Pooran Poli is my all time favorite, but i never used to get it right. Either it it was too thick else the pooran will run out. My Chinna paati (grandma’s younger sister) had come from Bangalore last weekend. She is very good in making polis. Got the recipe from her and tada!!!! the poli came out fabulously 🙂
Ingredients
Tuvar dhal – 1/4 cup
Channa Dhal – 3/4 cup
Shredded dry coconut or fresh coconut – 1 cup
Jaggery – 2 cups
Maida – 3 cups
Salt a pinch
Oil – 1 cup
turmeric powder – 1/4 tsp
ghee
Cardamom powder – 1 tsp
Method
Mix the maida with salt and turmeric powder. form a soft dough using ample water and the oil. Let the dough rest for 2 to 3 hrs.
Boil both the dhals. Make sure that the cooked dhal is dry by filtering the water from the dhal through a colander. Grind the dhal to a smooth paste. Heat the jaggery with little water till it melts and filter the impurities. Now the add the melted jaggery with the dhal paste in a kadai and keep mixing till it thickens. Add in the coconut and cardamom powder and remove from fire and let it cool.
Make uniform balls out of the maida dough and the pooran dough. Keep an oiled plastic sheet and place a maida ball on it and pat it evenly to make a circle. To get a thin poli, you have to press this small circle, from the end keeping the middle portion thick. Fill it with pooran balls. Gather the edges and seal it. Invert it and keep patting and pressing to make a thin poli.
Heat the pan on medium heat. Pour few drops of ghee and put the poli. Add few more drops of ghee while turning to other side. Mouth watering poli is ready.
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