Sweet Potato Kuzhi Paniyaram

 I came upon this interesting dish on my Face Book feed a couple days ago. My friend likes to experiment with different dishes. Kuzhi paniyaram or unniappam is deep fried balls (sweet or savory) made with a dough of wheat flour, rice flour, jaggery, banana and coconut. These little guys can be deep fried in ghee or in kuzhi paniyaram pan (Aebleskiver pan). Thanks to my friend, I made this sweet dish with grated sweet potato. 

Ingredients:

1 Cup whole wheat flour

1/2 Cup rice flour

1/2 Cup grated coconut (fresh or frozen)

1 Cup jaggery (country brown sugar), dissolved in one cup water

1 teaspoon cardamom powder

1/2 teaspoon dry ginger powder (sukku) 

1 Cup peeled and grated sweet potato

ghee for frying

Method:

1. Mix wheat flour, rice flour, coconut, spices, and grated sweet potato in a large bowl.

                                                         

2. Stir in the jaggery water and mix well to make a thick batter, adding water as required. 

 

                                        

3. Heat the paniyaram pan or aebleskiver pan. Add a half teaspoon of ghee in each of the mold. Drop a tablespoon of the batter in each mold.

                                                               

4. Cook both sides on low flame to golden brown. Remove from the pan. Repeat process with the remaining batter. 

                                                              

5. Serve warm with tea or with ice cream as a dessert.

                                                    

Note:

You can deep fry the paniyaram in ghee by dropping spoon fulls of batter into hot ghee. 

You can make savory kuzhi paniyaram with idli batter.