Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Kothumaimavu paniyaram (Wheat flour sweet)

Wheat flour sweet (Kothumaimavu paniyaram) - Preparation time 20 mins
Wish you all an excellent, joyful, happy and prosperous new year :-).
This will be little health snack when compared to maida paniyaram because we are going to use wheat flour and jaggery (rich in iron) to make this sweet. Surely it will be an yummy, tasty and excellent snack for you and your lovely family. Let the new year be sweet and tasty as this paniyaram. Can be made in few minutes with the ingredients in our home.

Ingredients:- Wheat flour - 1 cup
Grated coconut - 3 tbsp
Powdered cardamon - 1/2 tbsp
Powdered jaggery - 1/2 or 3/4 cup (take same cup you measured for maida)
Water - as required

Cashew - 6 to 10 (broken to small pieces)
Rice flour - 1 tbsp
Oil - to deep fry


Preparation method:-
In a vessel add sugar with few water. Boil and remove the dirt in jaggery using a filter. Make the jaggery syrup sticky.

To the wheat flour add the jaggery syrup little along with grated coconut,rice flour, cardamon powder, broken cashew pieces. Mix well so that no lumps exist.
Add the jaggery syrup till the mixture is of thick paste. If taken in laddle it should be in pouring consistency ( take care that in should not be so liquid because the shape on paniyaram wont be good).
In tawa heat oil in very low flame (lowest flame in your stove).
When oil is hot pour one small laddle of the flour mixture. It will rise to the surface of the oil. Keep turning the paniyaram so that it will be cooked evenly. The colour changes slightly and bubbles will come down.
Take out from oil and transfer to tissue paper to take out the excess oil from the sweet.
You and your family might like this sweet.  

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