Recipe CookBook

Paatraa (gujrati special)

Cooking time: As Required

Serves : 4

Ingredients :

10-15 Colocasia leaves

1 cup gram Flour (besan)

1/4 cup jawar Flour (optional)

2 Green Chillies or 2 tsp red chilly powder

1 tbsp Jaggery

1 tsp Tamarind (seedless) juice

1/2 tsp Turmeric powder

2 pinch of Asafoetida (hing)

1/2 cup Coriander leaves chopped or 1tsp Coriander seed powder

Salt to taste

2 tbsp oil

1 tsp Mustard seeds

1 tsp seeds

Method :

1-Wash clean and wipe the leaves and cut the thick veins of it. Keep aside.

2-Then take besan in a vessel and mix in it the jawar flour.

3-Now add in it, crushed green chillies or the red chilly powder and turmeric powder.

4-Add hing, jaggery, tamarind, coriander leaves and salt to it.

5-Put in it, little water just enough to make a fine paste (not too thin nor very thick-just as made for bhajiyas/ bhonda/ pakodas) and mix well.

6-Now apply this paste on the back side of the leaf. Then place another leaf over it and apply the paste over it. Like this you can put 3-4 layers of leaves.

7-Then make a roll of it beginning too roll from the base of the leaf. Make more rolls like this of 3-4 leaves in each.

8-Now put it in a cooker for 15 minutes (without the pressure) or give equal amount of steam in another vessel to cook it.

9-Then remove the rolls and cut into small pieces.

10-Now heat oil in a deep pan and season it with mustard seeds and seeds.

11-Add to it the cut rolls and fry them properly on a slow flame till reddish in colour.

Serve hot with kadhi.