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