Puran poli recipe | paruppu poli recipe|Bobbatulu| Holige | Obbattu is a traditional sweet generally make during Aavani avittam, Bogi pandigai and some people make it during Ganesha Chathurthi and Ugadi too. I have posted the recipe for THENGAI POLI already.
Paruppu poli recipe updated with full video in Tamil. During my mom’s visit here 2 weeks back I asked her to make puran poli for me and I wanted to learn the procedure of making kadala paruppu poornam. My mom is a super expert in making polis and I still remember my childhood days, she and my grandmother used to make polis in bulk and they happily share with our neighbors too. I and my sister with our friends used to sit outside the kitchen with plates in hand and hot polis smeared with ghee served on our plates. Those days we never care about our weight and eat heartily.
But nowadays we are so diet conscious and nobody wants to stuff themselves with sweets. This recipe yields 11 puran polis and finally, I learned the recipe for making kadalai paruppu poornam from amma, which you have already seen in my MODAKAM -WITH CHANNA DAL POORNAM post. Check out my carrot poli recipe with full Video, Maharashtrian puran poli and no-sugar-added dry fruits poli too.
Paruppu poli recipe
Ingredients
- ¾ cup Maida | Plain flour
- ¼ tsp Turmeric powder
- ¼ tsp salt
- 4 tbsp oil
- Ghee to cook the polis
For poornam
- ½ cup chana dal
- 1/3 cup jaggery
- ½ cup coconut grated
- ½ tsp cardamom powder
- 1 tsp ghee optional
Instructions
- Sieve the flour.
- Add salt and turmeric powder to it. Add water and start kneading the dough.
- Make it into a slightly loose dough.
- The dough should be soft not too tight.
- Now add 3-4 tbsp of oil on the top and cover the dough..
- This oil part is a must one as it will give soft polis.
- Keep it covered for 4-5 hours. The more the time it is kept aside the polis will be softer.
Let’s make poornam now.
- Dry roast the channa dal for 5 minutes. Take care not to get it burnt.
- Soak it in water for 1/2 to 1 hour an hour.
- Pressure cook in high flame for 1 whistle and in low flame for 2 whistles.
- Completely drain the water.
- Let this cool. Once cool, grind this in mixer along with coconut and cardamom powder.
- Grind this smoothly. Add jaggery in the last and pulse once or twice.
- Poornam is done. If you feel the mixture is bit watery, don’t worry. Add ghee in a pan and saute for 5 minutes in a low flame. The poornam will come to the right consistency.
- When it is cool, divide it into 11 equal parts.
Method to make polis
- Divide the dough into 11 equal parts.
- Ensure the size is slightly smaller than the poornam ball
- Take a banana leaf , yes banana leaf works out well for polis. If not available use a zip lock or butter paper , but you have to be careful while transferring it to the tawa.,
- Grease the banana leaf and place a portion of the dough on it.
- Spread it with your fingers into a small disc and place the poornam on it.
- Close the edges.
- With your fingers greased generously with oil gently make polis and make it into a disc shaped one.
- Heat a tawa and keep it in a very low flame.
- Slowly transfer the banana leaf onto the tawa and take it out gently.
- Cook on both sides and smear a tsp of ghee and repeat the same for rest of the dough and poornam.
Video
Notes
- Sieve the flour.
- Add salt and turmeric powder to it. Add water and start kneading the dough.
- Make it into a slightly loose dough.
- The dough should be soft not too tight.
- Now add 3-4 tbsp of oil on the top and cover the dough.
- This oil part is a must one as it will give soft polis.
- Keep it covered for 4-5 hours. The more time it is kept aside the polis will be softer.
- Let’s make poornam now.
- Dry roast the channa dal for 5 minutes. Take care not to get it burnt.
- Soak it in water for 1/2 to 1 hour an hour.
- Pressure cook in high flame for 1 whistle and in low flame for 2 whistles.
- Completely drain the water.
- Let this cool. Once cool, grind this in a mixer along with coconut and cardamom powder.
- Grind this smoothly. Add jaggery in the last and pulse once or twice.
- Poornam is done. If you feel the mixture is a bit watery, don’t worry.
- Add ghee to a pan and saute for 5 minutes on a low flame. The poornam will come to the right consistency.
- When it is cool, divide it into 11 equal parts.
- Divide the dough into 11 equal parts.
- Ensure the size is slightly smaller than the poornam ball
- Take a banana leaf , yes banana leaf works out well for polis. If not available use a zip lock or butter paper, but you have to be careful while transferring it to the tawa.,
- Grease the banana leaf and place a portion of the dough on it.
- Spread it with your fingers into a small disc and place the poornam on it.
- Cover the edges.
- With your fingers greased generously with sesame oil gently make polis and make it into a disc-shaped one.
- Heat a tawa and keep it in a very low flame.
- Slowly transfer the banana leaf onto the tawa and take it out gently.
- Cook on both sides and smear a tsp of ghee.
- Repeat the same for the rest of the dough and poornam.
NOTES:
- Adding oil after making the dough is compulsory. Else polis will be hard and dry.
- The dough should be a bit loose, else it will be difficult for you to make polis.
- Let the poornam be stiff, if watery it will come out while making polis.
- Check out my wheat flour coconut poli recipe as well.
These poli look so tempting and delicious. Too yummy!
It looks tempting…craving to eat them now,just love them
Delicious poli, pass me here 😉
Perfectly made polis, I wish I could taste it. Missed it,psst psst 😉
Lovely clicks too
Delicious Polis.. They look perfect.. 🙂
Looks tempting jey,just love them..craving them very badly
Delicious they look.. Perfectly made polis.. Parcel plz!…
Delicious and so perfectly done. Bookmarking and thank you for sharing the recipe 🙂
Delicious looking polis.. I love this one, such a tempting traditional sweet it is 🙂
Loved the making pics informative post
irresistible clicks of poli….truely delicious
love these.. suda suda poli wow i can imagine it..
yummy !!! jeyashri !
lovely poli…. Bookmarking it… Will try it…
yummy…we all love this
Looks so perfectly done and ofcoz when mom doing it cant be wrong ..very tempting ..nice pics
Delicious one n my most favorite poli… Love it…
I love puran polis…yummy
perfect polis adn love the method you tried with banana leaf as we make this in home
done nicely.. looks so yummy
My favorite..very tempting….awesome clicks…
Made made poli is always delicious.
those clicks show how irresistibly yummy this dish is
poli looks incredibly so soft and delicious..super tempting clicks..
Oh you are tempting me jeyashri….my all time fav
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MMmmm….delicious looking poli…love it
Beautiful Post . Bookmarked it
This one is my favorite poli..Looks very very tempting..nice clicks too.
Almost, if you want to get flaky polis you have add the amount of oil mentioned. If not it will come out hard .
very nice
how long it will stay outside (room temperature) in a airtight container ?
This will stay for a day in room temperature
Thank you for sharing the receipe. I tried it for ugadi, it came out well.
hai jeya shri madam, how are you? your receipes all of as good. nice explain for beginners. easy to understand for beginners. because, step by step explain for video explain pictures. thanks for your receipes.
I hv a doubt, adding the jaggery directly like with out removing the impurities!!! is ok? bks normally jaggery contains impurities!!!
Hmm true but removing impurities in solid jaggery is not possible and also melting it and filtering the impurities and adding to channa dal mixture will make the poornam watery. So have to look for good quality vellam and make it
Actually 2-3 tsp of warm oil will do.. We can make the dough with water… It will be soft…
Thanks for the message. This practise of kneading in oil is followed in our home for more than 30 years, Don't know where u went wrong.Will update a video of kneading flour sometime
Even i am wondering why this is happening. Will definitely update it with a video.
I will soon try this out again and post with video. As i said my mom generally makes likes this only.
Can it be stored for a week
You can store in the refrigerator for 3-4 days. When you want take it out , either microwave for a minute and serve or heat a pan and reheat this and serve.
Hi Jeyashri instead of maida regular wheat flour roti atta can be used without salt. Also we used to mix Chanadal and jaggery and cook in stove with little bit ghee. If it oozes lot of water I used to put in microwave and then put in mixer. Then fill it into regular atta and make. In Maharashtra it's a popular dish and I happened to live there for a decade so got to know this recepie from friends. I hope it was useful. Again thanks for your recepies it's very useful and here my Boston USA friends are all your fan and we follow your recepies.
Thank you so much for the feedback poornima. I have posted the maharastian version of pooran poli too – https://www.jeyashriskitchen.com/2016/04/maharastrian-style-puran-poli-indian.html
Hi Jeyashree, I'm a big fan of your blog. I have tried many of your recipes n it was great in taste. As I live in New Jersey, USA I use aluminum foil to make poli instead of banana leaves. It's safe n easy to make polis.
Thank you so much nalini – you ca use zip lock too.
Can we make the poli purnam without coconut? Please guide as Ugadi is on 06/04/2019.
I haven't tried skipping coconut, you can skip but ensure to make the consistency of the poornam thick. If you are diet conscious you can try dry fruits poli. Check out my recipe.
What to do if the poornam becomes loose and if we don’t get to shape like balls
You can saute the poornam in a kadai for few more minutes and cool completely and make balls. A tsp of rice flour can be added too.