Here’s why: Paal Poori is a delicious dessert which, true to its name, is pooris soaked in sweetened, thickened milk and then garnished with roasted cashew nuts and almonds. Yum much?
Paal Poli Recipe
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 45 minutes
Serves 6-8
Recipe source: Divya
Ingredients:
1.5 litres of milk
1 can (400gm) of evaporated milk
1 can (400gm) of condensed milk
Powder together:
2-3 tbsp of sugar (adjust to your preference)
6-8 pods of green cardamom
For the Pooris:
1.5 cups of all-purpose flour
1 tsp of oil
Salt to taste
Oil of for deep frying
To Garnish:
10-12 of cashew nuts, slivered
A few of almonds, slivered (optional)
How It’s Made:
1. Mix the flour, salt, and oil with enough water to make a stiff dough. Let it stand for about 15 minutes.
2. Roll out palm-sized pooris from the dough, and deep fry in the oil.
3. Drain the pooris and lay out on a flat dish lined with kitchen napkins.
4. Boil together the milk, condensed milk, evaporated milk along with the sugar-cardamom powder mixture on medium heat for about 15 – 20 minutes to a thick-ish pouring consistency (neither too runny nor too thick).
5. Pour the milk mixture over the pooris and let it stand for a couple of hours, until the pooris soak about half of the milk mixture.
6. Garnish with roasted unsalted almonds and cashew nuts.
Paal Poori can be served warm or chilled in the refrigerator.
Note: If you are unable to source evaporated milk, just measure out one can of milk instead and add to the mixture instead of evaporated milk.
Update: Since many of you wrote to me saying this is in fact called Paal Poli and not Paal Poori, I have edited the title to reflect that 🙂
My mom calls it paal puri too, but she soaks in coconut milk mixed with sugar and cardamon.
omg. this is getting made this wknd!!!
mouthwatering…
We make this too at home.. but I like it when the puri's are dipped in the milk mixture for a min just before serving. This retains the crucnh of the poori in certain areas giving it a nice texture o both soft n cruchy dessert..
mouth watering…
Great recipe, my kids liked them a lot, thanks for sharing.
I was about to ask you for the substitute for evaporated milk.
Delicious paal poori.
yummy looking sweet and way a coincidence, i too posted this recipe with a slight variation couple of days back
Paal poori looks super delicious, makes me drool..
This look so delicious,,.:)
hi wat is evaporated milk…
Nice , new to me. yummy !
We too make this and we call it paal poli. nicely done and making me crave for this now
Delish! Like a further Indianized Shahi Tukda. Also reminded me of a very traditional Marathi sweet called "paakaatlya purya" or literally translated, "Puris in surup". These are small, khasta puris dunked in a sweet syrup that has a bit of lemon squeezed in. Yum. Sin, but yum. Recipe on my blog.
Looks delicious. When I was in school mom used to make something similar with chapathi 🙂
Such simple preparation and so delicious ! i ve had this before but thought this was called paal poli ???!!!
This seems something like a shahi tukda, my once-upon-a-time favourite !
Yummy, how i wish, u hav posted this yesterday. Sunday Afternoon Stomach was growling for sweet.
Now have to wait for the next Sunday to try this.
Thanks a ton, for recipe – looks yummy.
SOunds delicious n mouthwatering…
mmmm….drooling over the clicks. When I was small, I used to eat puris soaked in milk for breakfast. This dessert looks amazing and simple to make too.
This one sounds yummy….delicious and easy recipe
Looks tempting! Yummy recipe! 🙂