Kuzhi Paniyaram (Sweet)

Kuzhi paniyaram is one of the most traditional recipe in South India. It is exclusively prepared in Kuzhi Paniyaram  pan. If it is a non-stick Paniyaram pan, your work will be much easier than the ordinary one.
If you have thick Idly batter you can prepare with that also but it is more and more delicious with the original recipe. With the following batter recipe both sweet and spicy recipe can be prepared.

Ingredients
1 cup Idly rice
1 cup Raw rice
1/2 cup urad dal
2 teaspoons Fenugreek seeds

salt for fermenting

For sweet mixing

3 cups jaggery

1 cup Coconut flakes (optional)

1/2 teaspoon Cardamon powder

1 tablespoon Water 

Method

• Wash and soak rice, dal, fenugreek seeds together for 6-8 hrs.
• Grind into fine thick batter. try avoiding water when grinding the batter.
• Add salt and mix well and allow it to ferment for overnight or 10 hrs.
• Powder the jaggery and bring it to boil by adding 1 tablespoon of water, do not add much water, when the whole jaggery is melted, turn off the heat.
• Filter the melted jaggery, with the strainer to remove the dust.
• Add the filtered syrup, cardamon powder to the batter and mix well. The batter should be neither too thick nor too thin.
• Heat and grease the paniyaram pan with sufficient oil and pour the batter in the pan.
• After a minute flip it to the other side. There is no need to cover the pan with the lid.
• Serve hot.

Note

I always prefer to add coconut flakes with the batter, because the paniyaram will be more soft than usual.