PALA POORILU
A heavenly dessert made of crisp pooris soaked in flavored milk.
Servings: 4 people
Ingredients
For the poori dough
- 1½ cups Whole wheat flour
- 2 tbsp Cooking oil
- 1 pinch salt
- Water to knead
For flavored milk
- 3 cups Whole milk / Full fat milk
- 4 tbsp Poppy seeds
- 3 pods Cardamom
- 3 tbsp Rice flour
- ¾ cup Sugar
Instructions
Make a poori dough
- In a mixing bowl add whole wheat flour, salt, oil mix it. Add some filtered water just enough to make a semi hard dough.
- Cover and let the dough rest until we make the flavored milk.
Make flavored milk
- In a blender jar add poppy seeds, whole cardamom pods, rice flour and make a coarse powder.
- Now 4 tbsp of water and blend the mixture to make a creamy fine paste.
- Heat a saucepan, add milk, keep stirring and let it come to a rolling boil.
- Add the poppy seed paste to the boiling milk, reduce the flame to medium, give it a good stir and from this point keep stirring continuously to avoid the milk sticking to the bottom.
- Add sugar or sweetener of your choice and cook until the milk thickens slightly.
- Reduce the flame to low and keep it on heat until we prepare the pooris.
Prepare the pooris
- Heat a kadai/wok, add oil enough for deep frying. Let's roll some pooris now.
- Take the dough, divide it into 15 equal portions and roll them into balls.
- Using some dry flour dust the rolling surface, roll each dough ball into thin pooris.
- Once the oil is hot enough for frying pooris, drop in one rolled poori at a time. Fry on both sides until it's evenly cooked, these pooris need not puff up.
- Place the fried poori on a paper towel to drain out excess oil. And repeat the procedure for the remaining dough.
Serving the Pala poorilu
- Method 1 - Drop the fried poori one at a time in the warm flavored milk, soak it for a minute on both sides place them on a serving tray. Later while serving place the soaked poori on serving plate with flavored milk in bowl/glass separately.
- Method 2 - Place the fried pooris in a serving plate, pour warm flavored milk on top of them as desired. Dig in when pooris have soften a bit.
- Sprinkle some chopped almonds, or nuts of your choice on divine Pala poorilu and dig in. Bon Appétit.
Notes
- You can add either fresh grated coconut/dry coconut in flavored milk, add it while making the poppy seed paste.
- You can make a huge batch of flavored milk ahead, warm it when needed and make pooris instantly.
- You can add some cashews, almonds, pistachios in the flavored milk by blending them along with poppy seeds mixture.