Ingredients
Method
- Take 2 cups chana dal also called chana lentils. Wash with water.
- Take a cooker, add washed chana dal and add 3 1/2 cups water, salt.
- Close the lid and pressure cook the chana dal.
- Add brown sugar to cooked chana dal and cook for 5 minutes.
- Mash chana dal with potato smasher into fine paste, add nutmeg powder and cardamom powder.
- Keep mashed chana dal aside.
Instruction for flour dough
- Take a 1 and 1/2 cups wheat flour and 1/2 cup of all purpose flour.
- Add 3/4 cup of water and collect the dough together, if need take 1/4 cup water and add gradually until the dough is smooth.
- Knead the dough for 7 to 10 minutes. Let the dough rest for 15 minutes.
Instruction for making puran poli
- Make the dough balls and keep it ready to make chapati cover for puran poli.
- Take one flat board, put dough ball on it.
- Take a rolling pin and flatten the dough.
- Roll the flatten dough into dry flour both sides.
- After dusting dry flour, roll the dough and make thin chapati.
- Take puran and put it on the chapati.
- Flatten the puran on chapati.
- Faltten puran dal and cover 3/4 part of chapati
- Fold over the first edge of chapati on puran.
- Fold over second edge of chapati on puran.
- Fold over third edge of chapati on puran.
- Fold over fourth edge of chapati on puran.
- Sprinkle dry flour on folded puran stuffed chapati.
- Roll puran stuffed chapati very lightly with rolling pin.
- Flatten the stuffed chapati as thin as possible with with rolling pin.
Instruction for cooking puran poli
- Take tawa, put it on medium low heat. Once tawa is hot enough, add rolled puran poli on tawa. Cook one side for 1 to 2 minutes.
- Once the puran poli cooked, put teaspoon of ghee on it.
- Flip puran poli and add ghee to other side as well.
- Once puran poli is done, take one chapati box, line it with parchment paper and put puran poli in a box.
