Poli Recipe | How to make Puran Poli Step by Step pictures

This is one sweet that my mom makes often . This recipe is also made by my mom when I was in India , and I was only clicking pictures . Check out my Sweets recipes by clicking here .

Poli Recipe | How to make Puran Poli Step by Step pictures

Ingredients:

To Make the dough :

• Maida / All purpose flour - 200 gms
• Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
• Salt - a pinch
• Oil - 1 tbsp

To make the filling inside the dough :

• Jaggery / Vellam - 200 gms
• Channa Dal / Kadalai paruppu - 200gms
• Cardamom pods - 3 pods , Crushed

For Frying:

• Oil OR Ghee - Few drops 

Poli Recipe | How to make Puran Poli Step by Step pictures

Method:

Pressure Cook the Channa dal  by adding some water for 2 hisses .  Drain the water  .

 

Transfer the channa dal  to the mixer and grind it to a coarse paste . Set aside  .

Mean while , Take a bowl , add the all purpose flour , turmeric powder , salt and add water and mix well to make a sticky dough. Apply oil generously and set aside for 2 hours .

Take the jaggery in a cooking vessel , sprinkle some water and melt the jaggery . Add the cardamom pods to the jaggery .

Transfer the ground coarse channa dal paste to the jaggery and mix well .

Cook till they become a thick paste .

Take a plastic paper or a butter paper , apply some oil in the paper . Take a small dough from the all purpose flour  and press it , add make a small ball of the jaggery paste for the filling  and place it on the dough .

Cover the filling with the dough  and make a small ball shape .

Press it gently with the hand to make a flat bread .

Heat a iron pan , or a flat pan . Transfer the pressed poli to the pan and sprinkle some Oil or Ghee around the poli .

Cook till it has brown spots and flip to the other side and cook similarly .

Serve hot .

Yummy Poli is ready!

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Notes :

• Wheat flour could be used to make the dough as well .
• Grated coconut could be added when making the filling inside the dough .

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