Paal Poori (Poori soaked in milk). Paal Poli li is an authentic and traditional dish. Deep fried poori soaked in a tasty milk reduction. I can eat it all day:-) Reducing the milk for hours together gives a great taste but for a lazy cook like me who always looks for a quick instant version in all my cooking, Evaporated milk is a great saver. paal poli recipe
Here's why: Paal Poori is a delicious dessert which, true to its name, is pooris soaked in sweetened, thickened milk and then garnished with roasted cashew nuts and almonds.
Chop the almonds into fine pieces and sprinkle it over the paal poli.
Let the poori soaked in the milk for an hour.
You can have Paal Poori (Poori soaked in milk) using 12 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Paal Poori (Poori soaked in milk)
- Prepare 2 c of all purpose flower.
- Prepare 1 tsp of sugar.
- Prepare 1 c of milk.
- You need of Oil as needed for frying.
- Prepare 6 c of Almond milk (store bought).
- You need 1 c of brown sugar or sugar.
- You need A few of saffron threads.
- You need 1 tsp of Cardamom powder.
- You need 1 tsp of nutmeg freshly grated.
- You need 1 tsp of Athimadhuram (Tamil) “Liquorice root” in English, freshly grated.
- It's 1/4 c of Pistachio-coarsely powdered.
- It's 1/4 c of cashews, coarsely powdered.
The pooris has to be served along with the milk. Just for taking pictures i have separated poori and milk. Paal Poli ~ Pooris Soaked in Sweetened n Flavored Milk!. Add to the flour mix little by little and knead well until you get a soft pliable dough like poori dough.
Paal Poori (Poori soaked in milk) step by step
- Make the dough in a bowl, add milk to flour plus sugar little by little, and knead to make a smooth shiny ball. I usually make a snake out of it; cut it into small pieces, about 10. Each piece makes a small ball. Roll the ball to make small poori. Fry one by one in hot oil in a heavy saucepan over high heat. Place poories on a paper towel to remove excess oil..
- In a heavy saucepan over medium heat, heat almond milk about 10 minutes. Add sugar. Stir in saffron, cardamom and Athimadhuram. Turn off the heat. Soak poories in hot almond milk or milk. Sprinkle powdered pistachio and cashews. Let Pall poories sit at room temperature for 30 minutes. Serve hot or cold.
Whole pooris soaked in milk as such weren't looking pretty in pictures. So had to revise the garnish idea to make the dessert prettier. Paal poli recipe, a classic South Indian dessert where pooris are dunked in cardamom flavored, reduced sweetened milk. Paal poli is a rich, milk-based, delicious South Indian sweet. I have been fortunate to savor this classic sweet at a friend's wedding eons ago.
