Puran Poli

                This is one of the traditional recipes from Gujarat. This is one type of sweet chapati. In Gujarat we make it on a special occasions. You can count this recipe as one of my favorites.

•    Ingredients:

1. Toovar daal  1 cup
2. Sugar 1 cup
3. Wheat flour 1 cup
4. Saffron 8-10 strands
5. Cardamom powder 1/2 tsp
6. Ghee 1 tbsp
7. Oil 2 tsp
8. Cloves 3 

• Method:

1. Cook toovar daal in a pressure cooker with 2 cups of water.
2. Cook it on medium flame until 4-5 whistles.
3. Now extract extra water from the daal.
4. Heat 1 tbsp ghee in a pan.
5. Add cloves to it.
6. Add cooked daal when clove splutters.
7. Cook it for 5 mins on medium flame.
8. Now add sugar , cardamom powder and saffron to the daal.
9. Cook it until sugar dissolves and daal starts to leave the sides of pan.
10. Turn of the flame and let the mixture cool down completely.
11. Stuffing is ready keep it a side.
12. Take wheat flour in a bowl and add 2 tsp oil to it.
13. Make chapati like dough out of it
14. Make small balls out of the dough and roll out small chapatis.
15. Now take one chapati and spread daal mixture over it.
16. Cover it with second chapati and press both the chapatis together with your hands.
17. Roll out the chapati again with rolling pin. 
18. Cook the stuffed chapati (puran poli) both sides on a flat pan.
19. Apply ghee over puran poli when cooked from both sides.
20. Serve hot with pickle or spicy sabzi.