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TRADITIONAL AND AUTHENTIC MAHARASHTRIAN TEL POLI RECIPE

TRADITIONAL MAHARASHTRIAN TEL POLI

BY SHWETA GALINDE

You might be familiar with Puranpoli. Puran Poli is a traditional Maharashtrian treat to satisfy our sweet tooth. With some variations in the recipe, Puran Poli is made in the other parts of India and known as Holige or Bobattalu or Parappu. Puran Poli is a unique dish that blends so-called savoury ingredients such as wheat flour and chana dal with sugar or jaggery to form a sweet flatbread.

Telpoli is similar to Puranpoli . Telpoli is rolled and roasted using a generous amount of oil. However, interestingly enough, telpoli does not turn out to be oily. Adding oil while roasting ensures that the ‘poli’ or the flatbread stays fresh for an extended period. It simply melts in your mouth when you eat it. 

Tel Poli –  a variant of Puran poli made with generous amount of oil. Puran poli is a traditional Maharashtrian dish made for special ocassions like Holi, Ganesh Chaturthi, Gudi Padva etc.  Telpoli is similar to Puranpoli, the only variation being the usage of generous amount of oil. Telpoli can be served with katachi amti as a main course dish . It also makes for a great tea time /tiffin box snack.

The recipe for tel poli though not difficult, is a bit tricky. The dough has to be kneaded really well so that it becomes very soft and smooth which in turn will make  the outer covering very thin. The filling (puran) needs to be of right consistency so that tel polis can be rolled out easily. After rolling the tel polis, they have to be gently lifted and placed on the pan to prevent breaking of the polis.

These polis are crispy in texture . Here in this recipe we use sugar and not jaggery .

INGREDIENTS

  • Refined Flour or wheat flour – 1/2  cup
  • Semolina / fine rava – 2 cup
  • Oil 2 tbsp
  • Split Bengal gram (chana dal) 250 grms
  • Sugar 250 grms
  • Green cardamom powder ½ tsp
  • Oil ½  cup

METHOD FOR DOUGH – traditionally the dough is made using fine rava .But you can use flour also.

Sieve maida, add rawa, 2 tbsp oil and sufficient water and knead into a soft smooth dough. Cover with a damp cloth, keep it aside. [ The rava absorbs the water and puffs up.So make a loose dough ]

METHOD FOR STUFFING – https://maryzkitchen.com/authentic-puran-poli/

Soak chana dal for 2 hrs . Pressure cook with enough water till 1 whistle . let the pressure release on own.Once done transfer the cooked dal to a strainer to drain out excess water .Now press it through the same strainer to mash it .

Take sugar in a pan .Add pinch of salt and the mashed dal and mix well.

Keep on full flame and cook .

Stir and cook till the sugar melts completely.

Add the cardamom pwdr and mix .

Now cook on medium flame till the mixture thickens and starts leaving the edges of the pan .Don’t make it very thick .

Allow it to cool .

The mixture thickens. Divide into  equal portions.

METHOD FOR MAKING THE POLIS [ check the short video below ]

Divide the dough into equal portions and roll into smooth balls.

Flatten it bit and stuff the puran ball inside .

Bring the edges together and roll into smooth balls.

Repeat this procedure with all the dough and stuffing.

Soak these stuffed balls in ½ cup oil

Remove one stuffed ball and roll out the stuffed balls into very thin roundels using oil . Stretch the poli as much as you can.

Don’t use flour for rolling .Check the video .

Heat a tawa and cook the polis on medium heat applying a little oil, till light golden on both sides.

Store when completely cooled. This poli can be stored for long durations.

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