Here's why: Paal Poori is a delicious dessert which, true to its name, is pooris soaked in sweetened, thickened milk and then garnished with roasted cashew nuts and almonds. Yum much?
Paal Poli Recipe
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 45 minutes
Serves 6-8
Recipe source: Divya
Ingredients:
1.5 litres of milk
1 can (400gm) of evaporated milk
1 can (400gm) of condensed milk
Powder together:
2-3 tablespoon of sugar (adjust to your preference)
6-8 pods of green cardamom
For the Pooris:
1.5 cups of all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon of oil
Salt to taste
Oil of for deep frying
To Garnish:
10-12 of cashew nuts, slivered
A few of almonds, slivered (optional)
How It's Made:
1. Mix the flour, salt, and oil with enough water to make a stiff dough. Let it stand for about 15 minutes.
2. Roll out palm-sized pooris from the dough, and deep fry in the oil.
3. Drain the pooris and lay out on a flat dish lined with kitchen napkins.
4. Boil together the milk, condensed milk, evaporated milk along with the sugar-cardamom powder mixture on medium heat for about 15 - 20 minutes to a thick-ish pouring consistency (neither too runny nor too thick).
5. Pour the milk mixture over the pooris and let it stand for a couple of hours, until the pooris soak about half of the milk mixture.
6. Garnish with roasted unsalted almonds and cashew nuts.
Paal Poori can be served warm or chilled in the refrigerator.
Note: If you are unable to source evaporated milk, just measure out one can of milk instead and add to the mixture instead of evaporated milk.
Update: Since many of you wrote to me saying this is in fact called Paal Poli and not Paal Poori, I have edited the title to reflect that 🙂
jeyashrisuresh
We too make this and we call it paal poli. nicely done and making me crave for this now
Saee Koranne-Khandekar
Delish! Like a further Indianized Shahi Tukda. Also reminded me of a very traditional Marathi sweet called "paakaatlya purya" or literally translated, "Puris in surup". These are small, khasta puris dunked in a sweet syrup that has a bit of lemon squeezed in. Yum. Sin, but yum. Recipe on my blog.
PJ
Looks delicious. When I was in school mom used to make something similar with chapathi 🙂
NarMee
Such simple preparation and so delicious ! i ve had this before but thought this was called paal poli ???!!!
Arch
This seems something like a shahi tukda, my once-upon-a-time favourite !
Viyoma
Yummy, how i wish, u hav posted this yesterday. Sunday Afternoon Stomach was growling for sweet.
Now have to wait for the next Sunday to try this.
Thanks a ton, for recipe - looks yummy.
Gayathri NG
SOunds delicious n mouthwatering...
zareena
mmmm....drooling over the clicks. When I was small, I used to eat puris soaked in milk for breakfast. This dessert looks amazing and simple to make too.
Sharmilee! :)
This one sounds yummy....delicious and easy recipe
RAKS KITCHEN
Looks tempting! Yummy recipe! 🙂