Gulachi Poli (Maharashtrian Jaggery Stuffed Flatbread)
Gulachi Poli is a festive Maharashtrian sweet stuffed flatbread — a wheat-flour disc rolled with a sweet filling of grated jaggery, sesame seeds, poppy seeds, dry coconut, cardamom and nutmeg, then griddle-cooked on a tawa with ghee. A traditional Sankranti/Holi sweet served warm with milk or ghee.
Ingredients
- Milk (optional) — 2 tbsp (whole)
- sesame seeds — 0.5 cup (whole)
- Dry Coconut — 2 tbsp (grated)
- Jaggery — 2 cup (grated)
- Poppy Seeds (Gasagase) — 0.5 cup (whole)
- Cardamom Powder — 1 tbsp (ground)
- Gram Flour — 1 tbsp (ground)
- Sunflower Oil — 2 tbsp (whole)
- salt (optional) (whole)
- Ghee (optional) (whole)
- Wheat Flour (Atta) — 0.5 cup (whole)
- nutmeg powder — 1 tbsp (ground)
Method
- To begin making the Gulachi Poli recipe, mix the flours and a pinch of salt in a mixing bowl.Add the hot oil, mix well and knead the flour into a soft dough.
- Cover the dough and keep aside for at least 20 minutes.
- Dry roast the sesame seeds, poppy seeds and grated coconut one by one on a low flame on a skillet.Grind the sesame seeds and poppy seeds and keep in a mixing bowl with the roasted grated coconut and grated Jaggery.In the same pan heat up ghee and to it add the chick pea flour.
- Roast it on a low flame until the chick pea flour becomes fragrant and changes its colour to light brown.Add this flour also to the mixing bowl.
- Mix all the ingredients of the stuffing well.
- Now add the Cardamom and Nutmeg powder to it and mix again.
- If the jaggery you are using is sticky, your stuffing can form a dough.
- If the stuffing appears dry and you cannot make a dough, then add 1 or 2 tablespoon milk to it.
- Add the milk drop by drop and mix and see.
- The stuffing should be soft but not wet.Pinch out 2 small portions of the flour dough and roll out into equal sized puris.Apply few drops of oil on one side of each poori.
- Now take a portion of stuffing and spread it on one poori.
- The stuffing should be spread up to the edges.Place the second poori with oil side down over the stuffed poori.
- Seal the edges and dust some four on the platform and roll out a chapati of it.Roast the Gulachi poli on a heated griddle on a low flame until nice golden brown spots appear on both the sides.Brush the poli with ghee and roast again from both sides.
- Remove and keep on a plate to cool down.The Gulachi poli becomes crisp on cooling.
- Let all the poli's cool down and then keep them in air tight container.Repeat the same procedure for rest of the dough and stuffing.
- Generally, this poli is eaten on cooling as a crispy sweet.If serving hot, serve Gulachi Poli recipe with ghee and enjoy!.
Common questions
- Gulachi Poli (Maharashtrian Jaggery Stuffed Flatbread) ko English mein kya kehte hain?
- गुलाची पोली (महाराष्ट्रीयन गुड़-तिल भरवां रोटी) ko English mein Gulachi Poli (Maharashtrian Jaggery Stuffed Flatbread) likhte hain.
- Ek plate Gulachi Poli (Maharashtrian Jaggery Stuffed Flatbread) mein kitni calories hoti hain?
- 511 kcal per plate.
- Kitna time lagta hai?
- 65 min lagta hai — 45 min taiyari, 20 min pakana.