போளி போய் புது ஸ்வீட் ஆச்சு !!! - Story of a reborn Sweet!

Now, we all eagerly await the hm! smell of Poli on any day. I tried to make it on New Year's day! and in the process discovered a new sweet.

Soak bengal gram, boil and grind to a smooth paste.- instead I used "bengal gram powder". In boiling jaggery, add the powder and grated cocoanut. This was done successfully. Now take some "all purpose flour" or "maida" as we know it, mix it with little bit oil or butter and water and smoothly roll into a big spherical dough. Then take small quantities and roll into circular shapes. Place a small ball (size of lollipop or less) of the sweet mix, close and roll out into a circular shape, very much like a papad.

I hit the wall here, it was too smooth and would have qualified for gum; so I added some wheat flour - it was sitting pretty glum and refusing to roll out the red carpet (in this case the dough)!
Then I discovered, it was urad flour to begin with and not maida!

Hurriedly found maida and started all over again. By now my patience was running out, and so I closed the ends with the sweet mix and made them like mini samosas. By now the vadas were done, so I gently dropped one of them into the pan. It puffed beautifully and (ofcourse a little of the sweet stuff in the center peeped out), and when I took it out, smelt good and tasted v good.

Then the rest is history. Bye, bye to Poli and I embraced the new sweet with all my heart:-) This is the same sweet stuffed with sugar+cocoanut mix, that is famous with Telugu and Kannada speaking people. It just took a rebirth with jaggery stuffing instead of sugar!

Try it, I am sure you will love it!

Happy cooking!