Eggless Bars/Brownies Eggless Breads Eggless Cakes/Cupcakes Eggless Cookies Eggless Muffins Submit Your Eggless Recipe
About Egg Substitutes Silken Tofu Recipes Flax Seed Meal Recipes Pureed Fruit Recipes Ener-G Recipes Vinegar Recipes Yogurt/Buttermilk Recipes
Baking Measurements Flour Substitutions

Puran Poli with an Apple Twist For Open Sesame Contest

Apple Puran Poli

For this month’s Open Sesame 2 Contest I chose box no.1 and got the following riddle:

“A moniker in my name for a city
A phrase with me will make you cherished
I am so good for you in my utter simplicity
In Medical dictionary the fact so furnished

I am so famous in the world of bytes
Known for many aspects of usage
I am fat and rotound and make crunchy bites
My fame known from many religious traditions – right from the old age

Am, I forbidden? Or mystical ?
or the eternal giver of Youth
I consists of five internal carpels
Am good for good health of your mouth

I am as basic a fruit as you can think of
Or as hard if you dont try enough
If You eat me on a day to day basis
Then you dont have worry about anything – be it cold or dry cough”

At first I thought that it was difficult because Siri had mentioned that this month’s clue will be difficult than the previous month.  The mind was playing it’s trick telling me that it was difficult even before I could read the riddle completely.  But once I gave it a thorough reading, I was able to guess the answer right away.  That’s a brilliant riddle DK!

I was wondering what I can cook using apples apart from the famous pie and milkshake.  I was searching Food network’s site for some interesting recipes.  Then I saw an announcement for another event “Sweet Series”, this month’s theme being puran poli.  All of a sudden I got the idea of making an apple poli.  I thought of making apple halwa, like carrot halwa and then stuffing it inside the all purpose flour dough to make polis.  To my surprise it turned out very very tasty.  The halwa was so delicious by itself and so was the poli too.  Thanks once again DK and Siri, I would have not come up with this recipe if it was not for your  contest.

As it was my test recipe, I tried it with small quantities only.  But the next time I make this poli I’m going to double the measurements.

For the dough:
All purpose flour (maida) – 1 cup
Salt – pinch
Ghee – 1 tablespoon

For the stuffing:
Apple, small, grated – 1 (be sure to check that it’s sweet)
Milk Khoa (Khova, Mawa) grated or crumbled – 1/4 to 1/2 cup
Sugar – 2 tablespoons (or as per taste)
Cardamom powder – 1/2 teaspoon
Ghee – 2 teaspoons
Powdered dhalia – optional

Khoa and Apple

 
Procedure:
1.  Combine all purpose flour, salt and water to form a ball of dough, just like chapathi dough.  Then add the ghee and knead it thoroughly.  Cover the dough and let it sit for atleast one hour.

2.  Cut the top and bottom of the apple. 

Cut top of apple

 3.  Slice the apple.

Slice the apple all the way

4.  Peel the skin. 

Peel the skin

5.  Grate the apple slices. 

Grate Apple

 Grated apple, grated khoa and sugar.

Grated Apple, Sugar and Grated Khoa

6.  For the halwa/puran, add the ghee in a microwave safe bowl and the grated apples, cook it for 2 minutes. 

7.  Then add the sugar and khoa to the cooked apples.  

Add sugar

 

Add Khoa

8.  Cook it for another 3 minutes or until you don’t smell raw apples.  Alternatively you can prepare this on stove top also.  Add 2 teaspoons of ghee in a frying pan and sautee the grated apples, until they are cooked well.  Then add the sugar, let it dissolve and then add the khoya and combine it toghether.  If this mixture is a bit watery add some more khoya or the powdered dhalia, so that the stuffing will hold together properly.

Microwave the mix

 Apple puran and all purpose flour dough.

Prepare dough

9.  Now divide the dough into 4 equal size balls.  Also take 4 equal portions of the stuffing.  Make the stuffing smaller in size than the dough.  Eat the rest of the halwa just like that.  Everybody will ask for more.

10.  Roll the dough into a small circle.

Flatten the dough

 11.  Place one portion of the stuffing on the the rolled out dough.

Place the mix on the dough

 12.  Cover the stuffing using the dough.

Collapse the dough edges

 

Close dough edges

13.  Press the tip of the dough and flatten it into a disc. 

Flatten the top

 14.  Roll out the stuffed dough into a circle, like roti.

Reflatten the dough

 

finalize the dough

 15.  Meanwhile pre heat the tava (griddle).  Place the poli on the hot tava, cook it on both sides, applying little ghee.

Put it on tava

The taste was unbelievable!  I was really proud of my creation.  My mother and my son loved it very much.

This also goes to Mythreyee’s Sweet Series Event – Puran Poli, Sweet Chapathis/Rotis.

Share and Enjoy:
  • E-mail this story to a friend!
  • Digg
  • StumbleUpon
  • del.icio.us
  • Mixx
  • Google
  • Furl
  • IndianPad
  • Reddit
  • Yahoo! Buzz
  • HealthRanker
  • Tumblr
  • Wikio

You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Related Posts
Mango Halwa Potato Paratha with a twist. Vegan Apple Cake Event Announcement: AFAM – October 2008 Apple Raisin Mini Muffins Finger Millet Sweet Dumplings aka Ragi Kozhukattai Pureed Fruit as Egg Substitute – Round Up Mashed Beans Roti Golu Photos and Rice Flour Puttu

37 Responses to “Puran Poli with an Apple Twist For Open Sesame Contest”

Pages: [3] 2 1 » Show All

  1. 37
    Ramya Says:

    Wow, thats fantastic. Loved the touch of apple and your step by step illustration. Will definitely try this recipe sometime..

    Cheers,

    Ramya

  2. 36
    Aditi Says:

    Wow!!! So innovative of you….great recipe…..i love apples…so this is going to be in my to do list!!! :)

  3. 35
    Mansi Says:

    simply fantastic madhu! the apple twist does sound lovely, and healthy too! and your puran-poli looks mouth-watering indeed!!

  4. 34
    Rajani Says:

    lovely recipe!!! i love sweet polis and this is definitely doable – should try it with carrot as well!

  5. 33
    Maheswari Says:

    Just had dinner and now i am drooling..I am trying hard to watch my weight girl!
    Loved it..and stuffing superb…will try this as soon as i buy kowa..pretty soon.
    I have updated AFAM list.Thanks for reminding me..

  6. 32
    Madhuram Says:

    Thank you very much each and everyone of your for your wonderful comments. Just be sure to check the sweetness of the apple before preparing this poli. Fortunately the apple I bought was very sweet.

    Laksh, thank you so much. We will meet sometime very soon and I’ll cook something very special. It’s a deal.

    SS, yes to my surprise my test recipes come out well. Hope to get lucky a lot more.

    Dee, I would be more than happy to have you here.

  7. 31
    Rajitha Says:

    how cool!! love the step by step pics too…yummy!

Pages: [3] 2 1 » Show All

Leave a Reply

Link to this recipe:

If you have a website and would like to link to this recipe, simply copy (Ctrl + C) and paste the code below. It will look like this: Puran Poli with an Apple Twist For Open Sesame Contest



XML Sitemap