Bili Holige |Stuffed Rice Flour Paratha | Rice Flour Puran Poli

Bili holige or rice flour stuffed paratha is a flatbread with mildly spiced rice flour dough stuffed inside a wheat flour covering.

It is easy to make with minimum ingredients from any Indian kitchen pantry . Gets ready within 30 minutes from start to finish.

You can serve this with any spicy curry like Egg masala , stuffed baingan (yennegayi) or spicy chicken curry.

Bili Holige is a speciality recipe from Karnataka which is not very common. It’s in the verge of lost recipes of Karnataka.

Bili is kannada means “white” and holige refers to “ sweet flat bread / puran poli “ but Unlike traditional pooran polis , these bili holiges are not sweet ones but savoury variety .

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Ingredients

To make stuffing

1 cup rice flour

2 teaspoon green chilli paste

1 teaspoon ginger paste

½ teaspoon cumin seeds

2 tablespoon coriander leaves, chopped

1 ¾ cup water approximately (adjust as required , depends on flour)

1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon oil

For outer covering dough

1 cup wheat flour

1 cup all-purpose flour

2 teaspoon oil

½ teaspoon salt

½ cup water or as required

How to make Bili Holige

Dough for outer covering

Into a mixing bowl , add all-purpose flour, wheat flour, salt and mix well.

Make a well at the centre ; add water and oil.

Mix well to make a smooth dough. Cover with a kitchen napkin and set aside for 20-30 minutes.

To make rice flour stuffing

Whilst, in a sauce pan , bring water to rolling boiling.

Add green chilli paste , grated ginger , coriander leaves , cumin seeds , salt and oil to the boiling water.

Now regulate the heat to medium -low and add rice flour.

Mix well everything, cover and keep on simmer for 5 minutes.

Turn off the stove and mix well everything.

Transfer it on a wide plate , when you can handle the heat ; knead to smooth dough ( make sure that dough is still warm)

Make equal size balls and cover with a damp cloth.

To roll paratha

Now pinch some dough for outer covering and roll into a 4-inch size small disc.

Place a prepared rice flour dough ball at centre, bring all outer edges together and cover.

Now roll paratha into 6-inch diameter circle.

To roast paratha

Heat a iron griddle and spread some oil over the tava .

Place rolled paratha on hot griddle .

Drizzle some oil on sides ; flip and cook until brown spots appears on both sides.

Serve Bili holige with any spicy curry of your choice.