Ethnic Meals
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The site concentrates on British recipes from Scotland, England and Wales with a few recipes from Ireland, India and France "thrown in". Primarily designed to provide ethnic recipes and meals, whether you are looking for an unusual meal, a straightforward meat, fish or poultry meal dish or even a sweet pudding recipe then hopefully you will find it here.

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Indian Recipe and Meal Ideas
Indian Food and Meal Ideas
Poli

A very traditional sweet. It is prepared on every occassion and during many festivals celebrated in India. A very famous sweet.
For US to UK equivalents see this rough guide

Recipe Ingredients:

  • Poornam:Boil gram-dal until half-cooked and drain the water.Add jaggery, grated coconut, cardomom and grind.Make it
  • tghick by heating in low heat for a little while. Make this into round balls.





Method:


Add a pinch of salt to maida and knead it by adding a few tsp of sesame oil and pat it on a plastic sheet into round flat
shape.place a ball of poornam on it, mix well and pat it again.Heat a griddle, put the poli and add a spoon of ghee around
it.Turn over until both s ides are cooked well.


As with all recipes which involve cooking and baking a sensible approach must be taken especially when dealing with warm or hot (temperature) ingredients. If you are unable to take due care, please do not attempt to make any of these recipes. All recipes are tried at your own risk.

For US to UK equivalents for food weights and measurements see this rough guide

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