Cookbook:Vedhmi (Sweet Stuffed Flatbread)

Puran poli or vedhmi is a sweet version of stuffed chapati from the Gujarat in the Indian subcontinent. It is mainly stuffed with toor dal, but some people use chana dal.

Ingredients

 * ½ kg toor dal
 * Salt to taste
 * 1 tsp cardamom powder
 * ½ kg jaggery
 * ½ kg wheat flour (maida)
 * 100 ml oil
 * 1 tsp ghee

Procedure

 * 1) Wash and boil the toor dal with water and ½ tsp salt until soft.
 * 2) Cool slightly and strain the dal using a strainer.
 * 3) Add cardamom powder and jaggery to the dal, then grind to make a fine paste. If the paste is sticky, keep it on the heat to dry up completely. This is known as "puran".
 * 4) Knead flour with ½ tsp salt and enough water to make a dough. Do not make the dough hard.
 * 5) Add oil, and knead the dough again until the oil is absorbed.
 * 6) Prepare an equal number of balls from the dough and puran.
 * 7) Roll out dough balls to make small un-cooked chapati.
 * 8) Stuff each uncooked chapati with a ball of puran.
 * 9) Roll them again into stuffed chapati just like stuffed paratha. It is called "poli".
 * 10) Heat a griddle and fry each poli.
 * 11) Brush ghee on both sides when done.
 * 12) Serve.