Mangalore buns

This is a easiest recipe and one of the famous mangalorean dish.These are Mangalore Buns.They are a sort of a spongy poori made of maida or all purpose flour kneaded with mashed bananas..kinda sweet from the banana and kind of a mild kick from the black pepper.This can be served as a evening snack with coffee.This is the all time snack served in mangalore and nearby places.i hav made this with all purpose flour or maida and need some perfect standard time of almost 1 hr...or else we can make the dough a previous day before and refrigerate it.i did the same and it came perfect...

Ingredients:

1/2 cup over riped mashed bananas
2 tbl spn sugar
2 tbl spn yogurt
1/8 tea spn baking soda
1 and 1/2 cups to 2 cups wheat flour (traditionally maida is used)
1/2 tea spn cumin seeds (optional)
1/4 tea spn pepper powder (optional)
Oil
Salt

Increase sugar if you like them more sweet. With 2tbl spns they become mildly sweet.

Method:
Add sugar, salt, cumin seeds(optional), pepper(optional), soda and yogurt to mashed bananas. Mix well.
Add wheat flour and mix to make dough. The amount of flour specified is approximate, add enough to make a stiff dough.
Cover it and leave for about 2-3 hrs.
Heat oil.
Take small balls of dough and roll into small puris. Deep fry.
Serve hot.