Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, coconut poli/thengai poli. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Thengai poli, coconut poli, I would say thengai poli is the most yummiest poli of all I have tried. Same with coconut poli, I found it too sweet for my taste. But now the taste have changed, I love it but avoid making due to maida and sweet factor, but yearly at least twice with the sweet pooranam and in. Coconut Poli is very delicious south Indian sweet recipes.
Coconut Poli/Thengai Poli is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look wonderful. Coconut Poli/Thengai Poli is something which I have loved my whole life.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook coconut poli/thengai poli using 10 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Coconut Poli/Thengai Poli:
- Take To make Dough:
- Make ready 1/2 cup All purpose flour/Maida
- Take 1/4 tsp salt
- Prepare 3 tbsp Sesame Oil
- Make ready To make Stuffing:
- Take 1/2 Cup Jaggery/Vellam
- Get 1/2 Cup Coconut grated
- Make ready 1 tsp Cardamom/Elaichi Powder
- Make ready 1 tbsp Water
- Take 1/4 Cup Ghee
Thengai Poli or Sweet Poli is my most favorite sweet which we normally make for Bogi (the before day of Pongal festival) and for Aavani avittam. Be careful not to get this burnt. When it is warm , make this into big. Thengai Poli is another traditional and popular Poli variety.
Instructions to make Coconut Poli/Thengai Poli:
- Take a wide bowl, add all purpose flour, salt, a tbsp of oil and mix well. Now add little by little water at a time and make a soft sticky dough. Knead for 5-7 minutes. Now add remaining oil and mix it thoroughly, close it with a damp cloth and let it rest for half an hour. Then make lemon size balls out of the dough and set aside.
- Meanwhile, let us make stuffing for the dough. Heat a pan, add jaggery and a tbsp of water and boil till the jaggery melts completely. Filter the jaggery water if there are any impurities. Now add grated coconut and saute for 4-5 minutes. Then add cardamom powder and saute till the stuffing reaches a thick consistency.
- Now cool the stuffing completely and make lemon size balls out of it and set aside. Now apply a generous amount of oil to your hands and take the lemon size dough and place it on a zip lock bag, banana leaf or wax paper applied with oil. Pat dough gently to form a small circle.
- Now place stuffing in the middle of the dough and fold the dough in such a way that the stuffing is inside the dough. i.e gently gather all the edges to the center and cover the stuffing completely. Repeat the procedure for all the dough and stuffing and set aside. Now spread the dough gently by patting with your hands in a circular shape as shown. You can apply oil to your hands to avoid dough sticking to your hands.
- Heat a pan, add a tsp of ghee and gently slide the patted dough on the pan. Cook on both sides till it turns golden brown. It cooks very fast, it takes hardly a minute to cook on both sides. Repeat the process for the remaining stuffed dough. Remove it on a plate and enjoy it either hot or cold.
When it is warm , make this into big. Thengai Poli is another traditional and popular Poli variety. Coconut and jaggery are concocted to a tasty puran which is then stuffed inside maida based Thengai poli is another delicious variety of poli. Most of us make dal poli for Aavani avittam or bhogi pandigai. This coconut poli is a one of the main.
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