris. They should not become thin like we roll for phulkas/ rotis.

• Use additional wheat flour to roll, to avoid the dough from sticking.
• Dust out any additional flour from the rolled dough before frying.
• Start frying in a deep pan like how we do for pooris. Do not over fry it to make it hard.

Mangalore buns have the light sweet taste which comes from the banana-jaggery mix. It is very different from most of our other breakfast recipes. Try it out this weekend and let me know if you liked it.