Gharge |Bhoplyache gharge |sweet pumpkin poori|marathi bhopala vada

Gharge means sweet pumpkin poori . gharge is a traditional marathi recipe made with rice flour, jaggery and of course red pumpkin.

 

Gharge is basically a sweet puri  made using lal bhopla - pumpkin as a major ingredient.
easy to make and tasty. Healthy for kids as they will love these and not realise it has pumpkin in it.

In maharashtra its made generally during gauri ganpati festival or even on the eve of 'Hartalika puja'

i have even posted spicy pumpkin poori ( tikhat bhopla puri ) which you can check here

Made this sweet version during ganesh festival

Ingredients

Pumpkin(lal bhopla/kaddu )  - 2 cups (peel and grate it)
Grated jaggery (gul)- 1 cup (use  3/4 cup if you dont like too sweet)
Wheat flour - 1.5 cup
Fine Rava (Semolina) - 1/2 cup
Pure ghee - 1 teaspoon
pinch cardamom powder
Salt - a pinch
Oil to Deep fry.

 

Method:
1.peel bhopla grate it and keep aside .



2.Heat Ghee in Kadai, add grated pumpkin. Saute it and cover it for 2 minutes.



3.Now add jaggery and cook together till  bhopla is cooked . Once jaggery is melted and  mixed  well  with  pumpkin , remove from the flame.add pinch of salt and cardamom powder and mix well



4. Now add salt, wheat flour, rava to the pumpkin and make a dough of it.dough should be neither too tight nor too lose. If you feel it is loose you can add more flour to it. Let the dough cool.

5.Make small balls of dough. Roll puris with a  rolling pin or else you can pat them out  with fingers between two sheets of greased plastic with hand.(like we do for thalipeeth)



6. Deep fry these in hot oil until golden brown from both sides. Drain  Gharge on a tissue paper.






Tips

1. can be stored for 4-5 days without refrigeration.
2. you can skip rava and use 2 cups of wheat flour & make the poori  as per  above recipe
3. instead of grating you can pressure cook pumpkin drain and mash it and use pumpkin pulp to make pooris
4. dont add extra water to dough try to knead dough in water released by pumpkin mixture
5. traditionally rice flour used instead of wheat flour and gharge are patted on a banana leaf
6 if using rava soak it in equal amout of water before adding it