Holige/Poli or obbattu

Holige/Poli/Obattu is sweet chappathi or   sweet stuffed chappathi  made on festival days, especially on Mahavarlakshmi vrath, ugadhi,   bhogi. Its looks like a long process, it ca be break down to three steps and bet you will like to make it often , once you taste it.
 Myself and my kids like it very much and still remember my mom used to do it in batches when we were kids, my sister and brother love them, I know my mother would have a tough time making them for we three kids and we were happily enjoy eating  obbattu with a spoon of hot ghee over the obbattu/poli.
       

Ingredients:
1 cup jaggery powdered
3/4 cup channa dhal
1 tbsp of grated coconut(optional)
2 tsp of powered cardamon

For dough:
1 cup maida
2-3 tbsp of oil
1tsp of turmeric powder
pinch of salt

Method:

• First step is to make the dough and rest it for half-an -hour.Combine flour, salt,turmeric powder , 1 tbsp of oil and add sufficient amount of water and make a soft  dough
• Knead the dough well with smearing oil in your hand and should be stretchy. 
• Smear oil on the dough ,Cover the dough with wet cloth an leave it for 30 minutes.
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• For filling/Puranam
• Pressure cook the dhal until soft ,mash it staining excess water.
• Powder the jaggery.
• Heat a heavy bottomed in simmer, add the jaggery and dhal.
• Stir them till it becomes thick , add the  grated coconut and cardamon powder , toss it well and switch it off.

 To make obbattu:

•    First make small ball of the dough , smear some oil and roll them  chappathi/ pori.
• Fill in with small ball of the filling , pull the dough and close the filling completely with dough and roll it again to small poris.
• Heat the tava, spray oil and cook the obbattu till light brown on both sides.
• Serve with  obbattu topped with ghee.
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