Vedhmi (Sweet Stuffed Flatbread)
Puran poli or vedhmi is a sweet version of stuffed chapati from the Gujarat in the Indian subcontinent. It is mainly stuffed with toor dal, but some people use chana dal.
Ingredients
- ½ kg toor dal
- Salt to taste
- 1 tsp cardamom powder
- ½ kg jaggery
- ½ kg wheat flour (maida)
- 100 ml oil
- 1 tsp ghee
Ingredients for 20 servings (1.6 kg) · the original recipe
Method
- 1
Wash and boil the toor dal with water and ½ tsp salt until soft.
Stovetop - 2
Cool slightly and strain the dal using a strainer.
- 3
Add cardamom powder and jaggery to the dal, then grind to make a fine paste. If the paste is sticky, keep it on the heat to dry up completely. This is known as "puran".
- 4
Knead flour with ½ tsp salt and enough water to make a dough. Do not make the dough hard.
- 5
Add oil, and knead the dough again until the oil is absorbed.
- 6
Prepare an equal number of balls from the dough and puran.
- 7
Roll out dough balls to make small un-cooked chapati.
- 8
Stuff each uncooked chapati with a ball of puran.
- 9
Roll them again into stuffed chapati just like stuffed paratha. It is called "poli".
- 10
Heat a griddle and fry each poli.
Stovetop - 11
Brush ghee on both sides when done.
- 12
Serve.
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