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Kayi Holige / Coconut Poli Recipe
Prep Time: 20 mins|Cook time: 30 mins| Makes: 9 – 10 polis
Author:Hari Chandana P
Cuisine: Indian
Recipe type: sweet, dessert
Ingredients:
For the Stuffing:
- 2 cups Grated Fresh Coconut
- 1 Cup Powdered Jaggery
- ¼ tsp Cardamom Powder
For the Outer Layer:
- 1 cup All Purpose Flour
- 3.5 tbsp Oil
- >A pinch of Salt
- ¼ tsp Turmeric Powder
- Ghee for frying the Poli
Instructions:
- In a mixing bowl, add the flour, salt, turmeric powder and 2 tablespoons of warm oil and mix well.
- Add water little by little and knead it into a very soft dough.
- The dough should be loose than the regular chapathi dough.
- Pour remaining oil on the top of the dough and cover with a lid.
- Keep it aside for 1 – 2 hours.
- Grind the grated coconut and powdered jaggery in a mixer.
- Cook the ground coconut mixture for few minutes over a medium flame.
- Add the cardamom powder and stir continuously until you get a thick and lumpy mixture.
- Turn off the flame and let it cool down.
- Divide the soaked dough into 9 – 10 equal sized balls and set aside.
- Shape the cooked coconut mixture into 9 – 10 round balls and set aside.
- Flatten the dough ball with your fingers to form a small disc and place coconut stuffing ball in the middle of the disc.
- Bring the edges together and seal it carefully.
- Dust some flour on the flat surface and roll the stuffed dough to a thin / little thick disc.
- Heat a pan / tawa and spread some ghee. Place the rolled dough on the hot pan.
- Drizzle some ghee and cook. When one side gets cooked, then flip it over and cook until brown spots appear.
- Cook them both sides until brown spots appear. Apply little more ghee if needed.
- Repeat the same for the rest of the dough and stuffing.
- Serve hot or warm.
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Kousikasa g says
we shall try this for makara sankranthi in particular
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