PURAN POLI

Ingredients:

• 1/2 kg Maida (All purpose flour)

• 1/2 kg Lentil (Gram dal)

• 1 tsp Cardamom powder

• 1 tsp Ghee

• 1/2 kg Jaggery

• 100 ml Oil

• Salt to taste

Cooking Instructions:
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Wash and boil the lentil with water and 1/2 tsp salt till it becomes soft.
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Cool slightly and strain the dal using a strainer.
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Add cardamom powder and jaggery and grind to make fine paste.
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If the paste is sticky, keep it on fire to dry up completely. This is puran.
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Knead 1/2 kg maida with water and 1/2 tsp salt. Do not make it hard.
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Add oil and knead the maida again till oil gets absorbed.
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Prepare equal number of balls from maida and puran.
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Roll out maida balls to make small pooris.
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Stuff these pooris with puran ball.
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Roll them again into balls.
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Roll out to make chapatis. It is called poli.
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Heat a griddle and roast each poli.
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Apply ghee on both sides when done.
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Serve with hot cup of tea.