Ingredients:
• For Making Poli:
• 1 cup – Maida
• A pinch of salt
• 1 tbsp – ghee/ oil – enough to deep fry
• For Sugar syrup:
• Sugar – a little more than a cup
• Water – as needed
Method:
- Mix maida, ghee, salt in a bowl, gradually add water and knead to a stiff dough. Roll out into thin round shape and then fold it, so that it forms a semi-circle, then roll again, and deep fry it in oil and keep them aside.
- Boil sugar in a pan with water to a string consistency, dip the fried puris one by one in this syrup, so that both the sides of puri is coated with the syrup.
- For Flavoured milk:
- Boil milk with saffron and add cardamom powder. Pour this milk over the sugar dipped puris, and garnish it with grated almonds. Poli is ready to be served.
Recipe courtesy of Srikrupa Gopalswamy