Dudhpuli

Dudhpuli is one of the famous and delicious pithe from west Bengal during Makarsankranti / Poushsankranti.This coconut -kheer/mawas /data palm jaggery stuffed dumplings boiled in thick milkand milk flavoured with date palm jaggery.

Ingredients -----

For stuffing

Fresh grated coconut - 1cup
Unsweeten kheer /mawa - 70 cms
Sugar - 5tbsp / adjust as per your sweettooth
Milk - 2/4 cup
Green cardamom powder - 1tsp

For shell

Refine flour - 1cup
Semolina / suji - 4tbsp
Salt - 1/2 tsp
Water for kneading

For dudh / Milk kheer

Milk - 1 ltr
Sugar - 5-6tp / adjust as per your sweettooth
Unsweeten Mawa - 4tbsp
Green cardamom powder - 1 tsp

Method

Stuffing --- heat a kadai.. Add mawa and milk .stir continuously till mawa completely melt..now add grated coconut ,sugar...stirring constantly until coconut mixture starts to separate from the kadai and oil of coconut and mawa leaves the side of the PAN..then add cardamom powder.mix well..turn off gas..keep aside..let it cool

Shell --- take a bowl add refine flour ,suji/ semolina,salt ..combine all..now add water little by little and knead soft smooth daugh..cover it for 15-20 minutes..

Meanwhile heat a saucepan .add 1litr milk..stir occasionally.

Now take small portion from daugh..make a little ball.place it on your plam.pree little.it will be look like a circular disc.add 1tsp coconut mixture centre of the disc...press two opposite site wings and seal the edges by pinching with fingers.ready puli..when you will make one puli /dumpling keep covered others..

When milk starts boiling add mawa.stir constantly till mawa dissolves..then add raw puli into the boiling milk ..then reduce flame on low- meduim fire till 10-15 minutes..when you will see puli s are looking little bigger in size anda also started to float on top.means Puliampatty are cooked....now add sugar .give a nice stir to dissolve it..add cardamom powder..

Ready dudhpuli.