A meal fit for a leader would be a meal that satisfies the soul. There is one such food item that my mother makes - it's called "Galyi Rotli".
In my native language, "galyi" means sweet and "rotli" means bread. So it is essentially sweet bread.
It's made as follows - put lentils in water for a few hours. Then add sugar and boil them in a pressure cooker till the lentils go soft. This makes the lentils super delicious. Now set it to cool.
Then moving on to the bread - prepare a basic dough out of some wheat flour, and let it rest.
Once the lentils have cooled, create a doughball. Roll it out to make it a little flat. Then but a ball of the lentils in the middle of the dough. Stretch up the dough to cover the lentils and then roll out a flat bread from this lentil filled doughball. Cook it on a flat pan and once done, apply liberal amounts of clarified butter (ghee) to the cooked bread. Enjoy!
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Also, my sincere thanks for the feature. You are so gracious Arjan! 🤗
Oh, that sounds delicious. I will keep this recipe and try to make it one day. Not sure if I can get the lentils right. Is it a specific type? I have a feeling the green puy lentils I often use might not be the right ones.
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A meal fit for a leader would be a meal that satisfies the soul. There is one such food item that my mother makes - it's called "Galyi Rotli".
In my native language, "galyi" means sweet and "rotli" means bread. So it is essentially sweet bread.
It's made as follows - put lentils in water for a few hours. Then add sugar and boil them in a pressure cooker till the lentils go soft. This makes the lentils super delicious. Now set it to cool.
Then moving on to the bread - prepare a basic dough out of some wheat flour, and let it rest.
Once the lentils have cooled, create a doughball. Roll it out to make it a little flat. Then but a ball of the lentils in the middle of the dough. Stretch up the dough to cover the lentils and then roll out a flat bread from this lentil filled doughball. Cook it on a flat pan and once done, apply liberal amounts of clarified butter (ghee) to the cooked bread. Enjoy!
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Also, my sincere thanks for the feature. You are so gracious Arjan! 🤗
Oh, that sounds delicious. I will keep this recipe and try to make it one day. Not sure if I can get the lentils right. Is it a specific type? I have a feeling the green puy lentils I often use might not be the right ones.
https://www.spiceupthecurry.com/puran-poli-recipe/
Here's a recipe, the lentils we use are the yellow ones called "toor daal", or as Google tells me "pigeon peas" in English. Give it a shot! 😀