Chakkara Poli | Cheeni Poli | Puran Poli with Chana Dal & Sugar
Traditionally paruppu poli is made with jaggery. But we can make it with Sugar too. Its a very soft and tasty poli usually served with generous amount of ghee also topped with Pal Payasam
Servings: 4 people
Calories: 300kcal
Equipment
- Mixer Grinder
- Heavy Bottomed Pan
- Tawa
Ingredients
For Filling
- 1 Cup Split Bengal Gram (Channa Dal / Kadalaparuppu) 1 cup - 250ml
- 1 Cup Sugar
- ½ teaspoon Cardamom Powder
For Outer Cover
- 2 Cups Maida
- a Pinch Orange Food Color Optional. We can use turmeric instead
- 2 tablespoon Sesame Oil
Other Ingredients
- ¼ Cup Ghee For cooking Poli
- 2 tablespoon 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!
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Notes
- Conventionally we use maida for the outer layer but if we need healthier version we can use wheat flour.
Nutrition
Serving: 1Poli | Calories: 300kcal | Carbohydrates: 16g | Protein: 5g | Fat: 4g