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Taler Luchi | Janmasthami special Bengali Sugar Palm Flatbread

Taler Luchi is a delicious flatbread made with All-purpose flour and Sugar Palm extract aka Taler Mari (in Bengali). 

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Course: Main
Cuisine: Bengali
Keyword: bengali taal recipe, Debjanir Rannaghar, janmasthami recipe, sugar palm recipe, taal-er luchi, taler luchi recipe
Prep Time: 30 minutes
Cook Time: 15 minutes
Total Time: 45 minutes
Servings: 20 portions
Calories: 128kcal
Author: Debjani Chatterjee Alam
Cost: Rs 200

Ingredients

To make sugar palm extract

  • 1 Sugar Palm Taal, Palmora

To make Taler Luchi

  • 300 g All-purpose Flour 2 cups
  • ½ Tsp. Salt
  • 1 Tbsp. Ghee
  • 1 cup Sugar Palm extract reduced
  • 200 ml Vegetable Oil for deep-frying

Instructions

Sugar palm extract

  • Extracting Sugar Palm Juice for taler Bora
  • Take one ripe sugar palm. You need to extract the pulp.
  • After that, you will have to reduce the pulp by cooking.
  • This reduced pulp will be used in making the luchi.
  • First, remove the crown from the sugar palm. and discard the fibrous skin.
  • Now separate the sugar palm from the mid.
  • You will get 2 or 3 seeds covered with pulpy fibrous fruit.
  • Now sprinkle some water over a seed.
  • Take either a basket or a grater or an edgy container or bowl and start grating the fruit.
  • The fruit pulp will easily be separated from the seed while grating.
  • You can sprinkle water once in a while doing it.
  • Once done, strain the pulp to remove the fiber.
  • Once the grating is done, take the pulp in a pan and start cooking it on low flame.
  • Cook for around 7 minutes.
  • By this time the pulp will be reduced to half and also will be cooked and ready for the next step. Wait till it is room temperature to follow further steps.
  • You need around ⅔ cup- 1 cup pulp to make 20 taal er luchi.

Making Taler Luchi

  • Take All-purpose flour in a bowl.
  • Now add ½ Tsp. Salt to it and mix.
  • Add 1 Tbsp. Ghee and mix till the mixture turn crumbly.
  • Now by adding cooked sugar palm pulp (in small portions) to the flour make a semi-soft dough.
  • The dough must not be tough.
  • You may need ⅔ cup to 1 cup reduced pulp to make the dough.
  • Once done, keep the dough for 15 minutes before making the Luchi.
  • Cut the dough into small portions- around 20.
  • Shape each portion into balls.
  • Now heat sufficient vegetable oil in a pan.
  • take one flour ball and place it on the rolling surface.
  • You may spear some oil on it.
  • Now using the rolling pin flatten the flour ball.
  • Make a round-shape flatbread.
  • Now fry the flatbread in the already heated oil.
  • While frying lower the flame.
  • Using a spatula press a bit in the middle while frying.
  • This way, the luchi will be puffy.
  • Once fried from one side, flip it and fry the other side.
  • Strain from the oil and follow the same process shape and fry remaining luchi.

Video

Notes

You can use Ghee instead of Oil if you are not that calorie-conscious

Nutrition

Serving: 50g | Calories: 128kcal | Carbohydrates: 13g | Protein: 1.6g | Fat: 7.7g | Saturated Fat: 1.8g | Cholesterol: 2mg | Sodium: 59mg | Fiber: 0.5g | Sugar: 1.3g
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