Suruttai Poli Recipe
Ingredients:- Filling:
- Roasted gram(Pottu Kadalai) - 1 cup
- Sugar - 1 cup
- Cashews - 20
- Cardamom powder - 1 tsp
- Coconut (scrapped) - 1 tblsp
- Ghee - 1 tsp
- All purpose flour(Maida) - 1 cup
- Salt - a pinch
- Oil - for deep frying
Method:-
- Recipe for the filling:
- Powder the roasted gram and sugar together. Chop the cashews into small pieces.
- Take a pan and tsp of ghee in it and roast cut cashews and coconut for few mins until the cashews turn golden brown.
- Mix all ingredients in a bowl.
- The filling is ready. Keep this aside.
Recipe for making the Poli (Papad):
- Mix all purpose flour and salt in a bowl. Add water to it little by little and kneed them into a dough. Consistency should be like chapathi dough. Leave it aside for half an hour.
- Now divide the dough into equal parts and roll into small balls. Flour the surface and roll the dough into very thin circles of 10cm diameter. The thickness of the circles should be like papad(appalam). It should be almost semi transparent. If you make it thick, it would puff up like poori when fried. This appalam can have small bubbles here and there but should not puff up totally. After you roll them into circles spread them on paper and leave it aside for ten mins.
- Now deep fry them in hot oil turning once to cook both sides and remove them when they are just half cooked.(about ten seconds) It should be flexible and should not turn brown or crispy.(This is the tricky part)
- Once you remove them from oil place it on a plate and immediately spread 1 tblsp of filling (recipe above) on the papad and roll it tight and keep it on a plate with seem side facing down. (Caution - the papad is piping hot so work quickly)
- The rolls would be soft when made, but would become crispy once they are allowed to cool.
- The challenge in making this sweet is the speed in which you work while rolling the fried papad.
- Suruttai poli is ready to eat :)
