Recipe: Puran Poli/Bobbatu/Poli

Puran poli/Bobbatlu/Poli is a classical Marathi dish, which is a dessert served during auspicious occasions and during important festivals such as Holi, Padwa in Maharashtra.

Ingredients:

1 cup chana dal/bengal gram
1 cup Jaggery (adjust as per your taste)
1 1/2 cups maida/all purpose flour
6 tbsps oil
1/2 tsp cardamom pwd
pinch of salt

Preparation:
1. Mix maida, salt, oil and water to make a soft dough(like chappati dough). Knead well and keep aside for one hour.
2. Soak bengal gram in water for 1 hour and drain the water.
3. Pressure cook bengal gram adding some water till the dal cooks properly. Grind the cooked dal to paste.
4 Heat a vessel, add the grinded dal paste, jaggery and cook till it mix well, without lumps and moisture in it.
5. Add cardamom and salt and combine. Keep aside till it cools.
6. Apply oil to your hand and take small portion of dough and make a small poori.
7. Now take a small portion of the mixture and keep it in the center of the poori and fold from all edges to middle to cover the stuffing.
8. Slowly make the stuffed ball to a poori like the size of the roti.(This is the key thing and you need to be very careful while doing this.)
9. Heat the tawa and roast the roti on both sides by adding oil to it.
10. Before serving apply some ghee on the roti. It tastes delicious.

You can store it in a refrigerator for 2 days.
Hope you like the recipe.