Sweet kuzhi paniyaram

Ingredients:

Idly rice / Boiled rice -1cup
Raw rice - 1 cup
Urad dal - 1/2 cup
Fenugreek - 2tsp
Salt - to taste ( for fermenting)

For Mixing:

Jaggery - 3 ~ 31/2 cups or to taste
Water - 2tbsp
Coconut flakes - 1 cup ( optional )
Broken Cashews - as required ( optional )
Raisins - as required ( optional)
Cardamon powder - 1/4tsp

Method:

• Wash & soak rice, Dal, Fenugreek seeds together for 6 ~ 7  hours.
• Grind it into fine batter as we do for Appam batter.
• Add required salt & mix well using your hand and allow it ferment for 10 - 12 hours.
• Powder the jaggery & heat it adding 2 tbsp of water.
• Bring it to boil & make sure the is no jaggery cubes. Don't want any syrup consistency, we just want all jaggery to Melt
• Filter, melted jaggery directly to the batter with help of tea stainer to remove the dust from it.
• Add rest of the mixing ingredients to the batter & mix well, batter should be in running consistency neither too thick nor too thin.
• Heat & grease the kuzhi paniyaram with oil in medium low heat & drop landleful of batter in each holes.
• Drizzle required amount of oil over it & cover the pan.
• After 2 minutes, Remove the lid & flip it to other side. Do not cover this time & cook in low until it turn golden brown colour.
• Serve hot.

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