Holige / Obbattu

   Finally, I am back to doing my favourite job of writing my blog. I was not able to update it for quite a long time since I was busy with my little one. Now i have decided to do some justice to my passion.

    Here is the recipe of one of the most loved sweet dishes of South Indian families and thats Holige. Its prepared on Ugadi (the new year of Kannadigas). We celebrated it just two days back with our families. People love to have it with milk and ghee. 

     There are various forms of Holige made with coconut, sugar etc. Here is the recipe for holige made with toor dal.

Ingredients:

Toor dal - 1 cup

Jaggery - 1 and 1/4 cup

Cardamom powder - 1 tsp

Maida - 1 cup

Wheat flour - 2 tbsp

Turmeric - 1/2 tsp

Salt - a pinch

Oil -1/2 cup

Ghee - 1/2 cup

Method:

            Take  a bowl and mix maida, wheat flour, turmeric and salt. Add sufficient water and make very soft dough.  Pour oil over dough and allow it to rest in oil for around two hours.

             Now cook the toor dal in the cooker for around two whistles. Blend the toor dal after removing the extra water from it. 

             Heat a heavy bottom pan and add a tsp of ghee to it. Add the ground dal to it. Powder the jaggery and add to it. Cook on low flame till the mix thickens and forms a thick paste consistency. Reduce the flame and add the cardamom powder to it. Mix well and switch off the flame. Allow the mix to cool down.

        Make balls out of dal mixture and keep this aside. This forms the filling. Take small quantity of dough mix and flatten it in your hands. Place the filling in it and close properly. Roll the dough as thin as possible. Heat a flat pan. Place the flattened dough on it and roast on both sides. Apply little ghee on both sides. Serve hot with ghee and milk.

Note:

     You can also mix both channa and toor dal for the stuffing.

Enjoy Cooking :)