Puran Poli (पुरण पोळी)

A festive sweet flatbread stuffed with sweetened chana dal and cardamom, cooked on a griddle with ghee — Maharashtrian celebration food.

Cuisine: Maharashtrian (Maharashtra) · Style: Sweet · Protein: Lentils · Total time: 60 minutes · Difficulty: hard · Servings: 4 · Spice: 1/5

Ingredients

• 1 cup chana dal
• 1 cup jaggery, grated
• 1 tsp cardamom powder
• 1/4 tsp nutmeg powder
• 1.5 cups whole wheat flour
• 1/4 cup fine semolina
• 3 tbsp oil
• Ghee for cooking
• A pinch of salt
• Water as needed

Steps

1. Cook chana dal until soft but not mushy; drain very well.
2. On low heat, mash dal with jaggery, cardamom, and nutmeg until a thick puran forms. Cool.
3. Knead flour, semolina, oil, salt, and water into a soft, rested dough.
4. Take a dough ball, flatten, place a larger ball of puran inside, seal, and roll gently into a disc.
5. Cook on a hot tawa, flipping with generous ghee until golden on both sides.
6. Serve warm with extra ghee, milk, or saar (thin dal).

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