Thengai Poli Puran Poli

🌱Extra kneading 🌱Resting time and cooling time for Puran and  maida dough 🌱Cook with ghee

 

  Other Poli recipes in TMF For the outer layer: Maida | All-purpose flour - 1 cup Sesame oil - 4 tbsp Turmeric powder- 1/4 tsp Salt - pinch For the stuffing Jaggery – 1  cup Coconut (grated) - 1 cup, tight pressed Ghee/clarified butter – 1/2 tsp Cardamom powder- 1/2 tsp For Poli Ghee - for Poli Sesame oil - to grease hands

How to make Paruppu poli with step by step pictures: 

In a wide bowl add maida, salt, and turmeric powder, mix well

Add 1 tablespoon of sesame oil and 1/4 cup of water and mix well and start kneading

Furthermore, add 1 tablespoon of oil and water little by little and knead Keep adding water and oil, continue kneading

Knead well and make a pliable dough

Add 1 tablespoon of oil around the dough; spread well and cover the bowl with a plate and rest it for 3-4 hours. I generally keep for 3 hours if you are running late  rest the dough for  at least one hour

Soak jaggery in 1/4 cup of hot water and microwave for 1-2 minutes till the jaggery syrup melts. Avoid making jaggery syrup

Strain the jaggery syrup and keep it aside Boil the jaggery syrup till you see a frothy boil

Add coconut and cardamom powder to the jaggery syrup and cook

Furthermore, add ghee and mix well

Keep mixing and cook till the poornam comes together without water coming separately. Turn off the stove immediately

Transfer the pooranam to a cup and let it cool completely. Avoid closing pooranam

Let the  puranam  cool for at least  an hour After the dough is rested for a few hours. Take the dough and knead again once. The dough with be pliable but still, it will be tacky Pinch almost equal amount of small dough balls and keep aside Take an almost equal size of small puranam dough balls and keep them aside

In parchment paper/banana leaf and apply oil  Grease your hands with sesame oil and take one dough and place it on the parchment paper Gently pat (press) the dough with your fingers and make a circle to keep puranam

Keep pooranam and wrap the dough

Press the dough into a thin poli

Heat the dosa pan in medium flame and add ghee Cook poli on one side, flip and cook another side

Stack the poli on a casserole. Warm poli and enjoy