Poli

Poli

Ingredients:
Channa Dhal – 1 cup
Powdered Jaggery – 1 cup
Maida – 1 cup
Turmeric Powder – a pinch
Cashews – 6 Ghee – 3 tbs
Grated Coconut – 3/4 cup
Cooking Oil – 2 tbs
Cardamom – 2

Procedure :

• Make a soft dough of the maida using water as required and also adding the turmeric powder and mixing them all uniformly together.
• Cook the Channa Dhal in water and ensure that it is not over cooked. (Let it cook until you are able to press it once cooked).
• Decant the excess water and mix the dhal with the jaggery, coconut and cardamom. Heat up a heavy bottomed pan and add this mixture to it and stir over a medium flame for about 5 minutes.
• Let it cool and then grind this into a fine paste adding very little water. To this paste add small pieces of cashews fried in ghee and keep this filling aside.
• Over a greased plate, plastic sheet or foil, flatten out small ball sized quantity of the maida dough. Place a smaller sized ball of the sweet filling and cover it completely using the flattened maida dough. Then flatten it out once again uniformly.
• Continue the process to prepare the rest of the polis. Heat up a tawa and when it is very hot place the polis one at a time and apply oil / ghee all around and cook.
• Turn and cook on either sides until pink spots appear on the outer covering. 
• Serve hot with ghee.