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Puran Poli

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Let's make puran poli, Maharashtra delicacy.
Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 4 minutes
Total Time 34 minutes
Course Main Course, Side Dish
Cuisine Indian
Servings 4 people
Calories 190 kcal

Ingredients
  

  • 2 cups Chana Dal
  • 3 and 1/2 cups Water
  • 1/2 tsp Salt
  • 1 cup Brown Sugar
  • 1 tsp Nutmeg powder
  • 1 tsp Cardamom powder
  • 1/2 cup Ghee(Clarified butter)

Ingredients for flour dough

  • 1 and 1/2 cup Whole wheat flour
  • 1/2 cup All purpose flour
  • 1 cup Water

Instructions
 

  • Take 2 cups chana dal also called chana lentils. Wash with water.
    chana dal
  • Take a cooker, add washed chana dal and add 3 1/2 cups water, salt.
  • Close the lid and pressure cook the chana dal.
  • Add brown sugar to cooked chana dal and cook for 5 minutes.
  • Mash chana dal with potato smasher into fine paste, add nutmeg powder and cardamom powder.
  • Keep mashed chana dal aside.

Instruction for flour dough

  • Take a 1 and 1/2 cups wheat flour and 1/2 cup of all purpose flour.
  • Add 3/4 cup of water and collect the dough together, if need take 1/4 cup water and add gradually until the dough is smooth.
  • Knead the dough for 7 to 10 minutes. Let the dough rest for 15 minutes.

Instruction for making puran poli

  • Make the dough balls and keep it ready to make chapati cover for puran poli.
  • Take one flat board, put dough ball on it.
  • Take a rolling pin and flatten the dough.
  • Roll the flatten dough into dry flour both sides.
  • After dusting dry flour, roll the dough and make thin chapati.
  • Take puran and put it on the chapati.
  • Flatten the puran on chapati.
  • Faltten puran dal and cover 3/4 part of chapati
  • Fold over the first edge of chapati on puran.
  • Fold over second edge of chapati on puran.
  • Fold over third edge of chapati on puran.
  • Fold over fourth edge of chapati on puran.
  • Sprinkle dry flour on folded puran stuffed chapati.
  • Roll puran stuffed chapati very lightly with rolling pin.
  • Flatten the stuffed chapati as thin as possible with with rolling pin.

Instruction for cooking puran poli

  • Take tawa, put it on medium low heat. Once tawa is hot enough, add rolled puran poli on tawa. Cook one side for 1 to 2 minutes.
  • Once the puran poli cooked, put teaspoon of ghee on it.
    puran poli
  • Flip puran poli and add ghee to other side as well.
  • Once puran poli is done, take one chapati box, line it with parchment paper and put puran poli in a box.
Keyword Puran Poli, Sweet Stuffed Flat Bread