Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Jeera Poli


Jeera Poli:



            Be it "Avani avattam" or any other function "Poli" remains to be a must menu in our feast."Paal Poli", "Pooran Poli" and "Jeera Poli" are the 3 flavours of Poli which my mom prepares often.I love Paal Poli a lot.During navaratri mom prepares a kheer and a sweet every day and during this navaratri too she prepared lots and lots of sweets.Jeera Poli is one amongst the many.It is one easy sweety recipe which can made in a jiffy if you have all the ingredients ready.Here I go with the method of preparation:

Ingredients:

For making Poli:


Maida/All purpose flour
1 cup+1/4 cup for dusting the balls
Salt
As required
Water
For kneading


For the sugar syrup:

Sugar
1.5 cups
Cardamom powder
1 tsp
Kesari  powder
A pinch



For frying the polis:

Oil
As required for frying the polis



Method:

1.Sieve maida/All purpose flour and add it in a wide vessel.Add required salt to it.

2.Add little water and form a dough.The consistency of dough is smiliar to that of chapathi flour.

3.Leave the dough to rest  for 15 minutes and make small balls out of it.

4.Dust the balls with all purpose flour and make the balls into round chapathis(The very same way as you roll chapathis).

5.In another wok add oil and heat it.

6.Once the oil gets heated add the chapathis made and fry on both sides till it turns golden color and the result is yummy poli.Allow the polis to cool and keep it ready.

7.In a separate wok add the sugar and add water to it.(Add water in such a way that the sugar gets immersed in water).

8.Add cardamom powder and a pinch of kesari powder to the sugar mixture(Kesari powder is added for the color).

9.Wait till the sugar reaches string consistency.(To check for the consistency take a vessel and pour water in it.Add a drop of sugar syrup into the vessel.With your index finger touch the sugar syrup and with the help of your thumb finger see if you can get a string with the sugar syrup.If you are getting it then the sugar has reached the string  consistency else allow the sugar to boil for some more minutes till it attains the consistency).


7.Switch the stove off and allow the sugar syrup to cool.

8.Once the sugar syrup is cooled immerse a poli into the sugar syrup and make sure that the poli is coated with the syrup.Turn  the poli and make it to get coated in other side as well.Drain excess sugar syrup from the poli and store it in a clean container.

9.The jeera poli is ready for serving.


1 comment:

  1. Looks yumm.. last time I had this when I was a child ;-)

    Cheers,
    Uma

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