Patishapta - Coconut and jaggery filled crepe for your sweet tooth

 Patishapta is a traditional Bengali dessert, generally prepared during the harvest festival, on the auspicious day of Makar Sankranti or Poush Parbon. It is believed that on this particular day new rice is harvested and with this new rice special sweets are prepared combined with fresh date palm jaggery, which is another winter special in Bengal. Patishapta is like a pancake stuffed with either a mixture of coconut and jaggery or khoya.

It can be prepared on several occasions, for me, I don’t need any occasion, I can prepare it anytime, as breakfast, as evening snacks or even for our after-dinner sweet cravings 😊

So, let’s get started, try out this mouth-watering recipe and enjoy the fresh and moist bites of the sweet crepes.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup grated coconut (you can use desiccated coconut powder also)
• 1 cup refined flour
• 1/2 cup suji or semolina
• 1/4 cup rice flour
• 1 cup of sugar
• 1 cup milk
• 2 tbsp jaggery (you can increase the quantity of jaggery and reduce the sugar as per your taste)
• Oil (as needed for frying)
• 2 tsp green cardamom powder
• Water (as needed for preparing the batter)
• 1/2 cup khoya kheer (optional)

Method:

For preparing the stuffing;

• Head a kadhai and mix the grated coconut with jaggery and sugar, keeping the flame low to medium
• Mix well till the sugar and jaggery melts
• Then add milk and the cardamom (elaichi) powder. Keep stirring the mix until it has become sticky and leaves the side of the pan. It will take around 10 to 15 minutes
• Keep aside and let it cool, stuffing is ready

For preparing the batter;

• In a bowl mix the rice flour, maida, suji with a pinch of salt and water
• Mix carefully till you get a smooth batter without lumps
• Heat a non-stick frying pan. Sprinkle some oil on it and spread out a ladle full of batter in wide spirals to make a full circle.
• Allow the mix to fry nicely from the bottom
• Place the freshly prepared coconut stuffing in one side and roll it up
• Repeat the process till all your batter and stuffing is used up

You can serve it hot or cold, also you can spread some rabri or honey top. Garnish it with chopped dry fruits.

So try it out and let me know how you liked it.

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