Madli | Madali | A North Karnataka Sweet
Madali is a unique sweet thing prepared in North Karnataka region. This is a best food to carry while travelling as it lasts longer.
Servings: 3 people
Ingredients
- 1 cup Wheat flour
- 1/4 cup Fine rava
- 1 tbsp Gram flour
- 1/4 tsp Salt
- 1/2 cup Jaggery
- 2 tsp White sesame seeds
- 1 tsp Poppy seeds
- 1/2 tsp cardamom powder
- 1/2 tsp Dry ginger powder
- 1/4 cup Desiccated coconut
- 2 tsp Roasted gram
Instructions
- Initially roast poppy seeds and sesame seeds, keep aside till use. In a wide bowl add wheat flour, fine rava, gram flour and salt together. Give a quick mix. Adding water incrementally, knead a stiff dough. It should be stiffer than normal chapati dough.
- Let the dough rest for 15 minutes. Pinch a lemon sized ball and roll it like chapati dusting enough flour. It should be rolled bit thicker. Repeat the process with rest of the dough.
- Cook the chapati over hot skillet. You could see some brown spots both sides after cooking perfectly. When it is still warm, fold it many times lengthwise. And using rolling pin, press to break.
- Transfer all the broken chapati in to a mixer and whirl for a minute to get coarse powder. Next include jaggery and whirl again.
- Madli mixture is ready. Transfer this to a wide bowl. Add cardamom powder, ginger powder, roasted gram, roasted sesame, poppy seeds and desiccated copra. Combine everything well.
- The North Karnataka special Madli is ready to be served with milk and ghee.
Notes
- The flour should be slightly coarse to make Madli. So fine rava is added to normal wheat flour to get that coarse-ness.
- The dough should be kneaded stiff for this recipe.
- After making few chapatis, when they are still warm, it's required to be broken through rolling pin.
- You can increase jaggery as per your taste preferences.
- Madli is usually served with milk and ghee.