Puran Poli / Purna Poli

Puran Poli also known as Purna Poli in Konkani is a sweet flatbread made of Maida stuffed with Puran made from the mixture of Chana dal and Jaggery.

The following ingredients are needed to make delicious Puran Poli / Purna Poli

Ingredients:-

Maida (All Purpose Flour) - 2 cup
Tumeric powder.                -1/4tsp
Salt.                                    - a pinch
Ghee.                                  - 3tbsp +1tbsp
Chana dal.                           -2cup
Jaggery.                               -2 cup
Cardamom pods.                 - 5

Instructions:-

Grate the Jaggery and keep aside.

Peel the skin and finely crush the Cardamom pods and keep aside.

Method:-

Wash and pressure cook Chana dal for 3 whistle adding required water. When cooled drain the Water and grind the cooked Chana dal to a fine paste without adding Water.

In a pan melt the grated Jaggery adding little Water and strain it.Mix the ground Chana dal paste with the melted Jaggery and add finely crushed Cardamom powder. Mix well the Chana dal Jaggery mixture.

Heat a non stick Pan and transfer the Chana dal Jaggery mixture into the pan and mix well.Keep on stirring till it becomes dry and thick and switch off the flame.When little cooled make lemon shaped balls of the Chana dal Jaggery mixture (Puran) and keep aside.

In a wide mixing bowl add Maida, Turmeric powder and a pinch of Salt and mix well. Add 3tbsp of Ghee and required amount of Water and knead well to make a soft dough.Keep aside the Maida dough for 20 minutes.

Knead the Maida dough again to become smooth and elastic and make equal lemon size balls of the Maida dough.

Place a Maida ball on a plastic paper.Apply little oil on your palm and flatten the Maida ball into a small Puri.

Place the Chana dal ball (Puran) in the centre of the flatten Maida Puri and fold the edges together and join all the edges and pinch and seal them.Then dust it with Maida flour and gently roll the Puran stuffed Puri into thin roti without breaking the stuffed Puran.

Make the Puran stuffed Puris with the remaing Maida balls and place the prepared flattened Puris on a paper.

Heat a flat tawa and place the flattened Puris one by one and roast with little Ghee till light brown colour on both sides.

Keep each roasted Puran Polis seperately on a paper without touching each other till cooled.

Sweet Puran Poli / Purna Poli is ready to serve.