Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Kara Paniyaram/Savoury Paniyaram

                                               I like the paniyaram very much either it's sweet or savoury.In our home,my mom usually made sweet paniyaram.When i was in chennai,we usually went to ganga sweets at evenings.They serve all kind of chat items.There only i first tasted kara paniyaram along with sambhar and vengaya chutney.I liked it first time itself.Recently i was craving for kara paniyaram,so last week i prepared it long with vengaya chutney


Ingredients

For batter
Idly rice - 1 cup
Raw rice - 1 cup
Urad dal - 1/4 cup
Fenugreek seed - 1 tsp
salt

To Temper
Mustard - 1 tsp
Split urad dal - 1 tsp
Channa dal - 1 tbsp
Onion - 2 nos(finely chopped)
Curry leaves - 2 springs.


Coconut - 2 tbsp(grated)
Coriander leaves - few

Procedure

Soak all the ingredients listed under "For batter" except salt for 2-3 hrs.Grind into smooth batter and mix it with salt .Allow to ferment for overnight.

Heat the oil in the kadai,add the mustard once it pop up,add the remaining ingredients listed under " To temper" one by one .Saute it until the onion become translucent.

Add the tempering into the batter and mix it well.Heat the paniyaram pan and drizzle some oil in every hole of paniyaram pan.


Pour the batter into 3/4 of the every hole of paniyaram pan. Once the edges become brown and leave aside flip it and cook on other side.


Once it cooked on both sides,remove it and serve with any of your fauvorite chutneys/vengaya chutney like me or sambar or both. you can serve this as tea time snack.

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