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Hi! I am Vasundhara Parvate. This is my first contribution to Bawarchi.. am a Maharashtrian staying in Pune, Maharashtra, India. My recipe is "Sanja-Puran Poli. It is easy to make as well as easy to digest compared to our traditional Puranpoli. I hope  all of you like it. Please send your comments  after preparing it. .

Email:vgparvate@yahoo.com.

Sanja-PuranPoli

Ingredients

One cup wheat rava (Roasted pink)
One tbsp ghee
2 cups jaggery( finely chopped)
1 cup sugar
1/2 tsp salt
one cup channa dal
1 cup wheat flour
1/2 cup all purpose flour(maida)
1/2 cup oil
1tsp nutmeg/cardamom powder    
Water
 1/2 cup fine rice flour

Method

  1. Wash  channa dal and cook it in pressure cooker with 2 cups of water until soft.
  2. When cooled grind it to a paste in a mixy by adding little water if needed. Keep it aside.
  3. Mix both the flours, add 1/4 tsp salt, enough water to make a soft dough.
  4. After one  hour, knead it well by adding  little water and little oil.
  5. The dough should be sticky as well as pliable. 
  6. Pour the remaining oil over the dough and keep it aside.
  7. Heat ghee in a kadai, add roasted rava, 1/4 tsp salt, channa dal paste and 2 cups of boiled water, stir, cover and let it cook.
  8. Add finely chopped jaggery and sugar, stir well  and cover.
  9. Keep stirring  so that sugar and jaggery is melted and the mixture turns into a ball.
  10. Add nutmeg/cardamom  powder, a pinch  of orange colour. Keep it aside to kool.
  11. Knead the dough again. Also knead the filling to make a soft ball.
  12. Take a small marblesized ball of dough , flatten it, place in the center, a ball of filling  - 5 times the dough ball, cover it  completely
  13. Roll it on rice flour as thin as possible and roast on a heated tava both the sides , on medium  flame, apply ghee  after removing from tava .
  14. Stack the polies one above the other.
  15. Eat with ghee or coconut milk warm or cold. After one or two days it is tastier.

Note- These polies are easy to handle as well as they remain soft. If you want to use Microwave, you can prepare the filling in Micro as follows.
 In a big bowl, add roasted rava, ghee, salt, dal paste, jaggery,sugar and water. Mix well . Micro for 3 min, stir, micro for 3min, stir add nutmeg/cardamom powder micro for 2 or more  min, on 100% until the mixture is cooked  and  turns into a ball.


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