Obbattu

Dough

Ingredients

• Chiroti Rava - 1 cup
• Maida(plain flour) - 2 cups
• oil - 5tsp
• turmeric - 1/2tsp
• water - as required
• plastic sheet or obbattu sheet - 1 ( you can cut it in round shape )

Method

• In a wide bowl , take the flour , salt , turmeric powder  and mix well.Add water and make a sticky dough. 
• Then apply  oil over the dough and mix well to make it non-sticky. Add more oil if necessary..
• Keep it covered for minimum of 30 minutes to maximum of 2 hours. The more time you keep the dough the more soft it would be.

Stuffing

Ingredients

• Toor dhal - 3 cups ( 500gm)
• Jaggery - 500gm
• Elaichi powder - 3 pinch ( 1tsp)
• Grated coconut - 1cup

Method

• Boil the toor dhal in water and strain water and keep the water aside .the water is used to make obbattu saaru.

• Powder the jaggery and put it in a vessel , add very little water (1/2cup).Switch on the stove.Allow the jaggery to melt.

• Once jaggery is melted add the cooked dhal and keep frying till moisture/water content evaporates.

• Now add grated coconut and elaichi powder.remove from flame.

• Allow it to cool.Then grind it into a paste.

• Now take the dough , knead well for 10 minutes. The dough should be loose , elastic and pliable. Add more oil if it sticks.

• Take a small lemon sized ball of dough and equal sized ball of puran. Pat the dough to make a thick small circle and keep the dhal stuff (puran) in the middle. 

• Bring all the corners to the middle and close the ball.

• Using your fingers, roll the stuffed dough ball into circles.

• Ideally the filling should be uniformly distributed and the flour skin should be as thing as possible, so trying to achieve the ideal is a good idea

• Heat dosa tawa , drizzle little oil and put the obbattu along with the sheet and remove the sheet alone in a second . Cook the obbattufor few seconds , flip it and again cook for another few seconds. Make sure you don’t over cook it. Serve it with ghee.