Recipe of Patishapta
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Ingredients:
For Patishapta:
120gms flour
60gms rice flour or finely powdered rice
1/8 teaspoon sodium bicarbonate
250 ml milk, Ghee for shallow frying
For Filling:
100 gms fresh coconut, grated, 100 gms sugar
100 gms thickened milk/kheer or 1/2 cup condensed milk omit sugar if used, Nuts and raisins, chopped and added to filling optional
Steps:
In a bowl mix flour, rice flour and bicarbonate of soda with milk. Mix to a smooth batter and set aside for half an hour.
In a karai, stir together the coconut, sugar and milk until they adhere together in a soft moist mass. Remove karai from the fire and allow filling to cool.
Heat a 6-inch frying pan and grease with a drop of ghee.
swirl pan around so that it is evenly coated with the hot ghee.
Drop 2 tablespoons batter into the frying pan and swirl pan around to coat evenly with batter.
Allow batter to set and cook until the patishapta turns brown.
With teaspoon spread filling half-inch wide across patishapta at one end.
Fold patishapta over filling and roll over to the other end. Remove from pan. Serve hot or cold.
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Bikramjit Ray joined CNN IBN in August 2005 with a single purpose, to do a food program. Before that, he had somehow managed to get an honours degree in Political Science from Jadavpur University, a fact that continues to befuddle both his batch-mates as well as his professors. He then went on to spend 10 years in journalism, beginning life as a trainee sports reporter in the Times of India and ending it as an Assistant Editor with Today, the tabloid brought out by the India Today group. He worked in the Indian Express for 7 years during this decade and wrote extensively on food in the gourmet section. In January 2005, Bikramjit brought out the India Today 100 top restaurant guide for Delhi. Bikramjit has been associated with Secret Kitchen from its inception, he was fully involved in its birth. Supported by his location producer/director/cinematographer who, along with the Executive Producer of the show are the only two people Bikramjit is actually scared of. Bikramjit's major obsession from a tubby childhood to an obese adulthood remains food. Other interests include reading, voraciously. Surprise, surprise, not always food, but historical crime fiction, and watching TV-especially the midnight advertorials!Recent Posts
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