puranpoli.

This is my first post so lets start with something sweet...

Puranpoli is the best sweet that maharashtra has to offer and its my most favourite too.

Ingredients:-

1 cup chana dal,

1 cup jaggery(for me 1/2cup jaggery and 1/2 cup sugar works best)

nutmeg freshly grated

a few strands of saffron,

powdered cardamom,

wheat flour,

salt pinch,

water,

pinch turmeric powder,

oil.

How to:-

Take a big vessel, put water for boiling. Once it starts boiling add chana dal and a pinch of turmeric powder and 1 tsp oil. Let it boil until it turns soft enough to be easily broken with fingers.

Put it on strainer with a vessel under it to take all the extra water out(this can be used for making katachi amati.)

Once all the water is strained add sugar/jaggery to it and grind it on the mixer until it forms a paste,there should be no lumps. Put it in a kadai for heating again on a low flame. keep stirring .

Cook the mixture until a white line starts forming around the edges of the kadai. and the spoon stands straight in the mixture. Turn the gas off add saffron,cardamom and nutmeg powders. let it cool a bit. The puran is ready.

Meanwhile knead the wheat flour a bit loose than usual rotis. mix 2 sp oil and salt and add it to the kneaded flour and mix it well to loosen the atta.

take a small ball of the atta make a round pouch of it with your fingers,just like you make for stuffed paratha. Stuff the puran in it. Roll it out thin like poli ( not thick like paratha).

Roast it on a tawa until both sides are golden brown. Serve them hot with lots of ghee and/or milk(make special milk for puranpoli by adding saffron,nutmeg,cardamom to it.)

Enjoy the best sweet dish on the earth...