Sweet potato puran poli (sakkaravalli kizhangu poli) made along with jaggery and coconut as main ingredients.
This taste very similar to the puran poli or paruppu poli we make that I have already posted.
Check out the dal version in my website.
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Sweet potato poli is really healthy with all those fibre along with its goodness. This will be a great snack for your kids.
Make it with regular atta or whole wheat flour to make it even more healthy.
When I got sweet potato for Thiruvathirai, me and my MIL were discussing what can be done with sweet potato.
In my childhood days, during the tamil month of margazhi or when ever we feel like, we used to boil water (for bath) in our own backyard with all the dried parts from coconut tree.
The dried fiber (thenga mattai), shell (thenga odu), leaves (thennai mattai/ olai) are used as fuel for our stove 🙂.
Each one has its own way of burning. To start the stove, the quick and easy to catch leaves.
Then the fiber, which holds the heat steady but extremely smoky which makes our eyes burn.
Shell burns well as well as holds heat for some time. It will be quite an adventure everyday for our bath 😆.
Why I said such long story? I am coming to the point, in that fire, we sometimes throw in this sweet potato and it gets toasted well.
The cooked sweet potato with smoky flavour will be amazing to eat. We do the same with tapioca and corn at times.
I made sweet potato poriyal, sambar and now this sweet potato poli and yet I have one more to finish 😯. I guess I will use it up for my pongal kootu.
Recipe card
Sweet potato poli recipe
Ingredients
- 3 Sweet potato
- 1 cup Jaggery
- ¼ cup Coconut grated
- 1 Cardamom powdered
For dough
- 1 cup All purpose flour Maida
- Turmeric – A pinch optional
- 4 tablespoon Ghee or oil Divided
- Salt – As needed
Instructions
- Firstly prepare dough prior at least 1 hour or upto 3 hours before making poli.
- In a mixing bowl add flour, salt, turmeric, ghee or oil and required water.
- Knead well to make a loose dough. Add 2 tablespoon oil over it and keep aside for 1 hour to 3 hours
- Meanwhile you can prepare the puran / stuffing.
- Keep sweet potato in a container, inside pressure cooker.
- You can add little water as usual in the pressure cooker, but no need to add water to sweet potato.
- Idea is to steam it. You can add water and cook, but it could retain water and take bit longer to get puran done.
- So I opted steaming without water. Pressure cook for 4-5 whistles.
- Peel the skin once cooled and mash it well without any lumps.
- After that, melt jaggery with little water just to immerse it. Filter it to remove any impurities.
- Add it to the sweet potato and heat over medium flame. Mix well.
- Once mixed, add grated coconut and cardamom. Keep stirring until it becomes thick.
- On cooling, it gets non sticky. So switch off accordingly. Once cold enough to handle, roll into equal sized balls.
- After 3 hours, the oil or ghee would have slightly oozed out. Knead again to make it smooth and pliable.
- Divide into equal lemon sized balls. Rest again for 10 minutes.
- Flatten the rolled dough into thick disc.
- Keep the stuffing inside and cover it with the dough.
- Seal and flatten to thin polis.
- Oil will be oozing from the dough, so you may not need any oil for greasing, if needed use accordingly.
- Carefully transfer to hot tawa and cook over medium flame. Drizzle sesame oil or ghee.
- Cook by gently pressing the poli with ladle so that golden spots appear.
- Repeat to finish and stack the poli.
Notes
- The mashed sweet potato I took gave exactly one cup, when mashed. So use this a guidance.
- Since we use oil, you may be getting a non sticky dough with little water itself, but make sure to add more water to make a loose dough, not a dough like the regular chapati dough, this should be really soft and loose to handle.
- You can use sesame oil as vegan option for ghee.
- Use half maida, half wheat flour for flavorful results.
- You can use more coconut or less, but increase or decrease jaggery as needed.
- Use sugar instead of jaggery.
Step by step
- Firstly prepare dough prior at-least 1 hour to 3 hours before making poli. In a mixing bowl add flour, salt, turmeric, ghee or oil and required water.
2. Knead well to make a loose dough. Add 2 tablespoon oil over it and keep aside for 3 hours.
3. Meanwhile you can prepare the puran / stuffing. Keep sweet potato in a container, inside pressure cooker.
You can add little water as usual in cooker, but no need to add to sweet potato. Idea is to steam it.
Alternately, you can add water and cook, but it could retain moisture and take bit longer to get puran done.
So I opted steaming without. Pressure cook for 4-5 whistles.
4. Peel the skin once cold and mash it well without any lumps.
5. Melt jaggery with little water just to immerse it. Filter it to remove any impurities.
6. Add it to the sweet potato and heat over medium flame. Mix well.
7. Once mixed, add grated coconut and cardamom. Keep stirring until it becomes thick.
8. On cooling, it gets non sticky. So switch off accordingly. Once cold enough to handle, roll into equal sized balls.
9. After 3 hours, the oil or ghee would have slightly oozed out. Knead again to make it smooth and pliable. Divide into equal lemon sized balls.
10. Flatten the rolled dough into thick disc. Keep the stuffing inside and cover it with the dough.
11. Seal and flatten to thin polis. Oil will be oozing from the dough, so you may not need any extra for greasing, if needed use accordingly. You can check the video for better understanding.
12. Carefully transfer to hot tawa and toast over medium flame. Drizzle sesame oil or ghee.
13. Toast by gently pressing the poli with ladle so that golden spots appear. Repeat to finish and stack the poli.
Stack the polis to make it soft and serve. Both hot or at room temperature, it tastes great. No one will realize it is made out of sweet potato.
Geetha Ramaiah
Thank you for this lovely recipe!!
Priya Joshi
I found better way to use sweet potato raks... thanks a lot for sharing this post...
sandhya B
Wow..super yummy poli..
revathy balakrishnan
Hi, did you knead again with the oozed out oil in step 9?
Sowmia pragash
Innovative share. Poli with sweet potato is just awesome.
Raks anand
Yes we should knead with that oozed out oil
revathy balakrishnan
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vennilaspurgeon
Raks, I tried it and came out perfect . Your way of presentation is very brilliant and I love all your recipes.
Rajee
I had tough time making this. First is sweet potato became gooey. I dont know whether it is because of nature of sweet potato or I heated for less time. Second outer maida. I didnt knead properly and had to add more oil. Still didnt get right consistency. Again I repeated whole process exactly in the way u mentioned. Came out perfect. Thanx.
Sindhu krishnan
Hi Raje, Thanks for all your posts, you make awesome cooking with simple steps and easy method, i have been using your website as reference for mor ethan 2 years now and your website is really helpful for those who learn cooking newly after marriage, the cooking all i know today is from your posts 🙂 Made this sweet poli too and came out really nice!! Thanks for your posts.. Today i do confident cooking just because of you.. THANK YOU.
Unknown
Hi Rajee, I have been referring your website for about 2 years now and its really helpful for someone who started learning cooking after marriage. Your way of cooking is simple yet delicious, you use simple ingredients and make awesome receipies. Tried this sweet poli and it came out really well. All the cooking i know today is all from your posts!! Thank you.
Thava
I tried n my children liked it a lot.. Very different one... Thanks a lot
Unknown
The recipe s great. I'm gonna try today. Actually I'm searching for ceramic cookware.. Which brand s ur pan in the pic n is it lasting long?
Raks anand
This is my first pan and it's GreenLife brand ceramic pan
Raks anand
Thank you
Raks anand
Thanks for the feedback.
Raks anand
Thanks a lot
Raks anand
Thank you
Unknown
Nice recipe. could you please let me know if leftovers of the poli can be kept in the fridge?
ApinchofsaltNsugar
Hi Raks, can we not add coconut gratings?
Raks anand
Sure, later, to serve, you can steam it in idlipot to reheat it.
Kuzhali
Thanks for sharing this receipe. Tried it yesterday. Tastes good.
Raks Anand
Thank you for your feedback 🙂