Puran Poli

Ingredients:

• Maida - 1 cup
• Wheat flour - 1/4 cup
• Salt - a pinch
• Ghee - 1 1/2 tsp
• Oil - 1/4 cup
• Turmeric powder - a pinch
• Water - enough to mix dough
• Ghee - for frying

Inner filling:

• Bengal gram dal - 1 cup (kadalai paruppu)
• Grated jaggery - 1/2 cup
• Cardamom powder - 1 sp
• Nutmeg powder - 1 sp

Method:
Mix salt, ghee, turmeric powder to the flour till it blends well. Add water gradually & knead to a soft pliable dough. Keep under wet cloth for 1 hour. Knead again till dough becomes elastic & soft. Then cook dal in enough water in pressure cooker till one whistle. Allow to cool, strain through a colander to remove excess water & grind to a smooth paste along with finely grated jaggery & cardamom powder, nut meg powder. If the filling is little watery, dry it up by frying it in a hot pan. Make even sized (big lemon sized) balls out of the dal mixture. Divide maida dough into equal number of balls. Keep one ball of filling inside maida ball by flattening it. Cover &seal well with the maida dough.Then spread it like stuff parata. Heat a tava over the gas, turn over poli on the top of that carefully, pour little ghee around & cook on both sides.Your puran poli is ready to be served.