Puran Poli

Puran Poli

Ingredients

For Kneading Flour
Wheat flour or flour – 400 grams
Salt - to taste
Oil or Ghee – 1 tablespoon

For  Pooran* Split Bengal gram (Chane ki daal)– 150 grams
* Sugar or Jaggery (Gur)– 50 grams
* Green cardamom (Chhoti Elaichi)– 8 to 10
* Ghee or refined oil – 100-150 grams

Method

Soak Bengal gram for 4-5 hours.
Sift flour, add 1 tablespoon ghee and salt to taste and mix well. Knead smooth dough with warm water.
Cover and keep aside for 20 minutes.
Boil gram in pressure cooker in 2-3 tablespoon water. Turn off the flame after 1 whistle. Take out
lentil, cool and grind finely in mixer without water.
Heat 1 tablespoon ghee, add ground lentil and  jaggery,  Fry for 25 minutes, cool and mix powdered green
cardamom. Till pooran is ready.
Heat a griddle. Make a small ball of dough, flatten and stuff 2 tablespoon of pooran. Seal and
press between your palms (Your pooran poli will not break while rolling if you do this).
Rub this stuffed ball with flour and roll into a round 6”-7” in diameter with a rolling pin.
Put pooran poli on griddle. Apply oil on both sides and fry till it turns brown, turning
regularly. Fry all pooran polis in this manner. Pooran Poli is ready. Enjoy  with Katachi Amti.