PURAN POLI

Festivals are incomplete without good food and sweet delights that simply add life to the festive spirit. Puran Poli is a Maharashtrian recipe. Make this during the occassion of Ganesh Chaturthi.
Made with chana dal, flour, nutmeg, cinnamon, cardamom and Jaggary .


Ingrediens:
1-1/2 cup chana daal
1-1/2 cup grated jaggary
2 cup wheat flour
1 cup all purpose flour
2 tbsp ghee
1/2 tsp cardamom powder
Pinch of nutmeg powder
Pinch of salt
1/2 tsp turmeric powder
1/2 tsp cinnamon powder
Ghee & oil for fry

Method:

1. For preparing this recile take a bowl and mix both flour with water, salt & ghee in it. Knead well to make a stiff dough. Cover the dough and keep aside for 1 hour. 

2. Now take a pressure cooker and add chana dal and water in it. Put the cooker on the gas and heat it over high flame. Pressure cook the dal and once it's done, strain the excess water.

3. Transfer the dal in a bowl and allow it to cool. Once the dal has cooled, add it in a pan and heat it over moderate flame.

4.  Add jaggary along & keep stirring. Cook on low flame till the gram mixture is soft and sticky. Once it's done, turn off the flame and keep the mixture aside.

5. Now knead the dough again, by adding oil, little at a time, till the dough becomes pliable. 

6. Grind the dal and jaggary mixture to a smooth consistency.

7. Add cardamom powder, cinnamon powder and nutmeg powder.

8. Now take a lime-sized lump of the dough and a little larger lump of the dal mixture. Roll out two rounds from the dough on a board sprinkled with  flour, into flat rounds of about 7 inch in diameter.

8. Cover the rolled dough round with the dal mixture, leaving half an inch at the edges, and then cover this with the second round. Roll again over this to seal them together, pinching the edges to seal well. Roll out like a thick chapati.

9. Heat ghee on a hot griddle and put the puran poli on it. Keep pressing and turning it so that it cooks well on both sides. Keep adding ghee all around to brown it evenly without sticking to the griddle. Serve hot and pair with tea or coffee.

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