SPICY(KARA) KUZHI PANIYARAM

SPICY(KARA) KUZHI PANIYARAM

Ingredients:

To Make Batter:

• Raw Rice – 1 cup
• Boiled Rice or Idli Rice -1 cup
• Urad Dal – ¼ cup
• Fengreek Seeds – 1 table spoon

To Add into Batter:

• Oil – As needed
• Musterd seed – 1 tbsp
• Urad dal -  2 tbsp
• Bengal gram – 2 tbsp
• Onion – 1 (chopped)
• Green Chilies – 5 (Chopped)
• Ginger – 1 inch (Chopped)
• Cocunut – 5 tbsp (Grated or Chopped)
• Salt – As needed
• Curry leaves - 1 string. 

Method:

• Soak both rice and  Urad dal together in enough water for 3 to 4 hours.

• Grind it to coarse and thick  batter, add required salt to batter mix well and let it stand covered overnight like Idli batter.

• Keep them aside for 10 to 12 hours for fermentation. The batter will be raised twice the quantity, so make sure the container has enough space.

• Heat oil in a pan add the mustard seeds,Urad dal, Bengal gram and atlast,  add all the ingredients from (add into batter).

• Fry it for 2 minutes with low flame

• Add this mixture with batter. Mix them well

• Heat the paniyaram pan and apply half teaspoon of oil in each kuzhi (hole). Fill in the batter into each hole and add oil in drops into the sides of each kuzhi (hole).

• Turn when the sides turn golden brown

• Now the hot kara paniyaram is ready to serve with Coconut chutney or spicy (kara) Chutney.

Tips:

• Instead of using grated cocunut you can also cut them into thin slivers and further chop them before adding to the batter as it will provide a good crunch while eating.

• Always cook over low flame.

• instead of using the above batter, you can use idli batter and add half cup rava(sooji) into it .keep them aside for 1 hour and proceed to the same process as i said earlier.

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