Puran Poli / Holige पुरण पोली

Ingredients:

1 cup Chana Dal (Soaked for 5 hrs )

1 cup Jaggery( scraped/broken in very small pieces)

1 pinch turmeric powder

1 pinch cardamom powder

1 pinch nutmug powder

1 pinch black pepper powder

1 cup wheat flour (one can take combination of all purpose flour and wheat flour)

1 pinch of salt

water for kneading flour

1 spoon oil

Ghee/oil for roasting puran poli

Preparation:
Knead wheat flour with a pinch of salt, 1 spoon oil and water( dough should be as we knead for chapati or slightly softer )
Pressure cook soacked chana dal with minimum water. In case after cooking, there is some water remaining then remove it from chana dal. Grind finely this cooked dal in grinder/blender with very minimum water required(resuse water remaining if any when you cooked dal ). There is an appliance called 'puran yantra' used for making puran.. i.e. grinding chana dal, you can use it if you have.

Take a thick bottom pan, heat on mediaum heat, add ground chana dal and jaggery, keep stirring till jaggery melts and mixure forms good consitency. Switch off heat, add cinamom, nutmug and black pepper powder, mix and allow to cool. You will notice that this mixture will become much dry after cooling so don't worry if u feel mixture/filling is lil soft when its hot.

Now prepare small ping pong ball shaped balls of filling(puran), prepare dough balls of lil smaller size than filling balls. If dough is more than filling then the taste of dough will override taste of stuffing

Roll dough ball into small round shape, then keep the filling ball in the middle of the rolled dough

Now bring the edges together of rolled dough to cover the stuffing completely, Make sure that there is no open /uncovered part of stuffing/filling.

Now roll this into round shape using rolling pin. Roll as thin as possible making sure that the filling does not leak out and covering should not tear.

Heat the tava/griddle on medium heat (low heat will make the puran poli crispy and high heat may burn it). After tava/griddle is heated put the rolled puran poli on it. spread lil oil/ghee on the uncooked part. After one side is done, cook other side.

When done, serve with lil ghee on puran poli. It can be stored for couple of days, but the real taste of puran poli is when served hot out of griddle. :-)