How To Make Puran Poli in Maharashtrian Style

Puran Poli Recipe in English

Puran Poli is one of the most famous sweets of Maharashtra, which is eaten with great love by everyone from children to adults. This dish is specially made on the occasion of Ganesh Chaturthi and Diwali. Puran Poli is usually a type of roti in which stuffing is done by mixing gram lentils and jaggery. Apart from jaggery, we can also use sugar and cardamom powder in it. Actually, Puran Poli is made from many pulses. But Puran Poli made from gram lentils is more popular. So, let's know about the method of making it and the ingredients used in it. Hope you like this recipe. 

Ingredients

For Puran:

-1 cup chana dal

-¼ tsp turmeric powder

-¼ tsp salt

-3 cups water

-1 tsp oil

-1 cup jaggery/sugar

-¼ tsp nutmeg powder

-¼ tsp cardamom powder

For the dough:

-2 cups wheat flour

-½ cup all-purpose flour

-¼ tsp turmeric

-¼ tsp salt

-Water, for kneading

Other Ingredients:

-¼ cup wheat flour

-Oil/ghee for frying

Puran Poli in Maharashtrian Style

Instructions

How to make Puran:

1. Firstly, take 1 cup chana dal in a large bowl and soak it in enough water for 3 hours. Some chana dal needs to be soaked for just ½ hour.

2. Now, in a pressure cooker, place a vessel filled with water at the bottom of the cooker. Add ¼ tsp turmeric, ¼ tsp salt, 3 cups water and 1 tsp oil to the soaked chana dal. Cook on medium flame till 5 whistles. When the pressure reduces, open the cooker and drain the water. Leave it for 30 minutes, making sure that all the water from the chana dal drains out.

3. Put the cooked chana dal in a pan and add 1 cup jaggery to it. Mix well till the jaggery melts. Keep mixing while mashing the chana dal. Cook till the mixture thickens and separates from the pan. The mixture will start taking its shape. Cool the mixture a little and put it in the mixer. Also, add ¼ tsp nutmeg powder and ¼ tsp cardamom powder. Make a smooth paste without adding water. Now place a sieve over a large bowl and pour the prepared mixture.

4. Strain the chana dal mixture through a sieve. This will ensure that no chana dal remains. Puran is ready.

Preparing the dough for Puran Poli:

1. Firstly, take 2 cups wheat flour, ½ cup maida, ¼ tsp turmeric and ¼ tsp salt in a large mixing bowl. Mix well and make sure everything is well combined. Now add water as required and knead the dough well. Knead well to make a smooth and soft dough.

2. Add 1 tbsp of oil and continue kneading the dough. Knead to make a very smooth and soft dough. Then apply 1 tsp oil and keep it covered for 30 minutes.

Making Puran Poli:

- Firstly, take a ball-sized dough and flatten it well.

- Also take a ball-sized Puran (chana dal stuffing)

- Place the Puran in the center of the dough.

-Fill the stuffing in the Puran and tightly cut the excess dough.

-Further, sprinkle wheat flour on the ball and flatten it with your hand.

-Keep in mind that the Puran poli should be thin and should not tear from the center so that the stuffing comes out, so roll it in one direction only.

-Now, place the rolled Puran poli on a hot pan.

-Cook it on a medium flame till it puffs up.

-Apply oil/ghee on it and cook by flipping and pressing lightly on both sides.

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Aamras Recipe: How to Make Sweet Mango Pulp in English

 Mango is not called the king of fruits for nothing. It is the favorite fruit of almost everyone, be it children or adults. As soon as the summer season starts, people start eagerly waiting for mangoes to arrive in the market. Mango is used in many types of dishes like mango panna, mango juice, mango papad, mango ice cream, mango milk shake, mango lassi etc. Mango juice is also one of those delicious dishes. It can be easily made at home. Let's know about the step-by-step recipe to make delicious mango juice.

Ingredients:

-2-3 ripe mangoes.

-1 cup cold milk.

-2 tablespoons sugar.

-2 tablespoons prepared milk.

-1/4 teaspoon cardamom powder.

-1 tablespoon chopped nuts.

Sweet Mango Pulp (Aamras)

Instructions:

- First of all, wash and peel the mangoes thoroughly.

- Cut the mangoes into small pieces and put them in a blender and grind them till they become soft.

- Now filter the mango juice through a sieve.

- Now, add sugar to the mango juice as per taste. If the mango is sweet, then reduce the amount of sugar as per your requirement.

- To enhance its taste, you can add cardamom powder or some dry fruits to it, if you like then add it or else do not add it.

- Cool it in the fridge and serve. Mango juice tastes very delicious when it is cold.

- Fresh, tasty, and nutritious mango juice is ready. You can serve it cold and enjoy it like Thandai in summer.

- We can also eat it with fluffy Puri.

Points to note:

-Before making mango juice, taste the mango to see if it is sweet or not, so that you do not have to regret it later. And keep in mind that the mango should be good from the outside and inside and not spoiled.

-You should not eat curd immediately after eating mango, as doing so can cause you a lot of harm, and the amount of carbon dioxide in the stomach increases a lot, which can cause you a stomachache.

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 Handvo is a delicious and easy-to-make dish. It looks exactly like a cake, but its taste is somewhat sour and salty. To make it, lentils, rice, many types of vegetables like bottle gourd, carrot, peas etc. are ground and mixed well. To make Handvo, it is necessary to have a fermented batter, instead of this we can also use readymade batter available in the market. To make the batter, soaked lentils and rice are ground well with curd and kept for 8-10 hours for fermenting. After the batter is fermented, vegetables of your choice are added to it and a round cake is made. We can make Handvo in a pan, cooker or even in the oven. We have to keep one thing in mind that the mixture of lentils and rice should be coarse. Apart from this, we make Handvo with readymade batter. To make Handvo, we can use all three methods given above. Let us know the method of making it and the ingredients used in it.

Ingredients:

-1 cup rice

-1/4 cup tur dal

-1/2 cup chana dal

-2 tbsp urad dal

-1/2 cup curd

-1/2 cup bottle gourd juice

-1/2 cup peas

-1 cup grated carrot

-1/4 tbsp turmeric powder

-1 tsp ginger, garlic and green chilli paste

-1/2 baking soda

-1 tsp lemon juice

-1 tsp oil

-Salt to taste

For tempering

-1 tsp mustard seeds

-1 tsp cumin seeds

-3 tsp sesame seeds

-A pinch of asafoetida

-10-12 curry leaves

-3 tbsp oil

Gujrati Handvo Recipe

Instructions:

1. First of all, wash the rice thoroughly and soak it in 1 cup of water. After that, wash all the pulses (arhar dal, chana dal and urad dal) with water and soak them in 1 to 1.5 cups of water. You can also soak dal and rice together.

2. After soaking for 4-5 hours, drain the excess water from it. And grind it well. While grinding, add some salt and curd to it. Grind it till it becomes soft. If needed, you can also add 1-2 teaspoons of water to it. Do not use too much water.

3. Now keep it for fermenting just like the idli-dosa batter. Take a medium-sized vessel, take out the ground batter in it. Leave it for fermenting for 8-10 hours and keep it in a warm place.

4. When it gets fermented better then stir it well. After fermentation you will see small bubbles in it. Now add grated bottle gourd, carrots or green peas, ginger garlic green chilli paste, 1 tsp oil and turmeric powder and mix it well.

5. While mixing everything, keep in mind that it is very important for the batter to be thick. If the batter has become a little thin then don't worry, you can thicken it by adding 1-2 tbsp of rava/semolina to it.

6. Now add 1/2 baking soda and mix it well. Now take a pan for tempering and heat it. After this add 1 tsp oil in it, after the oil is heated add mustard seeds, cumin seeds, sesame seeds and a pinch of asafoetida and let it crackle well. Also add 2-3 curry leaves in it.

7. Now according to the size of the pan, put half a cup of batter in the pan. You can increase or decrease the size as per your requirement. So spread it well with the help of a spoon. Keep in mind that the thickness of the handvo should be at least 1 inch.

8. Steam the pan/kadhai well and when it is cooked on one side, flip it. It will take at least 4-5 minutes to cook on one side, or it can take 10-12 minutes to cook on both sides. One thing is that the time taken to cook on one side also depends on how thick your hadvo is.

9. Now take out the cooked Handva in a plate. Now prepare the remaining batter in the same way. We can eat it in the morning breakfast with tea or chutney or in the evening breakfast also.

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 Aloo Pudi is a recipe that can be prepared and eaten anytime for breakfast, lunch or dinner. Aloo Masala is prepared by mashing tomatoes and onions and then adding boiled potatoes to it. It is made in an authentic and different way from any common Indian curry. It requires very little time and less ingredients to prepare. It is a perfect masala curry to be served with fluffy pudi, apart from this it can be served with Indian flour roti or white rice. Let us know the ingredients and the method to make it.

Delicious Aloo Masala And Pudi

Ingredients:

To boil potatoes

-1 pressure cooker (for boiling potatoes)

-5 potatoes (you can increase or decrease the quantity as per your requirement)

-Water

For Curry 

-2 tbsp oil

-1 bay leaf

-1-inch ilaichi

-1 black ilaichi

-1 pinch of hing

-1 tsp cumin

-2 green chillies

-1 medium-sized chopped onion

-1 medium-sized chopped tomato 

-1 tsp ginger garlic paste

-half tsp turmeric

-1 tsp chilli powder

-1 tsp coriander powder

-third/fourth tsp garam masala

-1 tsp kasori methi

-1 tsp salt (to taste)

-2 cups water (add more or less as per your requirement)

-2 tbsp coriander leaves (for garnishing)

Instructions:

1. First of all, take a pressure cooker and add 5 potatoes, 1 tsp salt and enough water. Cover it and cook for 2-3 minutes. The potatoes should be cooked well.

2. When the potatoes cool down, peel them and mash them well. Keep them aside.

3. Take a large pan, add oil to it and let it heat up. Add all the dry spices (bay leaf, big cardamom, small cardamom, cinnamon) to the ingredients mentioned above. Cook it on low flame till the dry spices become aromatic. After this, add a pinch of asafoetida to it. After this, add cumin seeds and green chilies and let them crackle.

4. After doing all this, add chopped onion to it and fry it till it becomes golden brown. On low flame, add 1/2 tsp turmeric powder, 1 tsp coriander powder, 1 tsp chili powder and garam masala to the pan and let it cook well.

5. After this add tomatoes and cook it till it become soft. Mix all the spices well and fry it. After this add boiled potatoes and kasuri methi, and salt as per taste.

6. Mix everything well and cook it. Now, add water as per requirement and cover it. And finally garnish it by adding coriander leaves.

7. Enjoy the prepared delicious potato curry with puffed puri.

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