Name: Paal Poli recipe by Swathi Joshnaa Sathish at BetterButter
Prep time: 100 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 120 min
Yield: 10
Ingredients: All purpose flour / Maida 240 grams; Sooji 1 ladleful; Salt a pinch; Turmeric powder 1/2 teaspoon; Ghee 1 teaspoon for the dough; Ghee / Oil for deep frying; Milk 4 big glasses; Cardamom powder 1 teaspoon; Almonds 10 chopped; Cashews 10 chopped; Pistachios 10 for garnishing; Saffron strands 3 soaked in a ladleful of milk .; Palm candies 3 tablespoons

Ingredients Serving: 10

All purpose flour / Maida 240 grams
Sooji 1 ladleful
Salt a pinch
Turmeric powder 1/2 teaspoon
Ghee 1 teaspoon for the dough
Ghee / Oil for deep frying
Milk 4 big glasses
Cardamom powder 1 teaspoon
Almonds 10 chopped
Cashews 10 chopped
Pistachios 10 for garnishing
Saffron strands 3 soaked in a ladleful of milk .
Palm candies 3 tablespoons

Instructions

Take 240grams Maida . Add a pinch of salt , 1/2 teaspoon of turmeric . 1 teaspoon ghee .
and 1 ladleful sooji in a bowl . Knead all together using little water into a soft poli dough .
Cover the dough . Allow the poli dough to rest for an hour minimum.
Take 4 glasses of full fat milk in a sauce pan .
Boil the milk .
Add 3 tablespoons palm candies ,a teaspoon of freshly ground Cardamom to the boiling milk .
Keep stirring the milk occasionally . Add the saffron induced milk , chopped almonds and cashews .
Boil the milk till it reduces to half .
Now make small balls ought of the poli dough and roll into thin polis.
Fold the rolled thin poli. Connect left end with right end .
Heat ghee/ oil for deep frying the polis . Drop in the polis and fry either sides .
The oil needn’t be too hot . The polis should look yellow and mustn’t look dark , crusty.
Drain the excess oil / ghee and drop the fried polis into the hot flavoured milk .
Milk must be simmering while the polis are added . Let the polis soak for 2 minutes . Flip sides.
Switch off the milk after all the polis are added . Serve the soaked polis with the thick flavoured
milk poured over the polis . Enjoy !

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