Puran Poli

Puran Poli is an Indian sweet made with flour, ghee, sugar and water. It is often prepared on the occasion of Diwali or Holi.

It is like a stuffed paratha filled with dal, jaggery and coconut.

Puran poli can be eaten as a snack or dessert or served as an accompaniment to main dishes.

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Puran Poli

Puran Poli is a traditional India dish made from flour and jaggery during festival time.

Prep Time15 minutes mins

Cook Time25 minutes mins

Total Time40 minutes mins

Course: Appetizer, Dessert, Snack

Cuisine: Indian

Servings: 2 people

Ingredients

• 2 cup Wheat Flour
• 3 cup Chana Dal
• 3 cup Sugar or Jaggery
• 1 cup Ghee
• 5 Cardamoms powdered
• as required Water
• as per taste Salt

Optional

• 1/4 Nutmeg – 1/4 grated

Instructions

• Mix flour with water.
• Knead well to make a stiff dough.
• Cover the dough and keep aside for 2 hours.
• Pressure cook the dal and strain out the water.
• Once the dal has cooled, add sugar along with 1 tbsp of ghee.
• Cook on low flame till the gram mixture is soft and sticky.
• Knead the dough again, adding salt, water and oil, little at a time, till the dough becomes pliable.
• Grind the dal and sugar mixture to a smooth consistency adding a little milk if it is too dry.
• Add cardamom powder and nutmeg powder.
• 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 rice flour, into flat rounds of about 7 inch in diameter.
• Cover on 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.
• 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.