Gool PoLi - Jaggery Flatbread

 

 

 My maushi - maternal aunt - makes excellent gooL poLi - jaggery flatbread. She gave me her precise measurements for making exactly 5 gooL-poLies. This is one of the delicacies that is made on the Makar Sankranti day. This is a vegan Indian sweet.

 

GooL PoLi - (5 count)

गूळ पोळी 

Jaggery Flatbread

Ingredients

1 1/2 cup wheat flour

1/4 tsp salt

2 tbsp. hot oil

water as needed to knead  stiff dough

 

Stuffing

1 cup grated jaggery

1 tbsp. sesame seeds

2 tbsp. besan/chickpea flour

3-4 green cardamoms, peeled & powdered

1 tbsp. oil

 

Rice flour as needed

 

Method

1. Mix all the ingredients for the dough. Add water carefully to knead a stiff dough ball. Cover and set aside.

2. Grate jaggery. Set aside.

3. Roast chickpea flour on a medium low flame, till it is a shade darker. Make sure it's not burnt.

4. Roast sesame seeds for a minute or so. Take off before it starts spluttering out of the pan!

5. Mix jaggery, chickpea flour/besan, sesame seeds, cardamom powder and oil to make the stuffing. Mix well till there are no lumps of jaggery.

6. Make 10 uniform balls of the wheat flour dough. and 5 uniform parts of the jaggery mixture.

7. Roll two small discs using 2 balls of the dough. Place jaggery mixture on one disc. Place another disc on top and press a little, making sure that jaggery mixture is completely covered.

8. Dredge in the rice flour as needed, and roll into a thin flatbread.

9. Heat tawa/pan. Place the rolled flatbread carefully.

10. Roast on both the sides.

11. Serve warm GooL PoLi.

 

Note -

1. If you desire, you can use a shankarpali cutter to give a zigzag edge around the poli after it is rolled into big disc.