puran poli

Puran Poli

             Poli is very popular and traditional dish. In my aunt home they used to prepare poli for telugu new year. Already i have posted one version of mangalore poli . this is another version of puran poli . Try the different taste and enjoy it.

Ingredients needed

•    Maida -1 cup
•    Oil - 2 tbsp (sesame seed oil)
•    yellow food colour - 1 pinch

   For the stuffing

•    Bengal gram/channa dal/kadalai paruppu -1/2 cup
•    Jaggery - 3/4 cup
•    Coconut (grated) 1/4 cup
•    Ghee - 1 tsp
•    Cardamom powder- 1/4 tsp 
•    Plantain leaf

Method:
How to make outer dough:

• Make a soft dough by mixing flour, yellow food color and needed water. 

• Knead it, add 2 tbsp oil and keep it covered for 3-4 hours. Let it remain soaked in oil.

How to make Poli stuffing: 

• Wash and soak bengal gram (kadalai paruppu) for half an hour.

• Pressure cook bengal gram dal with water (add enough water to cover the dal) for 2 whistles.

• In a bowl, add grated jaggery and just enough water to soak the jaggery. Cook on low heat until the jaggery dissolves. Once it gets dissolves, filter the impurities.

• Drain off excess water from the bengal gram. In a pan, add the filtered jaggery water, cooked bengal gram dal, grated coconut and a tsp of ghee.

• Cook on medium heat stirring continuously until it leaves the sides of the pan.

• Leave it to cool. Then grind it to a slightly smooth paste adding cardamom powder. Now our stuffing for poli is ready.

How to make poli:

• Divide the stuffing into gooseberry sized balls. Grease a plantain leaf with oil. Take a small ball of dough and place it on the plantain leaf.

• Grease your fingers with oil and flatten the dough with your fingers to form a small circle.

• Place a small ball of poli stuffing at the center and seal it on all sides forming a small ball.

• Now flatten the ball with the stuffing inside to form a thin small circle.

• Grease the tawa slightly with ghee and heat it. Now invert the plantain leaf with the poli over the tawa as seen in the picture below.

• After a few seconds, gently remove the plantain leaf.

• Now cook the poli both the sides until golden brown on very low heat.

• Once cooked, apply ghee all over the surface and remove from heat.

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