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Thanjavur Thengaipuri Recipe
THANJAVUR THENGAIPURI RECIPE
Ingredients:
for pancake
1cup refined flour (maida)
1/4 cup rice (chawal)flour
1 1/2 cups milk
1/4 tsp salt (namak)
1/4 cup coconut (narial) (scraped)
2 tblsp sugar (cheeni)
2 tbsps butter
3 eggs
for filling
1 1/2 cups coconut (narial) (scraped)
1/4 cup sugar (cheeni)
4 green cardamoms
a pinch camphor (edible)
refined oil to fry
4 tblsp icing sugar
How to make thanjavur thengaipuri:
- Sieve refined flour, rice flour and salt together. Soak ΒΌ cup scraped
coconut in 1 cup warm water, grind and extract the milk. Mix with the
remaining ingredients for the pancake (reserve the liquid of half egg),
whisk thoroughly and make a smooth batter. Rest for about an hour.
- Dilute the batter with water, if required, and make thin 6" pancakes
on a non-stick pan. Cook on both the sides for two minutes each. You
should be able to get about 16-20 pancakes.
- Pound the cardamom with little sugar to a fine powder, sieve and mix
with the remaining ingredients for the filling and divide it equally
as per the number of pancakes.
- Place the filling on one side of the pancake and roll it tightly once,
then fold the sides.
- Seal the edges with the reserved beaten egg and keep aside. Repeat
process with all the pancakes.
- Heat oil in a kadai and deep fry to golden brown.
- Serve warm dusted with icing sugar.
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