Serving: 20 to 25 pieces |Type: Chetinadu- Pillayar Nombu Special
Ingredients:
Long Grain Rice | -2cups |
Karuppatti powder | -1 to 1 ½ cup |
Water | -¼ to ½ cup |
Oil | -for deep fry |
Method:
- Soak the rice for ½ an hour.
- Drain the water and dry it in the paper towel for 15 to 20 minutes.
- Then powder it finely in the mixe .
- Now sieve ¾ of the flour in the sifter.
- Leave ¼ of the flour un-sieved, and mix it with sieved flour and keep it aside.
- Take a vessel add water and powdered karuppatti keep it in the stove.
- Boil it until the syrup bubbles up, but it doesn’t need to have any string consistency.
- Then slowly pour the syrup little by little then mix it into the ground powder until it looks like the chappati dough.
- Now add water to the dough mix it, to the consistency between idly and dosai mavu.
- Take a non-stick deep fry pan heat the then pour one deep spoon full of batter into the hot oil.
- Let the paniyaram float up and flip it then cook it for 30 seconds, then take it out from the oil.
- Place it on a paper towel to remove the excess oil.
- Now ready to serve.
Note:
- When mixing the batter, mix it in small quantity because it will be easier to adjust the consistency of the batter.
- Karuppatti is known as palm sugar.
- If you cannot find palm sugar, you can use dark brown sugar but this will alter the taste.
- You can make the dough ahead of time it will stay fresh in the fridge for 1 week.
- You can mix 1 cup Karuppati and 1/2 cup Vellam (jaggery).