Now take your very clean hands and start mixing it all into a nice ball. You should knead it for about ten minutes so that you have a smooth well formed dough ball.
As soon as we eat even small quantities of starchy food, insulin is secreted. It may be very small, but cumulatively it becomes too high, because the cells refuse to allow it entry. So the only way is to reduce starch intake. The doctors who have authored the book, suggest 55 gms. per day. This much we may get from tomato, lady's finger etc. So there is no need to eat starch. Avoid not only rice, but also wheat, corn etc. The eskimoes who live on meat, have none of the life style diseases, which threaten modern men and women, as never before.
This curry can be made in minutes. Teamed with a little saffron rice or chewy home made naan bread it is the perfect mid week family meal or side or main dish for an exotic dinner party.
The truth is actually somewhere between the middle. I'm of the opinion that what you put in your body is as important as what you put on it. This will not tell you what not to eat but rather what to eat for beautiful skin. So ladies make notes on how to feed your skin.
Make sure there is no cream added to the tikka masala. If you read more are having rice then have some steamed rice instead of the biryani or pileau. Ask for no Ghee to be added to the steamed rice. When you order curry this will normally be accompanied by Indian breads known as chapatti or naan.
Another variation is the Luchi. Using the same dough as the Puri, it usually more than 2 feet across, sometimes nearly a meter in diameter. Luchis are made on festive occasions and obviously require special utensils for the oil and for retrieval. Quite light in texture, they are shallow fried, not deep fried like the Puri.
Skim the solids off the top and discard. Now carefully pour the clarified butter into a plastic container. Ensure that the solids stay in the pan and do not mix with the clarified butter - ghee.