Deep Fried Crispy Coconut Poli

Ingredients For Outer Covering

• • Maida - 1 cup
• • Chiroti rawa - ¾ cup
• • Oil/Ghee (for deep frying) - as required
• • Kesar colours - a pinch

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Ingredients For Filling

• • Coconut (grated, fresh) - 1 cup
• • Cashew nuts (powdered) - ¼ cup
• • Sugar - 1 cup
• • Chiroti rawa - 1 tablespoon
• • Ghee - 1 ½ teaspoons
• • Cardamom powder - ¼ teaspoon

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Method To Make The Dough

• 1. Mix maida, rawa, 2 teaspoon of oil, a pinch of salt, kesar colour together, in a bowl.
• 2. Add water little by little and knead to a stiff dough.
• 3. Keep closed for 10 minutes and knead again till dough becomes pliable.

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Method To Make The Filling

• 1. Mix chiroti rawa, grated coconut, chopped cashew nuts and sugar in a large bowl nicely until everything is nicely mixed and keep it aside for 2-3 hours.
• 2. Now the mixture would have become wet and soft. Mix it nicely again.
• 3. Grease your palms with ghee and make big lemon size balls out of the filling and keep them aside.

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Method To Make Coconut Poli

• 1. Prepare small balls from maida dough.
• 2. Keep one coconut ball inside each and cover it properly.
• 3. Apply little oil to plastic sheet and pat the ball to medium sized circle.
• 4. Heat oil in a kadai and deep fry poli turning over on both sides till crisp.
• 5. Drain off excess oil after removing from fire.