Patishapta

I feel very very lazy these days. I am sure its something biological because unless my hormones are messing up and making me lethargic its impossible to find me idle. I loved blogging at every phase in my life all these years even when I found my research mundane but this time the procrastinating bug has bit me badly. So today I am forcing myself to work and I thought that should begin with a post here. I so happened to visit the HAL market in Bangalore with my hubby. He was all excited seeing a bengali eatery where they served luchis and patishapta. He was not keeping well that day so could not eat from the eatery so I tried out the patishapta on his behalf. It was soon after our sunday mass so I was quite hungry, I gorged the pancake in seconds.Since I felt bad for my hubby missing out all the fun I decided I would try this home. Finally when we tried this my hubby was still not well and I had to end up stuffing myself with too many of these pancakes but I was happy to see my hubby smile like an excited kid. I miss him badly today because he is out of town for a couple of weeks so this post is dedicated to him.

Ingredients of Patishapta

All purpose flour- 150 gm
Rice flour- 2 tbsp
Jaggery- 50 gm
Coconut grated- 100 gm
Cardamom- 2 pods cruushed
Ghee- 4 tbsp

Directions

Make a batter using  both the flours and water and keep it aside. I added a little bit of jaggery for a brownish colour. Melt the jaggery with very little water.

 In a pan heat some ghee and add the coconut. fry it a bit and add the jaggery and crushed cardamoms.Cook for 5-10 minutes the water content in the jaggery would have evaporated by now. Heat a pan to prepare the pancakes. Smear some ghee and pour a ladle full of batter.once the pancake is brown and crispy fill in the coconut filling and roll the pancake.

 Serve immediately though these pancakes tastes wonderful when cold too.