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Recipe: Suji-Besan Pudla Pancakes

By ZELDA PANDE
March 31, 2022 13:24 IST

Suji-Besan Pudlas, a tasty breakfast or tea-time savoury pancake, is a cross between a dosa and a chila and stuffed with greens. Zelda Pande adapted it from a traditional Gujarati recipe. It uses seasonal green garlic, but a little extra crushed garlic will do just fine.

Suji-Besan Pudla Pancakes

Servings: 4-5

Ingredients

For serving

Method

Note: Green garlic is seasonal and mainly available in winter and can be substituted for a few pods of additional garlic. You can grow green garlic on your windowsill or on your balcony at home, year-round, in small pots and it is a handy addition to dal, raita or parathas.

For Jain pudlas, use only the green of the spring onions and omit the bulbs. Also omit the garlic and ginger and replace with a tsp saunth or ginger powder (which is part of the Jain diet).

For vegan pudlas, pan fry in oil and a little cashew butter (available online).

Zelda Pande's coconut chutney recipe: Grind in a mixer/blender ½ a fresh coconut with ½-inch piece ginger, chunks of 1 medium red onion, pinch salt, 4-5 pods garlic, 100 gm dahi or yoghurt, small handful cilantro, 1-2 green chillies and a tiny bit of filtered/boiled/mineral water.
Baghar or do a tadka or temper with ½ tsp rai or mustard seeds, pinch of hing or asafoetida and 4-5 curry leaves heated till the rai pops in ½ tbsp oil in a small frying pan and pour over chutney.
Chill the ready chutney before serving and freeze what's leftover for another day.

ZELDA PANDE

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