Dry fruits poli |How to make poli easy method
ry fruits poli, a no sugar less oil Indian dessert recipe, a healthy version of poli, recipe with step-by-step pictures. Poli also called Obattu, Holige, puran poli, and vermi in different languages, is a sweet loaded with ghee. The stuffing inside the polis varies from place to place as South Indians, and Maharastrians use chana dal and Gujaratis use Toor dal. Apart from these traditional polis we also make different varieties of poli with our creative ideas. I have posted carrot poli, thenga poli apart from the traditional ones with chana dal and the Maharastrian-style puran poli. I still remember the way amma and patti make poli loaded with oil and a super delicious soft polis. They make it in huge batches and even distribute it to our neighbors too. I don’t claim any expertise in making polis the same way she makes, but I can make decent polis. It is more you gain mastery over it by practice. As I do it only once a year for aavani avittam and that too in a very small quantity, my output will not match her level of excellence.
We all are becoming health conscious and running out of time when any festival falls on a weekday. But still, we want to follow the traditions too and I am seeing many young girls around the world are so enthusiastic about doing all the delicacies on a festival day.
I am not sure whether diabetic patients can consume dates and nuts, so I don’t claim these diabetic-friendly sweets but you can call no sugar added sweet. Try this relatively healthy version of poli and enjoy the festival. Also, check out my
- Carrot poli – With video
- Paruppu poli
Dry fruits poli recipe
Ingredients
- ½ cup All-purpose flour | maida
- ½ cup Whole wheat flour
- 2 pinches Turmeric powder
- 1 tbsp Semolina | rava
- a tiny pinch Salt
- Water to knead the dough
For the filling
- 15 Dates
- ¼ cup Almonds
- ¼ cup Walnut
- 2 tbsp Pumpkin seeds
- ¼ tsp Cardamom powder
- 3 tsp Oil
- Ghee to cook the polis
Instructions
- In a wide bowl add the maida, whole wheat flour,sooji, salt and turmeric powder.
- Add water little by little and make a soft dough. It can be slightly looser than the chapathi dough.
- Drizzle the oil on it and cover it and set aside for 2 hours. Even if you can knead the dough in the morning by 8 am and make the poli by 12 noon too.
- For making the stuffing, we are not going to cook anything.
- Take out the seeds from the dates. Grind this in a mixie along with almonds, walnuts, pumpkin seeds and cardamom.
- Do not add any water.
- The mixture may look like a powder but since dates is there it has moisture, so if you hold it with your hands it will easily form a ball.
- The filling is slightly less sweet but for me it's perfect. If you feel it is less, add few more dates or you can add some powdered sugar or jaggery.
- Make the dry fruit mixture into an equal-sized ball.
- Ensure that the filling and the dough portion are the same.
- The filling came for 7 polis whereas the dough was for 8 polis. So adjust a tblsp more of nuts to balance the filling, else you may end up wasting one ball of dough.
- Even if the filling is little extra you can use eat this as it is as it will be like a dry fruits ladoo.
- Grease a butter paper | parchment paper.
- Place the dough ball on the paper.
- Grease one more piece of butter paper, and place it on top of the dough.
- Using a rolling pin make a small disc.
- Take out the butter paper which you kept on the top and place the stuffing in the center.
- Cover the filling with the sides of the dough.
- Place the greased butter paper again on the top.
- Using the rolling pin, roll this into a thin poli.
- I wanted the polis to look even sized, so used a sharp lid to cut a perfect round.
- Transfer this to a hot tawa.
- Cook on both sides in medium flame.
- Drizzle ghee on both sides.
- Serve hot.
- Repeat this for the rest of the dough and filling.
- Every time, grease the parchment paper. This helps in preventing the polis stick to the paper.
Excellent presentation!