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Puran Poli Recipe | Bobbatlu Recipe
Prep Time
30 mins
Cook Time
15 mins
Total Time
45 mins
 

Puran poli recipe is one of the tasty and high-calorie sweet dishes.  Bobbatlu recipe is a kind of Indian flatbread made using all-purpose flour, chana dal, jaggery and ghee.

Course: Dessert
Cuisine: Indian
Keyword: Bobbatlu, Puran Poli
Servings: 6
Calories: 160 kcal
Author: Uppada Lakshmi
Ingredients
  • Chana Dal or Yellow Lentil – 1 cup
  • Water – 3 cups
  • Maida/ all purpose flour – 1 cup
  • Rava/ semolina – 2 tbsp.
  • Salt – 1 tbsp.
  • Oil – 3 tbsp.
  • Ghee – 10 tbsp.
  • Turmeric powder – ¼ tbsp.
  • Fennel seeds/ sonf – 1 tbsp.
  • Green Cardamom – 5 No.
  • Jaggery – 1 ½ cup
Instructions
  1. Clean and soak chana dal in a pressure cooker by adding 2 cups of water and for 30 minutes.
  2. Take a mixing bowl and add all purpose flour, semolina rava, little salt for taste and oil.
  3. Knead flour by adding little by little water till it forms a hard dough.
  4. To make it soft, pour ghee over the dough and keep it aside for 30 minutes.
  5. Add little salt and turmeric powder to chana dal and pressure cook for two whistle blows.
  6. First on low flame and other on high flame. If you find excess water then discard it.
  7. Once soaked, knead the dough till it absorbs the whole ghee and turns soft.
  8. Meanwhile, let’s prepare flavoring powder. In a grinder, add fennel seeds and green cardamoms.
  9. If needed we can add little sugar or else grind to soft powder. Keep aside.
  10. Once chana dal is cooled, open the lid and mash dal to a soft paste.
  11. Heat little ghee on a pan and put jaggery and cook till solids break and turn thick and sticky syrup.
  12. Add chana dal paste and cook till we get thick concentration.
  13. Sprinkle fennel seed powder and further cook till we get a non-sticky paste. Off the flame and keep aside.
  14. While it’s mildly hot, add ghee and mix well till we get a soft paste.
Stuffing sweet and making Puran Poli:
  1. Make small balls of this sweet mix and keep them aside.
  2. Take a small portion of maida mix and spread to put sweet balls in it.
  3. Cover the ball with the edges of the dough and keep it aside. Grease polythene sheet and place this mix and spread gently.
  4. Spread till we get a thin and circular shape.
  5. Heat the pan and spread little ghee over it. Maintain medium to high flame for frying.
  6. Gently remove Bobbatlu recipe to our hand making sure the jaggery mix does not come out and place over the pan.
  7. As the pan is hot, ghee coating helps in the cooking layer of dough keeping it soft even after a week.
  8. Fry Puran Poli Recipe to golden brown and serve hot to experience its ultimate flavor.

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