Yesterday was Ugadi and every year on Ugadi my mum makes Bakshalu (Puran Poli) as do most telugu/kannada/marathi people I think. When I called to wish my parents and my mum was making them I got very sad cause I wanted some too. My mum told me that she would make me some when I'm home in december, and that she would also freeze a couple from Ugadi just so I don't miss out.
I thought about this for the rest of the day, and in the afternoon I decided that instead of pining for something I couldn't get (yes I was actually pining), why not just get off my ass and attempt to make some? Well with a little bit of luck, they turned out very well, considering it was the first time I made them. And to my surprise, it wasn't difficult at all. The whole thing only took an hour.
Thought I'd better keep a record of how I made it for next time, and where better to keep track of that than through the sisterhood? :)
So here goes:
Ingredients:
1 cup channa dal
1 cup brown sugar
1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1/2 tsp cardamom powder
2 tsp of oil
Cook the channa dal with 2 cups water in a pressure cooker till it is very soft and mushy. While the dal is cooking make a dough with the maida, water and a little oil. The dough should be pretty soft. Let the dough rest for a little while. Once the dal is cooked, open the pressure cooker, add in the sugar and the cardamom and start to cook it down till it becomes a fairly dry paste-like consistency. Take it off the stove and let it cool a little. Take a ball of the dough and a slightly larger ball of the channa dal filling. Flatten out the dough to a slightly smaller than palm size, add the ball of the filling and stretch out the dough to cover the filling completely. Flatten out the filled ball (use plenty of dry flour because it was super sticky) with your palm first then roll it out with a rolling pin into small rotis. (don't make them too flat). Cook on the tawa with a little butter on both sides.
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