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Malabar Enna Pathiri | Malabar Poricha Pathiri

Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 25 minutes
Course Breakfast, Snack
Cuisine Kerala

Ingredients
  

  • 1/2 Cup Grated coconut
  • 1/2 Tsp Cumin seeds
  • 10 Nos. Shallots
  • 1 No. Green chilly
  • 4 Nos. Garlic
  • 2 Cups Roasted rice flour(Pathiri podi)
  • 2 Tbsp Coconut oil
  • 3 Cups Water
  • Salt as required
  • Oil for frying
  • 1 Tsp Black sesame seeds

Instructions
 

  • Crush ginger garlic and green chilly with the help of a blender.
  • Heat oil in a wok or heavy bottomed pan. Add crushed ginger, garlic and green chilly. Saute for 1 minute till the raw smell goes off.
  • Mix the rice flour with required water in a separate vessel and pour it into the pan. Add salt as required and stir continuously in low flame. When the water absorbs, put off the flame, cover and rest for 15 minutes.
  • Meanwhile grind coconut and cumin seeds into a coarse paste.
  • Transfer the dough into a wide bowl and add the ground coconut, black sesame seed and knead well. Finally you get a soft non sticky dough.
  • Roll into thick circles, do not roll it thinly. And with the help of a cookie cutter or steel glass cut it into circles. It should have a minimum thickness of about 1.5 cm.
  • Heat oil in a pan and fry only 2-3 pathiris at a time, do not make it crowded. After adding it to the oil, set the flame to medium high flame. If the flame is too low, pathiri will absorb more oil. After some time pathiri will rise above the oil flip the side then. When the sides turns golden strain it out.
  • Malabar Enna pathiri is ready now.

Notes

You can visit this linkĀ Malabar Kannu Pathiri. You can also visit this linkĀ Poricha Pathiri.
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