Patra

Recipe:

Recipe: Patra
Courtesy: Hatanoo.com

Description

Patra is Also known as Pattarvelia.

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Ingredients

• Onion 200 g
• Green Chili Pepper 10 g
• Curry Leaves 10 Pcs.
• Lemon 0.5 Pcs.
• Ginger 1 tsp.
• Gram (Besan) flour 1.5 Cup
• Buttermilk 0.5 Cup
• Taro (Colocassia) leaf 6 Nos.
• Sugar 1 tsp.
• Salt 1 tbsp.
• Cooking oil 2 tbsp.
• Mustard seed (small) 1 tbsp.
• Sesame seeds 2 tbsp.
• Asafoetida 0.25 tsp.
• Copra 1 tbsp.
• Coriander few leaves

Instructions

1. Prep. (00:01:00)
   Make a paste by mixing Onion, chili, curry leaves (only 5), lime juice, ginger, sugar & garam masala together in a grinder.
2. Prep. (00:01:00)
   Mix the paste with gram flour (besan), salt, buttermilk in a bowl to make it a slime like paste to be applied on taro leaves
3. Prep. (00:05:00)
   Wash the taro leaves and dry them by a cloth then remove the thick veins of taro leaves with a sharp knife so that they can be rolled easily.
4. Prep. (00:05:00)
   Apply the prepared paste with your fingers on each leaf on the side the veins were removed. Prepare a roll of the leaf by starting it rolling tightly from the opposite side of the tip. Do this for all the remaining leaves.
5. Cook (00:25:00)
   Steam all the leaf rolls till the mixture of gram flour (besan) becomes firm.
6. Prep. (00:02:00)
   When cool cut the rolls into 12 mm thick slices and keep them aside.
7. Cook (00:02:00)
   Heat the oil in a pan and add mustard seeds. When the seeds crackle add asafoetida, sesame seeds and saute them on medium flame stirring it continuously adding curry leaves lastly.
8. Prep. (00:02:00)
   Add the roll slices gently into the pan and saute on a medium flame.
9. Prep. (00:00:00)
   Serve hot. You can garnish with shredded coconut and coriander leaves.

Prep. Time:00:16:00
Cook Time:00:27:00
Total Time:00:43:00