Coconut Poli

Ingredients

For dough
• 1 cup of Plain flour
• Water to knead the dough
• Pinch of salt
• Oil

For stuffing
• 1 cup of Coconut
• ½ cup Palm Jaggery
• ¼ cup of Black sesame seeds
• 1 Tablespoon of roasted gram dhal

Method

1. Combine Plain flour, a pinch of salt and oil in a bowl and knead into a soft dough using water. Cover the dough and allow it to rest for 4 hours. This makes the dough to roll easily.
2. Now take a pan, dry roast black sesame seeds and keep it aside.
3. In the same pan dry roast coconut till it leaves its moisture and becomes slightly brown. Switch off the flame and allow it to cool.
4. In a blender take roasted gram dhal and sesame seeds, coarsely powder them. Add in roasted coconut along with the coarse powder and grind them.
5. Once the coconut is mixed well with sesame seeds I the blender, add in palm jaggery (cut into small pieces) and run the blender for 10 secs.
6. Take the coconut and jaggery mixture into a bowl. Coconut Puran is ready for stuffing. Puran has to be thick as we are going to make balls out of it.
7. Roll out one portion of the dough into 4″ diameter circle using a little oil.
8. Place a portion of the coconut filling in the centre and fold the edges of the dough over the filling. Pinch the edges together to seal the filling.
9. Flatten the dough and roll again into 5″ diameter circle, use oil to roll the poli without sticking on the board or kitchen counter.
10. Cook on a tava (griddle) over a medium flame, till it turns golden brown in colour from both the sides.
11. Repeat with the remaining dough and filling.
12. Add a dollop of ghee to each Coconut poli and serve.