Poornam holigalu || Poornam bakshalu || Puran poli with pics and tips. Happy Diwali - 2021 to all friends and family 🎆🎇Poornam bakshalu is Indian flatbread prepared by using different stuffings. Puran poli is also popularly known as bobbatlu or bakshalu in Telugu, holige in Kannada and poli in Tamil. This is one of the main sweet recipe prepared on special occasions in South India. Mainly in my home town Adoni it is prepared on special occasions like Ganesh festival, Vara Lakshmi pooja,Diwali, Lakshmamavayya jathara, functions like marriages, naming ceremony etc.., We can prepare different varieties of poli like puran poli, coconut poli, vegetable poli, karam poli, sooji poli. In all these Puran poli is very popularly, which is prepared by using sweet dal stuffing called as poornam in Telugu. We can prepare dough using all purpose flour or wheat flour or chiroti rava. Today I am using chiroti rava to prepare dough instead of maida. Let's start recipe..
Event : Shhhhh Secretly cooking challenge
Taking this delicious puran poli to "Shhhhh Secretly cooking challenge" fb group started by Priya, and taken further till date by Mayuri di. Do check her space for wonderful recipes. We completed recipes from all states from A to Z, so now admin team and members decided a new interesting way for monthly theme that is - one group member in alphabetical order will suggest theme. Later admin team will pair interested members, then we share 2 secret ingredients among us and prepare recipe using it and all other members will guess it.
This month theme "Diwali Dhamaka" was suggested by admins Mayuri & Renu. I bookmarked Mayuri di's kalakand and Renu's milk powder chocolate ladoo recipes to try for coming Diwali. I am paired with Kalyani who blogs at "Sizzlingtastebuds", do check her space for different varieties of recipes from different regions. I gave saunf and powdered sugar as secret ingredients, she prepared air fryer makhana chivda recipe.In turn Kalyani gave me chiroti rava and toor dal as secret ing, both ingredients helped me to get tasty bobbatlu.
Poornam Bobbatlu
For dough
Chiroti rava - 2 cups
salt - 1 pinch
turmeric powder - 1/4 to 1/2 tsp
oil - 1/2 cup(adjust)
For stuffing
toor dal - 1 cup
chana dal - 1 cup
grated jaggery - 1&1/2 cup to 2 cup(adjust as per your taste)
elachi powder - 2 tsp
Others:
ghee - 1/2 cup to fry poli
Instructions
Dough Preparation
1) Take chiroti rava in a wide bowl to this add salt, turmeric powder and mix everything well.
2) Now sprinkle water little by little and mix everything well till get smooth dough.
3) Now add 1/4 cup of oil and knead it well till dough absorbs oil, later add remaining oil and rest it for 2 to 4 hrs by closing lid.
Stuffing/ poornam preparation
1) Wash & soak both toor dal and chana dal in enough water for 1 hr.
2) Now take dal in pressure cooker and add 4 cups of water(for 2 cups of dal add 4 cups of water ) and pressure cook it for 2 whistles.
3) Let the pressure comes down naturally, strain dal and remove water completely. Let it cool to room temperature and becomes bit dry .
4) Now grind cooked dal by adding jaggery to smooth paste and take it into bowl.
5) If prepared poornam is thick then add elachi powder and mix everything well and keep it aside to cool.
6) Otherwise take prepared poornam/puran in kadai, cook it on low to medium flames by adding elachi powder till it becomes thick and then let it cool.
7) Now pinch some dal mixture, mold it as round ball and keep it aside.
Poli preparation
1) Take poli paper which we used to prepare poli or butter paper or banana leaf or any thick cover like oil covers. Add some ghee or oil on it and spread it well, also apply ghee or oil to your hands.
2) Now pinch lemon size dough, spread it like small poori. Then place prepared dal stuffing/puran/pooram and close it without having any pleats as shown.
3) Now press the above with your fingers all the corner and give it round shape as shown.
5) Add ghee on and around poli and fry it for few seconds, later turn it other side and fry till it changes color both sides.
6) Puran poli is ready, take it into plate. Repeat the same process for remaining, serve it hot by adding lots of ghee on it 😋😍.
** Instead of chiroti rava you can also use maida.
** you can also use either toor dal or chana dal.
** Make sure that puran or poornam is thick.
**Inorder to get delicious bobbatlu use ghee to fry poli.
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