Kuzhi Paniyaram Recipe

Description

Kuzhi Paniyaram is a popular Chettinad tiffin item, where fermented rice  and lentil batter mixed with seasoning and steamed in special pans which comes with little golf ball size holes (kuzhi in Tamil). These paniyarams can be made either sweet or savoury. The savoury dish is called Kaara Kuzhi Paniyaram and here is how you make it.
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Ingredients
1 cup Raw rice (pachai arisi)
1 cup Idli rice
½ cup Split black gram
¼ teaspoon Fenugreek seeds
1 Onion (finely chopped)
2 Green chili (finely chopped)
1 inch Ginger (minced)
10 Curry leaves (chopped)
¼ teaspoon Mustard
¼ teaspoon Cumin seeds
¼ teaspoon Split black gram (ullundu)
2 teaspoon Oil (for sauteing)
3 stks Coriander leaves (chopped )
5 tablespoon Oil (for paniyarams)
 1 & 1/2 teaspoon Salt
Turmeric powder  1/4 teaspoon (this is optional, gives good color)

Instructions

Soak both rice and split black gram in water with fenugreek seeds for at least 5 hours or overnight. Grind it to idli batter consistency, add in salt, mix well and allow it to ferment for at least 6 hours.

 

 

 

Heat 2 tsp oil and splutter mustard, cumin, split black gram and finely chopped curry leaves. Add the chopped onion along with green chilies and ginger. Saute for few minutes and switch off.

Add this sauteed mixture to the fermented batter along with turmeric and finely chopped coriander leaves. Mix well to combine and keep the batter ready.

 

 

 

Heat the paniyaram pan over medium flame and gently rub or add a few drops of oil in each Kuzhi(hole). Pour a laddleful of batter in each kuzhi, cover and cook for 4 to 5 minutes. When done, flip to the other side using a spoon or paniyaram stick(this usually comes with the pan also known as paniyaram lifter)and cook again for another 5 minutes or until its evenly browned. Repeat the process for the remaining batches and serve with choice of chutney.

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Notes

Turmeric powder is optional. Traditional chettinad kuzhi paniyaram does not include this  and looks little pale. Just to add little color turmeric is added.

Do not cook the paniyarams over high heat, always keep the setting over medium or else it would end up too dark on the outside with half cooked batter on the inside.

To make a quick tiffin, use leftover sour idli/dosai batter for this recipe.

Comments

22 responses to “Kuzhi Paniyaram Recipe”

  1. lishia Avatar
    lishia

    It looks really nice, I miss tasting Kuzhi Paniyaram. The first time I tried it I was at one of the hotels in Delhi, it was amazing and I've been trying to get a recipe then but nobody would gave to me. I am really glad i found it here.

  2. sandhya_b14 Avatar
    sandhya_b14

    Hi Mullai, thanks for the kara paniyaram receipe…. Can u please please post sweet/vellai paniyaram recipe please… If u tell what alteration should be made in this recipe itself to make it Sweet is also enough for me…

  3. jkbrinda Avatar
    jkbrinda

    Hi Mullai thakns for posting this receipe. how can i make sweet paniyaram.

  4. anuratha Avatar
    anuratha

    it was very nice,there was nothing balance in the plate.i added some small pieces of coconut with the batter.niceand crunchy

  5. gayu1981 Avatar
    gayu1981

    Hi

    I love to make this paniyarams. But I have a question.I live in the US, in an apartment. My kitchen has that typical old style electric stove top (almost all apartments have only such stove) with the round coil cooking range. I have a traditional paniyaram pan-nonstick in India, I thought i wont be able to keep that on such stove top,(i had a problem with a dosa pan,it was not getting heated)so i left it there.

    So pls let me know if it is possible to cook on such a stove top, i will try to get mine thru’ my freinds who visit india soon:-)

    thanks so much in advance

  6. subhavignesh Avatar
    subhavignesh

    Hi,

    Iam new to this site n found it very useful . i dont know wat is pacha arsi, actually i got jasmine rice from cost co in big bag, so i have to use that for my cooking now. can u pls tel me if i can use this insted of pacha arsi?

  7. padhu Avatar
    padhu

    hi Mullai thanks for all the recipes .I had tried some of the recipes.It turned out well.I would appreciate if u give me gobi 65 recipe.my childrens love to eat gobi 65.

  8. jlakshmi Avatar
    jlakshmi

    Mullai

    I made 6 recipes from SIO and this was one of them, added to my Ganesh Chathurthi recipe…Very good with coconut chutney.

    Regs
    Jaya

  9. pramilashriyan Avatar
    pramilashriyan

    i wanted to know whats the difference between RAW RICE AND IDLI RICE?

  10. bijay Avatar
    bijay

    Hi the photos are so wonderful. will surely try this and see. Very good recipes in your site. Thanks for posting them.

  11. shan Avatar
    shan

    Dear ma’am y’day i tried Paniyaram for b’fast…Tastes awesome. Thanks for ur receipe

    Have a great day

  12. babitha_l Avatar
    babitha_l

    hey millu can u post pal paniayaram i like it very much its a famous dish in KARAKUDI man.

  13. Manoo Avatar
    Manoo

    Again nice small cute man chattis… I really love them… we used to play with them whn we were kids. You know ryt kids cook mixed vege rice with those small man sattis…. I remember it.. ok iam talking like iam 30 35 yrs old… I think i should stop commenting… did lot today… sethu vaichu i wrote all today… exams over…… woooohoooooo

  14. Manoo Avatar
    Manoo

    We got mixie.. The wet one.. So thinking to make this… I saw kundu thosai satti (we call it kundu thosai) somewhere.. must check it out before chinese new yr… we are gonna have big time in two weeks…Thanks for posting it mam….

  15. Visitor Avatar
    Visitor

    Hi Mullai,

    Can u tell me the alternative for not having a paniyaram pan?
    Can i do the same in an idli pan?

    Pls do tell me whether we can get paniyaram pan here in US?

  16. kumaravel.k Avatar
    kumaravel.k

    Hi, sister mullai,!st time i visit ur site. it is very useful. thank u

    1. Mullai Avatar
      Mullai

      Hi Kumaravel, thanks for stopping by. Being you first time, must have had enough to sneak into, am I right?

  17. jeyalakshmi Avatar
    jeyalakshmi

    wow, picture is really tempting. will definetely try. thanks, Mullai.

  18. ramyakalyankrishnan Avatar
    ramyakalyankrishnan

    Hi Mullai Thanks for posting this recipe…The picture shown here is very very tempting..I shall try it out today…Thanks

    1. Mullai Avatar
      Mullai

      Ramya, goodluck and get back to me with the results.