खावा पोळी (मावा पोळी)

Khava poli (also called mawa poli) is a less codified cousin of puran poli, built on the same stuffed-flatbread structure but with a khoya-and-sugar filling in place of the traditional dal-jaggery puran. Where puran poli has a long, well-documented lineage across multiple Indian regions, khava poli reads more like a household or regional variation, likely arising from areas or families with easy access to fresh khoya, rather than a single, widely traced tradition. It’s worth treating this history as an educated framing rather than a settled fact: if you know a more specific regional or family origin for this dish, that’s worth adding here instead.