Dear Readers,
When i was a child puran poli was my favourite dish. This sunday when i made it , i remembered my childhood days when my mother used to cook for me. Its a maharashtrian sweet dish, but very popular in gujarat and rajasthan and many other states of india. The recipe of puran is shared below.
Ingredients for puran :-
1 cup tuver daal
1/2 cup channa dal
2tbs rice
1 cup sugar
3tbs ghee
2tbs cardamom powder
1/2 nutmeg powder
saffron strands.
Ingredients for dough:-
2 cup wheat flour
2tbs oil
Preparation:-
- Mix both dals, tuver and channa dal and also 2 tbs rice and boil in pressure cooker.
- Now remove water and grind the mixture to make the batter.
- Heat ghee in pan and add the mixture and stir well. Add sugar and stir till it becomes thick.
- Add remaining cardamom powder and nutmeg powder. Soak the saffron strands in little water and add the same and let it cook for 20 min till it becomes thick enough to make balls. Keep stirring to make the puran thick.
- let it cool and make 8 to 10 equal size balls and keep it aside. The puran is ready.
- To make dough add 2 tbs oil to wheat atta and then add little water and knead .
- Divide the dough into 8 to 10 equal portion .
- Make round chappati of each dough and then put the filling (puran) ball in it and fold the edges of dough over it.
- Now flatten the dough and roll again into a thick chappati.
- Heat the tava and cook the chappati on both side till it turns to be light brown.
- While serving apply ghee on it.
