Sweet potato stuffed flat bread/ Sweet potato Boli

Sweet potato stuffed paratha

Flat bread filled with different ingredients is my all time favourite. On my storage shelf, I had 2 sweet potatoes which were past their prime. I didn’t want to make fries with them as I had plans to make Chappati for dinner. Combining these two, the dough and sweet potatoes I decided to make Boli -a flat bread with sweet stuffing. To make it healthy, I opted for whole wheat instead of white flour. I was grinning all the way while rolling it because creating something different with traditional recipes gives me an awesome pleasure.

Ingredients 

• 2 cups wheat flour
• salt
• water

Filling

• 2 medium sweet potatoes
• 20 pitted dates
• few almonds
• 2 cardamom pods

1. Wash sweet potato and chop them into chunks.
2. Steam them until soft.
3. Remove skin after it has cooled and mash it to a pulp with a spoon.
4. Chop pitted dated to small bits.
5. Heat a heavy bottom pan and add one tsp ghee to fry the pulp with chopped dates.
6. When water evaporates, add ground almonds and crushed cardamom seeds.
7. Allow this filling to cool while the dough is made.
8. To make the dough, add salt and water to whole wheat flour and knead well.
9. Take two small balls and roll it as thinly as possible.
10. Mark a circle on one flat bread with a sharp edged container.
11. Add filling in its center and spread it leaving a small edge.
12. Place the other rolled bread on top and using the container cut out a perfect circle with the filling inside.
13. Seal the edge with finger tips and cook it on a hot griddle.
14. Spread melted butter on hot sweet potato filled flat bread.

It can serve as a dessert or snack. This sweet Boli can be eaten guilt free as no sugar is added. I made almost 10 stuffed bread taking quite some time to shape them. Then I proceeded to make my regular chappaties for dinner. To complete dinner I added a sweet boli.

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