puri

1 6.8

A small round deep-fried bread from India often eaten with curries

noun
/ˈpʊəri/

: puri

For breakfast, she served puri with potatoes and spiced yogurt.
bhel puri
pani puri
batata puri

Examples

The mixture is scooped up with crisp puri crackers before it has a chance to get soggy.

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In some more user-friendly preparation, like the one served at East India Co., the chaat is deconstructed, with a dry filled puri chased with a separate shot of the herbal water for a less drippy experience.

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We enjoyed the spicy chickpea curry with soft, fluffy puri at the restaurant.
At the party, the guests loved dipping their crispy puri into the tangy tamarind chutney.

Synonyms

poori

vspuri

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A small round bread made from wheat dough and fried in oil

is used mainly with curries or vegetables rather than focusing on flour

How Spicy

vindaloo

2 4.8

chaat

2 8.6

samosa

4 3.4

puri

1 6.8

cracker

114 1.0

Surface Forms

puri singular

puris plural

Etymology

Puri comes from Hindi pūrī, which simply means 'small, round bread'. So puri today is the deep-fried bread often served with curries and vegetables.