Puran Poli /Sweetened chickpeas stuffed Flat bread
Puran Poli a delicious flat bread made with sweetened chickpeas and spices.
Servings: 4
Ingredients
- For covering
- 2 cups /250g All purpose flour
- ¼ cup +3 tablespoon oil I used sesame seed oil
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon turmeric
- ½ cup water +1 tablespoon
- For the filling
- 1 cup + 1 ½ tablespoon/250g chana dal/split chickpeas
- ½ cup /100g Jaggery
- ⅓ cup /60g Sugar use 40g more if you want more sweetness
- ½ teaspoon ground ginger
- ½ teaspoon cardamom
- ¼ teaspoon nutmeg
- Ghee for brushing
Instructions
- Wash Chana Dal/split chick peas with running water and cook it with 3 cups of Water in a pressure cooker. (Cook on high till one whistle; then lower the heat and cook for 5 minutes and then crank up the heat till one whistle.)
- Once the pressure is gone, drain the excess water in the dal and wash with running water once again drain it in colander.
- In medium saucepot cook the dal together with the Sugar and jaggery on medium heat .First sugar melts and it become watery .But with continued cooking it will form a thick mass
- Add nutmeg Powder, dry ginger powder and cardamom Powder; mix well and switch off the heat.
- Grind them into fine paste still it is warm, as it cools it get thickens.
- Divide them into 9 lemon sized balls and set aside.
- To make the dough for the covering
- Mix together Flour, Salt and turmeric and make soft dough using enough Water. (The dough should be really soft; softer than a Poori dough)
- Keep it in a bowl and cover it with Oil .The dough should be covered completely with the Oil. Let it rest for 30 minutes at least.
- Pinch out 9balls from this dough and set aside.
- To make the Bolis
- Divide the filling into 9 equal lemon sized balls.
- Take a small portion (the size of a marble) of the dough; flatten it in your palm; place a Dal filling in the middle and cover it with the dough.
- Flatten the balls and keep it aside on Rice flour and repeat with all the other portions.
- Roll out each Dal filled dough into 7 inch circles with the help of flour to avoid sticking.
- Heat a tawa/ griddle on medium heat and cook the Boli on both sides till it starts to change the color here and there. When both sides are cooked brush with ghee, that will help to remove the flour and increase the flavor.
Notes
Make the outer covering by mixing flour, turmeric powder, salt, oil and water.
to this add oil and set aside like this
Pressure cook the chana dal/ split chickpeas like this.
Drain the water and add skillet and cook with sugar and jaggery like this
at first it become watery then continue to cook until it becomes thick to this add, nutmeg, cardamom and dry ginger powder.
once it cool enough to touch grind them into fine puree like this.
when you are ready to make the puran poli, divide both dough into 9 equal balls like this.
First flatten the outer covering like this
fill the stuffing
then cover it like this
then spread each ball into thin circle like this.
Heat the skillet.place it carefully and cook when you see the bubbles like this on the top flip
spread both sides with ghee and transfer to plate.
enjoy.
to this add oil and set aside like this
Pressure cook the chana dal/ split chickpeas like this.
Drain the water and add skillet and cook with sugar and jaggery like this
at first it become watery then continue to cook until it becomes thick to this add, nutmeg, cardamom and dry ginger powder.
once it cool enough to touch grind them into fine puree like this.
when you are ready to make the puran poli, divide both dough into 9 equal balls like this.
First flatten the outer covering like this
fill the stuffing
then cover it like this
then spread each ball into thin circle like this.
Heat the skillet.place it carefully and cook when you see the bubbles like this on the top flip
spread both sides with ghee and transfer to plate.
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