Pooram Poli... The sweet dish

The sweet dish for that sweet tooth...

Ingredients

• 2 cup rice flour
• 2 cup water
• 1 small pinch of salt

For the filling

• 2 tbsp paneer
• 1 tbsp ground sugar
• 1 tbsp mawa
• 1 tsp chiraunji
• 1 tsp chopped almonds, pistachio, cashew nuts
• 1 tsp raisin

For the milk syrup

• 1 kg milk
• 2 tbsp mawa
• 3 tbsp mixed chopped dryfruit
• 1 tsp green cardamom powder
• few strands of kesar
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1 tbsp caramelised sugar

Method:
To make pooram poli

1. Boil the 2 cups of water
2. Add the rice flour gradually, stirring constantly, till all the flour has been absorbed
3. Remove.knead while still hot
4. Take small portions and make cups with your hands
5. Stuff with paneer, mawa filling
6. Close tight but gently with finger tips shaping into crescents
7. Heat 2 glasses of water
8. Place a sieve covered by thin muslin cloth
9. Place the rice flour crescents on cloth and steam for 10 minutes
10. Place in serving dish.
11. Pour the thickened milk syrup and garnish with chopped dryfruits
12. Lace with dissolved kesar and elaichi powder
13. Serve chilled

To make milk syrup

1. Boil milk
2. Add the mawa ,dissolving it into milk.
3. Boil till half the milk remains
4. Cool.add 2 tbsp of chopped dryfruit.
5. Dissolve kesar strands in 1 tbsp of hot milk
6. Add to cooled milk
7. Add the elaichi pwd
8. Pour over rice crescents
9. Garnish with rest of chopped dryfruits
10. Chill and serve