Paniyara Aapam

This is a yummy and delicious snack or a tiffin variety. These dumplings are made with rice and urad dal batter. It goes fantastic with coconut milk. Try this recipe once in your lifetime.

 Happy Cooking :)

Ingredients
For Batter
Idli Rice – 1 Cup
Urad Dal – a handful
Fenugreek Seeds – ¼ tsp
Grated Coconut – ½ Cup
Cooked Rice -1 Cup
Salt to taste
Brown Sugar/jaggery – 4 tsp
Ghee – 4 to 5 tsp
For Coconut Milk
Coconut Milk – 1 Cup
Cardamom Powder – ½ tsp
Jaggery – ¼ Cup
Salt a pinch
Method
Soak rice, urad dal, fenugreek seeds with enough water for at least 4 hours.
Then add these ingredients into the grinder along with grated coconut and cooked rice and grind it as fine paste. Once it done, add require salt and mix well then transfer this into big vessel.
We must wait for another 12 hours for fermentation, that time batter will be ready. Once it done, add sugar and 2 tsp of ghee into the batter.
Heat the paniyaram pan, add few drops of ghee. Now add the spoonful of the batter till ¾ of the mold.
Cook the dumplings till they become golden brown from all sides and repeat the process and keep aside.