Obbattlu

Ingredients:

For Stuffing:

• Channa dal---1cup
• water--- 4cups
• Sugar---less than 1 cup
• Salt---2 pinch
• Elachi Powder---1/2 tsp

For Outer part:

• Maida---1 1/2 cup
• Salt---1 pinch
• Sugar---1tbs
• Ghee---1/2 tbs
• Water --- Required
• Oil---1/2 cup

Preparation:

For Stuffing:

• Put the channa dal and water in a pressure cooker. Cook it for 5 whistles. Remove the dal from the cooker And drain the excess water into another vessel. Keep this water aside. This water can be used to make kattu which is served with obbattlu.
• Cool the dal. Try to make into paste by pressing with the hands.
• Now add the sugar, salt to it and blend the mixture in a mixer.
• Add elachi powder to it and make the mixture into small round balls as shown.

For the outer Part:

• Take the maida in the bowl, add salt, sugar and ghee to it. Mix it and make it into smooth dough by adding water to it.
• The dough should be smoother than chapathi dough.
• knead the dough and keep it a side for 2 min.
• Then soak the dough in the oil as shown for half an hour.

Obbattlu:

• Take a banana leaf, put oil on it. Take a small amount of maida dough press with hands to in round chapathi and put the stuffing on it and cover the stuffing with dough and press the ball in to chapathi with hands as shown.

• Fry this on a non stick pan using oil or ghee like chapathi.