Vegetable Paniyaram – How to make Vegetable Kuzhi Paniyaram

Vegetable Paniyaram – How to make Quick Vegetable Kuzhi Paniyaram – is an easy south indian breakfast dish made with idli dosa batter and mixed veggies, shallow fried into little dumplings. Traditionally its made from scratch… using equal parts of raw rice and boiled rice soaked with urad for few hours… then that ground batter (with no fermentation) is used to make panniyarams…But we resort to short cut method using leftover idli dosa batter for this recipe.

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Vegetable Paniyaram

Vegetable Paniyaram is a South Indian breakfast dish made with idli dosa batter and mixed veggies.

Prep Time10 minutes mins

Cook Time15 minutes mins

Total Time25 minutes mins

Course: Breakfast

Cuisine: Indian

Keyword: brekafast, kidslunchbox, kuzhipaniyaram, paniyaram

Servings: 20 Paniyarams

Author: Mullai Madavan

Ingredients

Main Ingredients

• 3 cups Idli Dosa Batter

Ingredients to temper

• 1 tablespoon Oil
• 1/2 teaspoon Mustard seeds
• 1/2 teaspoon Split black gram
• 1/2 teaspoon Cumin seeds
• 5 each Curry leaves minced
• 1/4 teaspoon Asafoetida

Ingredients to saute

• 1/4 cup Onion chopped,preferably shallots
• 2 each Green chilli minced
• 1/2 cup Carrot, Beans, Cabbage any mixed veggie of choice
• 1/4 cup Leafy greens (i have used amaranth) chopped
• 1 teaspoon Ginger minced
• 1 tablespoon Grated Coconut
• 1/4 teaspoon Salt just for the veggies
• 1/4 teaspoon Turmeric powder
• 2 tablespoons Oil for making the paniyaram

Instructions

• Heat oil in a pan and temper with mustard, split black gram, cumin, asafoetida and curry leaves.
• Saute the minced veggies. Onion, green chilli, ginger, carrots, leafy greens along with tiny bit of salt. Add in the turmeric powder too.
• Add the to the pre made idli dosa batter and give it quick mix to combine everything. 
• Heat the kuzhi paniyaram pan and pour few drops of oil in each dent / kuzhi. Pour in about 2 tablespoons of batter in each.
• Cover and cook of 5 minutes over medium flame.
• Now flip to the other side and cook for another 4 to 5 minutes or until it gets crispy on the outside.
• Once done, remove and serve with chutney.

Notes

You may use any combination of veggies. Minced broccoli, cauliflwer, cabbage works too.

Sauteed veggie style taste better than raw veggies.

 

 

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Heat oil in a pan and temper with mustard, split black gram, cumin, asafoetida and curry leaves.Saute the minced veggies. Onion, green chilli, ginger, carrots, leafy greens along with tiny bit of salt. Add in the turmeric powder too.Add the to the pre made idli dosa batter and give it quick mix to combine everything.

Heat the kuzhi paniyaram pan and pour few drops of oil in each dent / kuzhi. Pour in about 2 tablespoons of batter in each.Cover and cook of 5 minutes over medium flame.Now flip to the other side and cook for another 4 to 5 minutes or until it gets crispy on the outside.

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Once done, remove and serve with spicy  GARLIC CHUTNEY   or      THENGAI CHUTNEY   or    IDLI MILAGAI PODI    or just serve it plain.