Recipe 30 - Gram Dal Poli

Ingredients:
Gram Dhall : 1 cup
Jaggery : 3/4 - 1 cup (depends)
Ghee

For Outer Cover:
Maida : 1 1/4 cup
Oil : 1/4 cup
Salt a pinch
Turmeric powder a pinch

Method:

• In a bowl, add maida, turmeric powder, salt, oil.
• Add water and make a dough (like chapathi dough). Keep aside.
• Allow it soak for atleast an hour.
• Soak the gram dhall for about 1/2 an hour.
• Cook in the pressure cooker with little water (6 whistles)
• Grate the jaggery and keep it aside
• Take out the gram dhall , cool it down. Drain if there is any excess water.
• Grind it with jaggery in a mixer.
• Make balls. Keep aside.
• Now make balls with Maida. Pat it with little oil in hand in a Plaintain leaf or a plastic sheet.
• Once you get the size of puri, place the gram dhall, jaggery balls in the center, close it.
• Pat it again with some oil in hand.
• In a pan, add little ghee and cook the poli in a medium flame, till you get some brown colors on both sides.
• Serve hot with ghee on top / hot milk on top.