Puran poli

March 30, 2021

Puran poli

Puran poli is a famous dish of Goa and Maharashtra. It is a roti stuffed with sweet chick pea paste.

Ingredients:

Oil : for frying

Ghee : as required

Puran (filling):

Chana dal (split chick peas) : 1 cup

Water : 1 & 1/2 cup

Kaffir lime leaf : 1

Jaggery : 1 cup

Salt : 1/2 tsp

Fennel seeds : 1 tsp

Sugar : 1 tbsp

Cardamom : 3 - 4 pods

Dough:

Wheat flour/ All purpose flour (maida) : 4 cups

Salt : 1/2 tsp

Turmeric : 1/4 tsp

Oil : 1/3 cup

Water : as required

Procedure:

Wash and soak the dal for 2 - 3 hours, then add salt and water (water level should be above the level of dal) start cooking; after it reaches a boil skim off the scum ( the froth) which will be bubbling up at the surface. Then add the lime leaves and cook further till it becomes soft and mushy; let it dry out completely. (I add the leaves to suppress the odour of dal. You can also use ordinary lime leaves or lemon grass)

Powder fennel seeds with a tblsp of sugar using a mortar/ pestle or spice grinding jar of a mixer. (Adding fennel seeds gives it a nice flavour and aids digestion of dal.)

Drain the liquid from the dal if any and add jaggery and the powdered spices to it and mix well. Then grind it on a grinding stone/ food processor or spice grinding jar of a mixer (if you are using mixer, grind in 3 batches about 3 tablespoons at a time) until you get a dough consistency.

Mix flour, turmeric powder, salt and water and knead a soft dough. Then add oil and keep kneading. The consistency of the dough and filling should be same for rolling the poli evenly. APF makes puran polies soft, whereas wheat flour makes them slightly crisp. (The dough is usually made of 100% APF but I have used 100% wheat flour, you can also use 50% wheat and 50% APF )

Take lemon size balls of the dough and puran; make a cup shape of the dough ball and stuff the puran into the dough. Slide the dough over the puran and seal it to form a ball; using your thumb flatten the ball from the center, pushing the filling outwards.