Sesame, Jaggery Poli/Til Poli/Ellu Holige/Ellu Poli

Sesame jaggery poli is one of the traditional sweet dish many of the South Indians prepare during every bhogi festival. You all know that Pongal, this famous harvest festival calls for 4 days celebration and the first day celebration starts with Bhogi festival, to celebrate this day my grandma makes usually poli, a kind of stuffed sweet flatbread prepared either with channadal filling or else with sesame jaggery filling. One of the delicious and our favourite poli always goes for channadal filled sweet poli though this sesame, jaggery, coconut filling is also our family favourite. Eventhough i make this nutritious flatbread often for neivedhayam or for evening snacks am yet to post it in my space.

When i prepared some sesame poli this time for bhogi, i couldnt stop myself to click few pictures just to post in my space.Coming to the filling, just dry roast the sesame seeds,grated coconut in simmer and grind as bit coarse mixture with grated jaggery, your filling is ready to roll inside a maida based dough for making this flatbread, how easy na. Am running third week of blogging marathon with Festival of the month for this week's theme. After a lipsmacking sweet pongal,crispy broccoli vadai, this healthy, nutritious poli goes to this week's theme.Check out the Blogging Marathon page for the other Blogging Marathoners doing BM#60.

2cups Maida

2pinches Turmeric powder

Salt

2tbsp Oil (for kneading)

Ghee or oil (for cooking)

Sesame-Jaggery Filling:

1cup White sesame seeds
1/2cup Grated coconut
3/4cup Jaggery
3nos Cardamom

Dry roast the white sesame seeds until they turns golden brown.

Now dry roast the grated coconut in simmer until they turns crisp. Now transfer the roasted sesame seeds, roasted coconut, grated jaggery and cardamom.

Grind as bit coarse mixture and transfer it to a plate.

Knead the maida,turmeric powder,oil and salt with enough water as a soft and stiff dough.

Keep aside with a wet towl for few minutes.

Roll out golf sized medium sized balls from the dough.

Grease a plastic sheet, roll the dough and place enough sesame-jaggery filling,wrap the dough around the filling,roll it as a round pancakes..

Heat few drops of oil or ghee, drop gently the rolled polis and cook on both sides until they get well cooked.

Enjoy warm.