Chakkara Poli | Cheeni Poli | Puran Poli with Chana Dal & Sugar
Puran Poli | Puran Poli with Dal and Sugar Filling is a wonderful South Indian dessert that is prepared for any marriages in southern part of TamilNadu especially in Nagercoil. Puran Poli | Puran Poli with Dal and Sugar Filling is a sweet paratha made with maida as the outercover and cooked bengal gram dal with sugar as the filling . Conventional Puran Poli which we make for festivals has the filling of Bengal Gram dal along with jaggery. This is complex because, the jaggery filling always gets melted quickly so sometimes the filling may come out of the outer cover. Also we cannot roll the poli like we roll as paratha. We need to use our hands to spread carefully and bind the filling inside the maida cover. But this Bengal Gram with sugar filling is very easy to handle and we can use this filling inside the outercover and roll it like a usual paratha. So, this is less complicated and this puran (filling) will never go wrong.
A perfect Dessert for any occasion!
Puran Poli | Puran Poli with Dal and Sugar Filling Poli goes very well with Paal Payasam. In Nagercoil and few other places in the kerala border, this Puran Poli | Puran Poli with Dal and Sugar Filling is served as dessert along with Paal Payasam. First Puran Poli will be served and it is topped up with generous amount of ghee and on top they will serve hot Paal Payasam. First time when I saw them serving Poli with Paal Payasam, I was so surprised and not sure how it would taste. But believe me, this is one of the wonderful combo.
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Recipe Card:
Chakkara Poli | Cheeni Poli | Puran Poli with Chana Dal & Sugar
Equipments Needed
- Mixer Grinder
- Heavy Bottomed Pan
- Tawa
Ingredients
For Filling
- 1 Cup Split Bengal Gram (Channa Dal / Kadalaparuppu) 1 cup - 250ml
- 1 Cup Sugar
- ½ tsp Cardamom Powder
For Outer Cover
- 2 Cups Maida
- a Pinch Orange Food Color Optional. We can use turmeric instead
- 2 tbsp Sesame Oil
Other Ingredients
- ¼ Cup Ghee For cooking Poli
- 2 tbsp Rice Flour For Dusting and rolling maida outer cover
Instructions
Preparing Outer Cover Dough
- Mix the kesar powder/turmeric powder in maida/All purpose flour and add water little by little and knead it well like a soft chapati dough.
- To this add sesame oil and knead the dough and allow it to rest for atleast 1 hour
Preparing Filling
- Wash and take chana dal in vessel. Add water just to soak dal. Pressure cook Channadal/Kadalai paruppu in a cooker and allow for 3 whistles.
- Take the cooked channadal and strain any excess water and dry it in a towel
- Grind the dried cooked channa Dal in a mixer to a fine powder
- Add sugar to the ground powder
- Heat a heavy bottomed pan, and add the ground powder – sugar mix and one table spoon of ghee .
- Mix the dal and sugar in ghee for 2 mins. To this add cardamom powder and stir it evenly and remove from flame. Now the Puranam is ready for makig Poli
Preparing Poli
- Take small balls of kneaded dough, dust with rice flour and roll it to a small circle using a rolling pin.
- Place a lemon size puran ball in the middle of the rolled poli. Gently bring all the sides together and seal the filling carefuly. Remove excess dough.
- Once the filling is sealed, again dust with rice flour and roll into think poli
- Repeat the same with rest of the dough and filling
Cooking Poli
- Heat a tawa. Grease the tawa with ghee. Place one rolled poli in the tawa. Pour a teaspoon of ghee around the poli and cook it for about 30 seconds.
- Then flip the poli and cook on the other side. Repeat the cooking process for the rest of the rolled poli
Serving Time
- Serve the delicious Chakkara Poli | Cheeni Poli with generouse ghee and enjoy the wonderful sweet!
Video
Notes
- Conventionally we use maida for the outer layer but if we need healthier version we can use wheat flour.
Nutritional Info
Instructions with Step by Step Pictures:
PREPARING OUTER COVER DOUGH
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Mix the kesar powder/turmeric powder in maida/All purpose flour and add water little by little and knead it well like a soft chapati dough.
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To this add sesame oil and knead the dough and allow it to rest for atleast 1 hour
PREPARING FILLING
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Wash and take chana dal in vessel. Add water just to soak dal. Pressure cook Channadal/Kadalai paruppu in a cooker and allow for 3 whistles. Take the cooked channadal and strain any excess water and dry it in a towel. Grind the dried cooked channa Dal in a mixer to a fine powder
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Add sugar to the ground powder. Heat a heavy bottomed pan, and add the ground powder – sugar mix and one table spoon of ghee . Mix the dal and sugar in ghee for 2 mins. To this add cardamom powder and stir it evenly and remove from flame. Now the Puranam is ready for makig Poli
PREPARING POLI
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Take small balls of kneaded dough, dust with rice flour and roll it to a small circle using a rolling pin. Place a lemon size puran ball in the middle of the rolled poli. Gently bring all the sides together and seal the filling carefuly. Remove excess dough.
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Once the filling is sealed, again dust with rice flour and roll into think poli. Repeat the same with rest of the dough and filling
COOKING POLI
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Heat a tawa. Grease the tawa with ghee. Place one rolled poli in the tawa. Pour a teaspoon of ghee around the poli and cook it for about 30 seconds. Then flip the poli and cook on the other side. Repeat the cooking process for the rest of the rolled poli
SERVING TIME
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Serve the delicious Chakkara Poli | Cheeni Poli with generouse ghee and enjoy the wonderful sweet!
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Thank you mami for the very easy boli recipe. Made it for the first time yesterday using this recipe and it came out very well. Happy Pongal.
THANKS AND I'LL ALSO TRY IT
Thank you very much Mami I'll also try it.Happy Pongal
Thankyou Subbu! Easy to follow recipie. Only doubt… Won't the poli taste better if the channa is slightly fried without oil…and add vellum instead of sugar?!!
very tasty poli.i feel it will be taste better if u add coconut to yhe poornam
we can add jaggery instead of sugar which is good for health.
all your recipes look very authentic. Would it be the same if you add brown sugar instead of white sugar?
It is really a noble service, very useful information for the young and old.
Prayers and best wishes,
Vijaya
I use wheat flour instead of Maida and comes out softer. I also use Jaggery instead of sugar.
this is a very nice recipe. Will try it for sure. Can someone say what the sugar equivalent of jaggery measure is?
very useful really good information thanks for posting such a good information it will hepls the people a lot keep it up , Regards,
chakkara pongal recipe
Very interesting receipe
Very nice recipe.Good
Thank you… really poli tastes very much… everybody love it…..
Thanks for the poli receipe. Being from Nagercoil i enjoyed making it. It was tasting just like the way my pattis house ones