Paal poli recipe, a traditional South Indian dessert the place pooris are dunked in cardamom flavored, decreased sweetened milk

Paal poli is a wealthy, milk-based, scrumptious South Indian candy. It’s a particular candy merchandise provided on many a Tamilian marriage ceremony menu. I’ve been lucky to savor this traditional candy at a buddy’s marriage ceremony eons in the past. In Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, it goes by completely different names like paal poori, milk poli, halu obbattu, poori payasa, and halu holige. Halu holige is ready barely otherwise from the Tamil Nadu model. In Karnataka, the decreased sweetened milk has poppy seeds or gasagase and recent coconut as a substitute of milk. I’ll weblog halu holige recipe within the close to future.

Paal poori is ready for the Tamil New 12 months, Ugadi, Bhogi, Avani Avittam and festivals like Krishnashtami, Navratri, and Diwali. I ready this delicacy for Diwali this yr and it made for a good festive candy.

paal poli

Paal poli recipe although easy to make is barely labor intensive however undoubtedly definitely worth the effort. You could put together the dough, relaxation it and roll out lemon sized dough balls into skinny concentric circles. The rolled out pooris are deep-fried earlier than dunking them in sweetened decreased milk. The pooris meld in all of the fragrant goodness of cinnamon and nutmeg.

milk poli

Historically, this wealthy South Indian candy is made with chiroti rava (very high quality semolina). It’s also made with a mixture of maida or plain flour and sooji or with simply plain flour. I’ve discovered success once I make the dough with plain flour and high quality sooji. The dough must be easy but barely agency such as you’d make poori dough. The ready dough ought to relaxation for a couple of minutes earlier than rolling them into 4″ to five″ concentric skinny circles.

lemon sized dough balls rolled into spherical concentric circles

The deep-fried pooris shouldn’t be too gentle or too crisp like a papad. The puris ought to have a barely crunchy texture.

deep fried pooris and decreased sweetened milk

I like to recommend you put together the sweetened milk with full-fat milk. It’s best to simmer the milk and permit it to scale back to three-fourths of its authentic amount. Normally, it’s flavored with cardamom and/or nutmeg and saffron. The sweetened milk tastes heavenly with hints of cardamom and nutmeg. In case you don’t have the time to scale back the milk, you can also make a paste of some cashew nuts or almonds and add to the simmering milk and sugar combination. This can thicken the milk barely and provides it a wealthy taste.

The deep-fried pooris must be dunked within the sweetened decreased milk for a couple of minutes in order that it may take in the flavors. You may make it forward of time and refrigerate it till serving time. Milk poli is best-served chilled which makes it a completely irresistible dessert. Your loved ones particularly youngsters will relish it with pleasure. Sure, it’s a good kid-friendly dessert. And do add it to your listing of competition meals recipes.

paal poori

Find out how to make milk poli