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COCONUT POLI
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Coconut poli recipe

Traditional poli recipe with coconut poornam stuffed inside and cooked in ghee
Prep Time30 minutes
Cook Time30 minutes
resting time2 hours
Total Time3 hours
Course: Festival recipes,, Sweet, Traditional sweet
Cuisine: Indian, South Indian
Keyword: aavani avittam recipes, Festival recipes, Navratri recipes, sweets
Servings: 6 polis
Author: Jeyashri suresh

Ingredients

  • ½ cup plain flour | maida
  • 2 tbsp oil
  • ½ cup grated coconut
  • ½ cup powdered jaggery
  • ¼ tsp cardamom powder
  • A pinch of salt
  • 6 tbsp oil | ghee

Instructions

  • Knead the maida into a soft dough and add 2 tbsp of oil to this. Add a pinch of salt while kneading.
  • Cover and keep it aside for 2 hours.
  • Grate the coconut and finely grind this in a mixer along with jaggery.
  • Add cardamom powder at the last and grind once.
  • In a pan, add ghee and saute the ground coconut and jaggery mixture for 2- 3 minutes. Be careful not to get this burnt.
  • When it is warm, make this into big lemon-sized equal balls.
  • Grease a zip lock cover or butter paper or a banana leaf and place a small lemon-sized dough in this.
  • Grease your fingers with oil and stretch the dough a little with your fingers.
  • Place the filling in this and cover it with the dough as we do for stuffed parathas.
  • With the help of a rolling pin, gently roll this into polis.
  • Do not dust with flour. Just grease the rolling pin with oil.
  • Heat a tawa and transfer this rolled poli gently onto the tawa.
  • When done on one side flip it and cook till golden spots appear on the poli.
  • This will get cooked very fast, so be very careful not to make it burnt.
  • Always cook on medium-low flame.
  • Smear with ghee and take out from the tawa.
  • Repeat this for the rest of the dough.
  • Always serve hot.

Notes

NOTE:
1. The filling came out for 5 polis but 2 small lemon-sized dough was left unused.
2. If you don’t use a generous quantity of oil and ghee poli will not taste nice.
3. Instead of making it with rolling pins, you can use your palms to make polis.
4. In that method, poli will be a little thick.
5. Always make sure that the pooranam(filling) should be more than the dough, else it will be hard and you won’t feel the taste of filling in the poli.