A traditional Gujarati snack made with rice flour, urad flour, ginger and chillies.
What is Panki?
Panki is a traditional Gujarati snack made with rice flour, urad flour, ginger and green chillies. It is a thin savory pancake kind of snack that is cooked between plantain leaves or banana leaves.
Panki can be made with a variety of flours and rice flour panki is a popular one.
Serving suggestions for rice panki?
It can be served as a snack or breakfast along with mint coriander chutney.
Step by step preparation:
- Combine the rice flour, urad dal flour, salt, crushed cumin and melted ghee in a bowl.
- Add water little by little and make a smooth batter.
- Add ginger chilli paste and combine well.
- Let it sit for 30 minutes.
- Grease the plantain leaves with some oil or ghee.
- Heat a tawa or pan and place the greased leaf on it.
- Spread 2 tablespoons of the batter on the greased leaf.
- Cover the batter with another leaf with greased side facing down.
- Press it gently to spread the batter evenly to make a thin layer.
- Flip and cook both sides until light brown spots appear on the banana leaves.
- Once it is cooked completely, remove it from the pan and serve it immediately with chutney.
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How to make Gujarati Rice Panki recipe below:
Panki Recipe
A gujarati breakfast or snack recipe made with rice flour, ginger and chiillies
Ingredients
- ¾ cup Rice Flour
- 2 tbsp Urad Dal Flour
- 1 tsp Crushed Cumin Seeds
- 2 tsp Yogurt
- 2 tsp Melted Ghee
- ¾ tsp Ginger Green Chilli Paste
- Salt to taste
- Oil for greasing
- Plantain Leaves
- Water little less than a cup
Instructions
- Combine the rice flour, urad dal flour, salt, crushed cumin and melted ghee in a bowl.
- Add water little by little and make a smooth batter.
- Add ginger chilli paste and combine well.
- Keep it aside for 30 minutes.
- Grease the banana leaves with oil and set aside.
- Place a banana leaf on a hot pan / tawa.
- Put 1 – 2 tablespoons of batter on the greased banana leaf.
- Cover it with another greased banana leaf.
- Press it gently to spread the batter evenly to make a thin layer.
- Cook on both sides until light brown spots appear on the banana leaves.
- Serve immediately with green chutney/mint coriander chutney.
Nutrition
Calories: 79kcalCarbohydrates: 14gProtein: 2gFat: 2gSaturated Fat: 1gCholesterol: 3mgSodium: 2mgPotassium: 16mgFiber: 1gSugar: 1gVitamin C: 1mgCalcium: 8mgIron: 1mg
Nutrition values are estimates only.
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pretty easy to prepare. liked all the pics.
Very exotic and delicious looking panki recipe.
Deepa
this is completely new recipe for me and looks very yumm.
This is a new recipe. Looks amazing.
wow tats a very new recipe to me
Seems simple, healthy and delicious, must try. Bookmarked!
This is such a new recipe to me… thank you for introducing !
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Sandhya
drooling !!!
Very new and interesting dish, going to surely try this..
I have a panki recipe in my Tarla Dalal's cookbook but never thought of trying it out….But feeling very inspired after looking at your version!!