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Its a sweet stuffed flat bread. The stuffing is made up of Chana dal and jaggrey. Its super delicious and very feeling.
Puran Poli - Stuffed Sweet Indian Bread is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They are nice and they look wonderful. Puran Poli - Stuffed Sweet Indian Bread is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook puran poli - stuffed sweet indian bread using 7 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Puran Poli - Stuffed Sweet Indian Bread:
- Prepare 1 cup pigeon peas Split yellow (toor dal)
- Prepare 2 tablespoons butter Clarified (ghee)
- Prepare 1 & 1/3 cups Sugar
- Prepare 1 & 1/2 cups Wheat flour
- Prepare 1/4 teaspoon Saffron
- Take 1 teaspoon cardamom Green powder
- Get 1/4 teaspoon Nutmeg powder
Puran Poli also known as holige or bobbattlu is a sweet lentil stuffed Indian flat bread. What makes this bread surpass every other Indian stuffed bread that you have ever eaten? May be, it is the subtly caramelized sweetness of jaggery that gets ever so lightly smoked on a griddle? Puran poli are traditional Indian flatbreads stuffed with flavored and sweetened lentils.
Instructions to make Puran Poli - Stuffed Sweet Indian Bread:
- Mix 1 cup of split yellow pigeon peas with 2 cups of water. Put it in a vessel and pressure cook it for 2-3 whistles with some water in pressure cooker.
- Churn the dal with a hand blender.
- Add the blended mixture in a round bottom pan on a slow or medium flame.
- Once it is hot, add sugar. Stir it well till the sugar melts.
- Reduce the flame and let the mixture heat up for some time.
- In a mixing bowl, take 1 & 1/2 cup of wheat flour. Add 1 & 1/2 tbsp. of clarified butter (ghee) Add water and knead the dough for a roti.
- Roll a little bit of clarified butter over the dough so that it doesn't dry out. Keep the dough aside for 10-15 minutes.
- Once the dal mixture is boiling hot, add few saffron sprigs. Stir the mixture continuously so that it doesn't stick to the bottom of the pan.
- Once the mixture thickens, add all the powdered flavourings (green cardamom powder, nutmeg powder and 1 tbsp. clarified butter.) Stir well.
- After the mixture thickens completely and is difficult to stir, its ready. Keep it aside for some time and let it cool down completely.
- Once it cools down, take 1 inch small balls out of the mixture.
- Make small round ball (bigger than that of the mixture balls) of the dough as well and roll them into a small roti.
- Place the sweet mixture ball in the centre of the roti and cover it by overturning the roti. Cut the edges with a sharp edged bowl and roll again carefully.
- Cook the roti by applying clarified butter (ghee) on both the sides and flipping it over the pan as required.
- Serve the rotis with clarified butter (ghee) or milk.
The outer covering is made with wheat flour or all-purpose flour. The stuffing is made with cooked chana dal (bengal gram) which is sweetened with jaggery and flavored with cardamom and nutmeg powder. Puran or Paruppu Poli is a traditional stuffed Indian sweet bread prepared for festival occasions. In some places along with Bengal gram, little coconut is added in the stuffing. Some use sugar instead of jaggery to make the stuffing sweet.
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