Maharashtrian Puran Poli
Maharashtrian Puran Poli
Cuisine: MaharashtrianMaharashtrian Puran Poli: Puran Poli is a traditional Maharashtrian sweet flatbread made with a filling of cooked and sweetened chana dal (split chickpeas), jaggery, and flavored with cardamom.
Ingredients
450 gms Chana Dal
500 gms Sugar (Cheeni) or Jaggery (Gud)
250 gms Wheat Flour (Gehun Ka Atta)
50 gms Flour
5 tsp Oil
1/2 grated Nutmeg (Jaiphal)
50 gms powdered Cardamom (Elaichi)
Pure ghee for serving
Directions
- Wash the chana daal and cook with a little or just enough water.
- Drain out the extra water.
- Add sugar or jaggery to the cooked daal
- And cook on low heat until the mixture becomes thick.
- Remove from heat and pass it through a sieve while still hot.
- Add grated nutmeg and cardamom powder.
- Stir well and remove from heat and keep aside to cool.
- Mix the wheat flour, flour, oil
- With enough water knead into a smooth dough.
- Keep it aside for an hour or two.
- Divide the gram daal mixture into ping pong sized balls
- And the flour dough into slightly smaller balls and roll them out a little.
- Place the gram daal ball in the centre of the rolled flour dough
- And close it to cover the filling completely.
- Roll out into a chapati and bake on a non stick tawa till done on both sides,
- Add regularly a little ghee around.
- Fry till done.
- Serve hot with pure ghee.
