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Obbattu Recipe
How to Make Obbattu
Obbattu Recipe: Obbattu is a south indian style bread, which is made with a sweet filling. It is mainly prepared with maida, jaggery, cardmom and toovar dal.
- Total Cook Time 35 mins
- Prep Time 05 mins
- Cook Time 30 mins
- Recipe Servings3
- Easy
Ingredients of Obbattu
- 2 Cups toor dal 50
- 500 gram finely grated jaggery
- 1 tsp cardamom powder
- 1.5 cup finely grated coconut
- 350 gram maida
- 7 tsp of oil (or as required)
- A pinch of salt
- 1 tsp turmeric
How to Make Obbattu
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Soak the dal for 20 minutes and in the meantime, work on the dough.
2.
Add maida, salt, turmeric, and water (it was about half a cup or less) to knead the dough.
3.
Keep adding oil to the mixture whenever it gets too sticky. You can use ghee instead.
4.
Let the dough rest for two hours, at least.
5.
For the stuffing, cook the dal in 5 cups of water approximately, until tender but not mushy.
6.
Then drain the water. Let it cool.
7.
Grind the dal with coconut, jaggery, and cardamom, without adding any water until it becomes a smooth paste.
8.
Stir the mixture on a low flame until it becomes thicker. Then let it cool.
9.
Divide the dough and the dal-coconut mixture into equal portions, and make little balls of them.
10.
Next, roll each sphere of dough like a puri, place a sphere of stuffing on it, and then cover it with the dough.
11.
On greased butter paper, carefully roll out the sphere into a chapati size.
12.
Cook it on a greased tawa until golden, Keep adding oil around the edges.
13.
Once it is golden brown, take it off the flame and serve it with a blob of ghee.
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