Patisapta pitha(stuffed pancake roll)

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Chef :

Kumkum Chatterjee

Patisapta pitha(stuffed pancake roll)

#dussehra This is a traditional Bengali sweet recipe specially made during festive season.A mixture of coconut and khowa and date palm jaggery makes it all the more delicious though there is an option of making it with sugar and cardamom powder and the other stuffing.

Ingredient

1 cup

all purpose flour or maida

1/2 cup

rawa or suji(semolina)

1 cup

milk

1 cup

grated coconut

1/2 cup

khowa or condensed milk

2 tbsp

crushed date palm jaggery

2 tbsp

sugar

1 tbsp

chopped pistachios

4 tbsp

oil approximately

Cooking instructions

* Step 1

Make a batter of suji and made with 1 cup milk and little water if needed.Add 2 tbsp sugar and set aside for 1/2 hour.

* Step 2

Meanwhile grate coconut. Heat a non stick pan and add the jaggery and little water and boil till jaggery gets diluted.Add grated coconut and stir constantly till it dries up.Add condensed milk or khowa and keep on stirring.It should nearly dry.

* Step 3

Heat a non stick tawa adding 1 tsp oil.Take a ladle full of maida and suji batter and spread it out into a round shape and fry in low heat till the sides tend to come up.Spread a little of coconut mixture in the pancake and roll it.Fry both sides till light brown.Serve garnished with chopped pistachios.Option is to spread a ladle full of condensed milk over the pancakes.

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