pooran poli

Ingredients:

All purpose wheat flour or u can use flour (called maida) 1 ½ cups + 2 tbsp for dusting
Refined oil 1 tsp
Channa dhal 1 cup
Jaggery or sugar 1 cup (as per your taste)
Cardamon powder 1 tsp
Ghee 2 tbsp



Preparation:

Add enough water to flour prepare soft dough. At the end add 1 tsp oil and cover it with a moisture cloth. Keep it for 3 hours at least.

Meanwhile, soak the channa dal in water for 30 minutes. The dal is very soft now. If you prefer, you can cook for 3 whistle in pressure cooker. Strain the water fully. Keep the dal in the strainer for sometime to remove excess water. Grind this into fine paste preferably in a grinder without adding water.

Now take a bottom thick vessel. Add sugar or jaggery with ¼ cup of water to it. Once it is melted . Then keep it boiling for 5 minutes. Now add the grinded channa dhal paste to it. Keep stirring. In 15 minutes it will become thick. At the end add elaichi powder and mix it well.

For this quantity you can prepare 8 to 9 polis. When it is cooled, make pooran balls and flour balls .
Now roll the flour dough in to a small circle. To get a thin poli, you have to roll this small circle, from the end keeping the middle portion thick. Fill it with pooran balls. Then roll it again with the help of maida for dusting. It will never crack in between. Instead you will get an even shaped thin poli .
Heat the non stick pan on medium heat. put the poli. Add few drops of ghee while turning to other side. Mouth watering poli is ready. You can have as many as you like. Since by doing this method, it will consume only less ghee/oil. Poli ready to eat!