Shenga Poli – Marathi Recipe

Instructions

• Take wheat flour into a dish.
• Add besan, salt and mix everything well.
• Add a little water at a time and knead the dough of medium consistency.
• Add oil and knead the dough again to make soft and even.
• Transfer the dough into a bowl, cover and rest it for about 30 minutes.
• Take peanuts into a pan and roast until nice and kharpus.
• When peanuts cool down a little peel them.
• Transfer the peeled peanuts into a blender jar and blend into a powder.
• Add jaggery, cardamom powder, nutmeg powder, and blend everything just once.
• Stuffing is all-ready.
• Knead the dough a little once more.
• Take a small portion from the dough and make it even.
• Make a pari from it. You can roll it into a small chapatti like we make paratha.
• Fill as much stuffing as possible and press it.
• Bring the edges together and close it.
• Dip it into dry flour and roll into chapatti. Roll the chapatti carefully.
• Heat up a pan on medium heat.
• Transfer the chapatti on the pan and roast well on low to medium heat.
• After roasting a little from one side flip it over and roast well from another side.
• Spread a little oil on the upper side and flip it over.
• You can use ghee in place of oil.
• Spread a little oil on another side too and roast nice and kharpus.
• When chapatti is roasted well from both sides take it off into a dish.
• Shenga Polya is all-ready.
• You can make 12-13 medium size Polya from 1 1/2 cup peanuts.