COCONUT POLI / THENGAI POLI

This is one of all time favourite dish of my family. Usually stuffing is prepared for poli using chenna dhal and jaggery. It might be time consuming to cook dhal first and grind along with jaggery to make the stuffing/puran. In this recipe, stuffing is very easy and simple to prepare. Just grate the coconut in a mixer/grater and cook for few minutes along with jaggery. 

• Paruppu Poli

• Khoya Poli / Palkova poli

INGREDIENTS:

 Maida/All purpose flour - 1 cup

Whole wheat flour - 1/4 cup

Coconut grated - 1 cup

Jaggery - 3/4 cup

Cardamom powder - 1/4 tsp

Ghee - 1 tsp

Salt

Oil

METHOD: 

1. In a bowl, add maida and wheat flour along with little salt and make a soft sticky dough by adding water. Smear 2 to 3 tsp of oil and knead the dough and keep aside.

2. In a tawa, add grated coconut and jaggery and cook on low flame till the water content of the jaggery goes off and gets blended. Add cardamom powder and ghee, mix well.

3. After it cools down, make into lemon sized balls. Stuffing/ Puran is ready.

 

4. Grease a banana leaf/butter paper/plastic sheet with little oil.

5. Take lemon sized dough, spread the dough a little with fingers. Grease fingers with little oil before spreading the dough.

6. Place the stuffing/puran on the dough and close on all sides. Roll it gently so that the ball is even.

7. Using a rolling pin, gently roll into polis. Else, smear some oil on palm and spread the stuffed dough gently.

8. Heat a tawa, transfer the poli, cook well on both sides till brown spots appear. Sprinkle little oil.

9. Tasty COCONUT PURAN POLI is ready to be served with ghee as topping.

Note:

• Broken Coconut can be refrigerated in freezer compartment, so that grating it will be easy. Just the white part alone gets separated.  The brown part doesn't stick to the coconut pieces.