Thengaai / Coconut poli

 

Ingredients:

Dough:

All purpose flour - 125 g

Salt - a pinch

Water - As reqd

Turmeric powder - 1/8 tsp

Ghee - 1/2 tbsp

Pooranam/Stuffing:

Coconut - 1/2 of Coconut (grated)

Jaggery - 150 g

Elaichi powder - a pinch

Ghee - 3  tbsp

Method:

• First lets prepare the dough.
• In a bowl add in flour, salt(very little) and turmeric powder.
• Add in water little by little and knead a soft dough.
• Grease the dough with ghee and cover it.
• Set this aside for 2-3 hours.
• Now in a pan add in jaggery and very little water and prepare jaggery syrup.
• Strain this and set aside.
• Now to the same pan add in ghee,
• Add in grated coconut and saute for a while, don't let it turn brown.
• Now add the syrup and mix well.
• Cook in low flame for min 4-5 mins till it is of desired consistency(refer pic).
• Now divide the dough to equal size balls.
• Now divide the stuffing to small size balls.
• Now press the dough with hand and place the stuffing.
• Do as in pic.
• Either use greased butter paper or banana leaaf.
• Spread it with hand.
• Heat a tawa and flip the prepared poli.
• Drizzle ghee and cook both sides.
• Serve hot with a drizzle of ghee.
• Yields 5 poli.