Puran Poli - Stuffed Sweet Indian Bread. Its a sweet stuffed flat bread. The stuffing is made up of Chana dal and jaggrey. Its super delicious and very feeling.

In some places along with Bengal gram, little coconut is added in the stuffing. Some use sugar instead of jaggery to make the stuffing sweet. But my choice is Bengal gram with coconut and jaggery as it. You can cook Puran Poli - Stuffed Sweet Indian Bread using 7 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Puran Poli - Stuffed Sweet Indian Bread

You need 1 cup of pigeon peas Split yellow (toor dal).
You need 2 tablespoons of butter Clarified (ghee).
Prepare 1 & 1/3 cups of Sugar.
You need 1 & 1/2 cups of Wheat flour.
It's 1/4 teaspoon of Saffron.
It's 1 teaspoon of cardamom Green powder.
It's 1/4 teaspoon of Nutmeg powder.

I don't know whether other countries combine flour and lentils in a sweet dish quite as deliciously as we do in India. The Parsis have their Dar ni Pori, a thick, toothsome layer of sweetened toor dal ensconced within a pastry shell. Puran Poli - An Indian delicacy made by stuffing soft whole wheat dough with soft cooked yellow lentils, jaggery/brown sugar, cardamom, nutmeg and I would beg my Mom to make me a plain bread without the sweet stuffing, but she never entertained my request. Rule was to eat at least one before.

Puran Poli - Stuffed Sweet Indian Bread instructions

 Mix 1 cup of split yellow pigeon peas with 2 cups of water. Put it in a vessel and pressure cook it for 2-3 whistles with some water in pressure cooker..
Churn the dal with a hand blender..
Add the blended mixture in a round bottom pan on a slow or medium flame..
Once it is hot, add sugar. Stir it well till the sugar melts..
Reduce the flame and let the mixture heat up for some time..
In a mixing bowl, take 1 & 1/2 cup of wheat flour. Add 1 & 1/2 tbsp. of clarified butter (ghee) Add water and knead the dough for a roti..
Roll a little bit of clarified butter over the dough so that it doesn't dry out. Keep the dough aside for 10-15 minutes..
Once the dal mixture is boiling hot, add few saffron sprigs. Stir the mixture continuously so that it doesn't stick to the bottom of the pan..
Once the mixture thickens, add all the powdered flavourings (green cardamom powder, nutmeg powder and 1 tbsp. clarified butter.) Stir well..
After the mixture thickens completely and is difficult to stir, its ready. Keep it aside for some time and let it cool down completely..
Once it cools down, take 1 inch small balls out of the mixture..
Make small round ball (bigger than that of the mixture balls) of the dough as well and roll them into a small roti..
Place the sweet mixture ball in the centre of the roti and cover it by overturning the roti. Cut the edges with a sharp edged bowl and roll again carefully..
Cook the roti by applying clarified butter (ghee) on both the sides and flipping it over the pan as required..
Serve the rotis with clarified butter (ghee) or milk..

Puran Poli also called as Bobbatlu or Obbatu is a sweet flat bread stuffed with a mixture of dal (lentil), coconut and jaggery. Its a very popular dish made during Bobbatlu (Andhra), Obbatu (Karnataka) or Puran poli (Maharashtra) is a traditional Indian sweet flat bread made of toor dal or chana dal. Puran Poli is a flatbread with a sweet lentil filling. This is a popular bread in the state of Gujarat and Place the puran poli in the skillet. When start to change color, flip it over.