Thengai Poli
The South Indian Poli Recipe is a very traditional recipe that is made with a combination of lentils, spices and coconut. The addition of coconut along with cardamon in the filling gives the poli a rich and delicious taste. The Poli is most often made during the festivals like Pongal or special occasions such as Aavai avittam.
Prep Time
60minutes
Cook Time
30minutes
Prep Time
60minutes
Cook Time
30minutes
Ingredients
Instructions
  1. Sieve wheat flour and salt. Transfer the flour to a mixing bowl and knead to a very soft dough adding enough water. Add ghee and knead again. Close it and keep aside for 2 hours. In the meanwhile, to prepare sweet stuffing, heat a pan or kadai. Add 1 tsp ghee.
  2. Now add grated coconut, cardamom powder and palm jaggery. Stir well everything on low flame for 5-8 mins till all the moisture is absorbed. Remove from the heat and allow to cool. Take the dough and divide into equal sized balls.
  3. Take a plastic sheet or banana leaf. Grease with little oil. Take the sweet mixture and make small balls. Take a dough ball and flatten it a bit with your fingers. Keep the sweet ball at the center of the disc. Close it from all the sides and press over the greased plastic sheet or banana leaf. Now, press the ball to make poli. Poli should not be very thick or very thin.
  4. Heat a tava and place the prepared poli. apply ghee / oil all over the sides of poli and cook till brown spots appear on both the sides. Similarly proceed with the remaining.
  5. Store poli in an airtight container. If you are serving it on the same day, then keep poli at the room temperature. But, if you are going to serve it on the next day, then keep it in refrigerator and at the time of serving, bring poli to room temperature. Or you can reheat poli in microwave.