Bobbatlu

Ingredients:
For dough:

• All purpose flour (Maida) 3 cups
• Salt                      1/4 tsp
• Oil                       1/4 cup
• Ghee                      4 tsp

Method:

1. In a mixing bowl add Allpurpose flour,salt mix well, now slowly add oil and ghee and rub well 
2. Now add enough water to make a soft and sticky dough, knead well for a 5 min. then leave this a side for 2-3 hours(this is very importent for this dough you have to knead the dough very well and leave it for 2-3 hours this makes the dough soft and bobbatu will be very soft if you don't do this you may get hard bobbatu) 

Ingedients for filling:

• Chana dal                         2cups
• Jaggary                             3 cups
• Cardamom powder           1 tsp
• Ghee for frying

Method:

1. Soak dal for 1/2 hour then start cooking in a sauce pan and cook till dal became soft and well cooked.
2. In the same time grate jaggary take it in to a pan add 1 tab sp water and cook till one boil switch off the flame and let it cool and strain it in to the dal.
3. Now again start cooking the dal and jaggery mixture, take a aloo masher or a spoon and mash the dal well when it is cooking only and cook till dal and jaggery mixture become like a ball and the dal should be completely mashed,
4. Now add cardamom powder now remove from the heat and leave a side to cool.
5. After dal and jaggay mixture became cool divide in to equal balls.
6. Heat a fry pan or tawa and apply some oil or ghee keep the heat in low flame.
7. For making these Bobbatlu banana leaf is the best choice.
8. Take a banana leaf or a plastic sheet and aply some oil on it
9. (what ever you like).
10. Now take a small portion of the dough and spread it on the banana leaf in to a circle and place the dal and jaggery ball in the middle of the dough circle.
11. And cover it with the dough from all sides.Apply little oil to your fingers and start pressing the ball in to a circle .
12. Slowly spread it out If your dough is well soked and dal mixture is well mashed and soft not too dry then you can spread it out easily.Spread with your fingers only.
13. Once you finished spreading the Bobbatu then lift the banana leaf with bobbatu and place it on the hot tawa up side down means banana leaf should be on the top and bobbatu is on the tawa and just lift and remove the banana leaf from the bobbatu.
14. sprinkle ghee around the sides and cook both sides till nice golden color.
15. Remove from the tawa and let it cool before storing.