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Home » INDIAN DIWALI SWEET RECIPES » TRADITIONAL DIWALI RECIPES » Sweet potato poli recipe | Sakkaravalli kizhangu poli

Sweet potato poli recipe | Sakkaravalli kizhangu poli

January 7, 2016 by Raks Anand 21 Comments /

Sweet potato poli
Sweet potato puran poli (sakkaravalli kizhangu poli) is made with cooked mashed sweet potato 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 paruppu poli recipe. 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 (Hot water for bath) in our own backyard with all the dried parts from coconut tree. The coconut fibre (thenga mattai), coconut shell (thenga oadu), coconut leaves (thennai mattai/ olai) are used as fuel for our stove 🙂.
Each one has its own way of burning. To start the stove, quick and easy to catch coconut leaves, then the fibre, which holds the heat steady but extremely smoky which makes our eyes burn, coconut shell burns well as well as holds heat for some time. It will be quite an adventure everyday to make our own hot water 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.
sakkaravalli-kizhangu-poli

Sweet potato poli recipe

Recipe Cuisine: Indian  |  Recipe Category: Sweet
Prep Time:  3 Hr Dough resting time    |  Cook time: 30 mins     |  Makes: 12

Ingredients

Sweet potato – 3


Jaggery – 1 cup


Coconut, grated – 1/4 cup


Cardamom – 1, powdered


For dough

All purpose flour/ Maida – 1 cup


Turmeric – A pinch (optional)


Ghee or oil – 2 tbsp + 2 tbsp


Salt – As needed

Method

  1. First prepare dough prior atleast 1 hr to 3 hrs 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 tbsp oil over it and keep aside for minimum 3 – 4 hrs.
  3. 1-dough

  4. Mean while 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.
  5. 1-steam

  6. Peel the skin once cold and mash it well without any lumps.
  7. 2-mash

  8. Melt jaggery with little water just to immerse it. Filter it to remove any impurities.
  9. 3-filter

  10. Add it to the sweet potato and heat over medium flame. Mix well.
  11. 4-mix

  12. Once mixed, add grated coconut and cardamom. Keep stirring until it becomes thick.
  13. 5-add

  14. On cooling, it gets non sticky. So switch off accordingly. Once cold enough to handle, roll into equal sized balls.
  15. 8-roll

  16. After 5 hrs, the oil or ghee would have slightly oozed out. Knead again to make it smooth and pliable. Divide into equal lemon sized balls.
  17. 9-roll

  18. Flatten the rolled dough into thick disc. Keep the stuffing inside and cover it with the dough.
  19. 6-cover

  20. 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. You can check the video for better understanding.
  21. 7-flatten

  22. Carefully transfer to hot tawa and cook over medium flame. Drizzle sesame oil or ghee.
  23. 10-cook

  24. Cook by gently pressing the poli with ladle so that golden spots appear. Repeat to finish and stack the poli.
  25. 11-ready

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.
    • You can use half maida, half wheat flour too.
    • You can use more coconut or less, but increase or decrease jaggery as needed.
    • You can use sugar instead of jaggery.

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.

sweet-potato-poli

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Comments

  1. Geetha Ramaiah

    January 7, 2016 at 4:16 pm

    Thank you for this lovely recipe!!

    Reply
  2. Priya Joshi

    January 8, 2016 at 6:57 am

    I found better way to use sweet potato raks… thanks a lot for sharing this post…

    Reply
  3. sandhya B

    January 8, 2016 at 12:59 pm

    Wow..super yummy poli..

    Reply
  4. revathy balakrishnan

    January 12, 2016 at 3:11 am

    Hi, did you knead again with the oozed out oil in step 9?

    Reply
  5. Sowmia pragash

    January 12, 2016 at 3:12 am

    Innovative share. Poli with sweet potato is just awesome.

    Reply
  6. Raks anand

    January 12, 2016 at 3:15 am

    Yes we should knead with that oozed out oil

    Reply
  7. revathy balakrishnan

    January 12, 2016 at 1:26 pm

    This comment has been removed by the author.

    Reply
  8. vennilaspurgeon

    January 16, 2016 at 9:02 am

    Raks, I tried it and came out perfect . Your way of presentation is very brilliant and I love all your recipes.

    Reply
  9. Rajee

    January 19, 2016 at 11:54 am

    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.

    Reply
  10. Sindhu krishnan

    January 21, 2016 at 9:01 am

    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.

    Reply
  11. Unknown

    January 21, 2016 at 9:01 am

    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.

    Reply
  12. Thava

    January 31, 2016 at 2:42 pm

    I tried n my children liked it a lot.. Very different one… Thanks a lot

    Reply
  13. Unknown

    February 12, 2016 at 12:19 pm

    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?

    Reply
  14. Raks anand

    February 12, 2016 at 12:26 pm

    This is my first pan and it's GreenLife brand ceramic pan

    Reply
  15. Raks anand

    January 11, 2017 at 4:08 am

    Thank you

    Reply
  16. Raks anand

    January 11, 2017 at 4:09 am

    Thanks for the feedback.

    Reply
  17. Raks anand

    January 11, 2017 at 4:10 am

    Thanks a lot

    Reply
  18. Raks anand

    January 11, 2017 at 4:11 am

    Thank you

    Reply
  19. Unknown

    January 14, 2017 at 3:48 pm

    Nice recipe. could you please let me know if leftovers of the poli can be kept in the fridge?

    Reply
  20. ApinchofsaltNsugar

    January 14, 2017 at 3:48 pm

    Hi Raks, can we not add coconut gratings?

    Reply
  21. Raks anand

    January 14, 2017 at 3:50 pm

    Sure, later, to serve, you can steam it in idlipot to reheat it.

    Reply

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