Puran Poli Recipe
Roll up this puran poli recipe for a light Indian dessert. A puffy flat bread rolled up with a buttery sweet filling packed with spices and flavor.
Prep:
10 mins
Cook:
1 hr 30 mins
Total:
1 hr 40 mins
Ingredients
For Puran (dal stuffing):
- 1½ cups chana dal
- ¼ tsp turmeric
- 1⁄2 tsp ghee
- 3 cups water
- 1½ cups jaggery
- 1 tsp ghee
- 1⁄2 tsp cardamom powder
For Poli (outer covering):
- 2 cup wheat flour
- 1 cup maida
- 1⁄4 tsp turmeric
- 1⁄4 tsp salt
- 2 tbsp oil, plus 2 tsp
- water, for kneading
For Dusting:
- maida
- ghee
Instructions
To Make Puran/Chana Dal Stuffing:
- In a large bowl, soak 1½ cup chana dal for 1 hour. Drain water and transfer chana to a pressure cooker.
- Add turmeric, ghee, and water. Cover the pressure cooker and cook for 9 minutes or 3 whistles on medium flame. Drain the water.
- Transfer dal to a thick bottom pan or kadai on medium low heat. Add jaggery and mix well. Once jaggery melts, start mashing dal until it turns into a smooth paste. Keep cooking until mixture thickens and holds shape.
- Add ghee and cardamom powder and cook for 1 minute, or until mixture doesn't stick to the pan. If the mixture is undercooked stuffing will be sticky and is difficult to mold into a ball.
- Transfer mixture to a plate and cool for 3 minutes. Grease hands with ghee and shape dal into balls. Set aside.
To Prepare Poli (outer covering):
- In a large bowl, add flour, maida, and turmeric. Add 2 tablespoons oil and season with salt. Mix until ingredients are combined.
- Add water as needed and start to knead the dough. Work the dough until smooth and soft. Add water in small batches.
- Grease the dough with 2 teaspoons of oil, cover, and rest for at least 1 hour.
- Punch and knead dough. Pinch a small portion and make a smooth ball. form a cup by pressing dough from the sides. Place a ball sized puran or dal stuffing.
- start to stuff dal inside by pulling the dough over it. Seal dough without cracks.
- Dust the ball with maida and flatten slightly. Now roll dough gently as thin as possible.
- Cook puran poli on a hot pan with ghee or tawa on medium heat. Flip over once the first side is half cooked. Puff the puran poli and cook uniformly.
- Serve with a glass of milk. Enjoy.
Nutrition
- Sugar: 28g
- :
- Calcium: 81mg
- Calories: 426kcal
- Carbohydrates: 75g
- Cholesterol: 15mg
- Fat: 10g
- Fiber: 9g
- Iron: 6mg
- Monounsaturated Fat: 4g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g
- Potassium: 221mg
- Protein: 8g
- Saturated Fat: 4g
- Sodium: 2438mg
- Trans Fat: 1g
- Vitamin C: 2mg
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