Puranache Dind – Marathi Recipe

Instructions

• Wash chana dal really good and soak it in enough water for about 5-6 hours.
• You can soak it overnight too if possible.
• Transfer the soaked chana dal into cooker and add water.
• Add turmeric powder and mix well.
• Close the lid and cook on medium heat until about 3-4 whistles.
• Take wheat flour into a dish.
• Add salt, oil and mix well.
• Add a little water at a time and knead a little thick dough like puri dough.
• Transfer the dough into a bowl and spread a little oil on it.
• Cover and rest it for about 30 minutes.
• Drain the excess water from the cooked dal.
• You can use this water for making katachi amti.
• Transfer the cooked dal into a pan and mash it really good with potato masher.
• Add gudh and mix well.
• Cook everything well until gudh melts.
• When gudh melts, continue cooking for another 7-8 minutes.
• When puran thickens up add cardamom powder, nut meg powder and mix well.
• Puran is all ready.
• Heat up water in a steamer.
• Line up the upper pot of steamer with banana leaf or cotton cloth.
• Take the dough and knead it once to make smooth and even.
• Take a small portion of dough and roll it into a puri.
• You can decide the size and thickness of the puri.
• Try to roll it a little thin as it becomes a little thick after cooking.
• Stuff the puran at the center of the puri and fold it from all 4 sides.
• You can add ghee if you want.
• Transfer the dind into the upper steamer pot and put the pot on other steamer pot.
• Cover and steam on medium heat for about 10-15 minutes.
• After steaming let them be in the steamer for another 10 minutes.
• Open the lid and take the dind out into a plate.
• Puranache dind are all ready.
• You can have these as it is hot with lot of ghee on it.