Chettinad Karuppatti Paniyaram Recipe , Palm Jaggery Sweet Paniyaram

 

 

Karuppatti Paniyaram and Alangai is authentic dish done on 'Vinayagar Nombu' in chettinad. This is celebrated on 21st day from  'Thirukarthikai' when Sashti and Sathyam coincide together (Thithi and Nakshathiram). For this 21 days they will not eat non veg. On 21st day all nagarathar will celebrate vinayagar nombu festival as family/group. It is celebrated in their respective house and nagarthar's who are away from home will go to 'Nagarthar Madam' to celebrate with other Nagarthar's. Vinayagar Nombu is especially celebrated to take 'alangai' which is known as 'ezhai eduthal'. They prepare 5 types of dishes like vadai, vellai paniyaram, karuppatti paniyaram, pasipayaru poriyal, Alangai and will put ' kolam' in front of the pooja room and keep all these prepared dishes there and pray to Vinayagar. Then the elder person of the family will take the ezhai followed by younger persons and the last ezhai will also be taken by the elder person

They will take 21 thread from new cotton white cloth and make it as 'thiri' and count the family members and and cut 1 inch thiri for each member in the family.  Then they will place the remaining thiri in the Maada Villakku and light it. The elder person of the family will wear thalappa and dip each thiri in ghee and then place it in alangai and light it and they will take first. Then younger persons of the family will get the blessing from the elder person and eat it along with the flame and thiri. 21 Alangai, 21 Karuppatti Paniyaram is prepared for this occassion. 

 

 

Karupatti Paniyaram is a special recipe of chettinad, no functions will happen without this paniyaram it has special place in ‘vinayagar nombu’, ‘padaipu’, ’diwali’ and other special occasions. If you have  rice flour use it and skip step 1, below is the traditional method. You can even use Jaggery to do this for good golden yellow color paniyaram, traditionaly Palm Jaggery is used. After frying allow it to cool and store in air tight container for upto 3 days. 

here is a step by step guide on How to make Palm Jaggery Paniyaram Recipe

Finally i would like to add my other snack recipe collection for Diwali celebration with this post of Karupatti Paniyaram recipe,  Thenkuzhal recipe, Omapodi, Boondhi, Seepu Seedai, Seedai, Mixture, Adhirasam, Kai Murukku, Karupatti Paniyaram, Kandharappam, Chettinad Vellai Paniyaram, Chettinad Masala Seeyam, Raw rice flour preparation, Carrot Halwa without Ghee, Rasamalai,Sheera Halwa,

Karupatti Paniyaram | Sweet Paniyaram Recipe Recipe Cuisine: Chettinad |  Recipe Category: Starter/Snacks Prep Time:  10 minutes   |  Cook time: 30 minutes    | Yield: 21 + 21 PALM JAGGERY – 500 GRAMS CARDOMOM POWDER – ½ TSPN DRY GINGER POWDER - ½ TSPN (OPTIONAL) OIL – ¼ LT TO GRIND RAW RICE – 500 GRAMS

METHOD OF PREPARATION

1. Soak, dry and prepare rice flour. On how to prepare rice flour you can refer Rice flour Preparation

2. Take pan add 1 cup of water, add palm sugar to it and melt it and filter to remove the impurities

3. Take another pan add sugar syrup to it cook it, stir it continuously allow it to boil, while boiling add cardomom powder and dry ginger powder and continue stirring it. Once the palm jaggery sryup started cooking it will bubble outwards. When it reaches to the String stage you can see bubbles inwards.

4. Check the String consistency by taking it in fingers then switch off the flame and add the flour and mix it . (If you are unable check with your finger then you may take palm jaggery sryup in the ladle and drop it again to the pan while dropping you can see the strings)

5. Add the flour to syrup little by little and mix it to form like sticky maida dough then transfer it to a bowl and add 1 tspn ghee on it and rest it for 24 hours

6. After 24 hours take the dough and divide it. Take 1/4 portion of the dough for Alangai. 
First image after 24 hours and the second image is the dough for Alangai

Alangai Preparation 

1. Take gooseberry size of the dough and roll it and tap it flat with 1/4 inch thickness

2. Take a pan heat oil, see to that oil is not over heated add the alangai into it ( I have added 10 first time and the remaining second time for frying. you can add as per your convenience) and cook it till brown color in medium flame. Use long ladle to turn the alangai and take the cooked alangai using the flat ladle

Karuppatti Paniyaram Preparation

1. Take the remaining dough and add water and mix it without lumps. Consistency should be like a dosa batter you can refer below image.

Take pan heat oil, see to that oil is not over heated drop 1 flat big spoon of batter and cook in medium flame. 

2. Once the paniyaram start cooking it will float in oil with a flowery border then turn it to the other side

3. Cook it in golden brown color. To check whether it is cooked if you break the paniyaram it will be porous like the below image.  

4. You can deep fry one at a time. We use to prepare karuppatti paniyaram using Palm Jaggery .

5. If you need it in golden yellow color then follow the same measurement and use half jaggery and half palm jaggery. 

Finally i would like to add my other sweet recipe collection along with this recipe, Carrot Halwa, Rasamalai, Gulab Jamun, Mysorepak, Rava Kesari, Gasa gasa Payasam

Note:

• This karupatti paniyaram will be black in color, if you need it golden yellow color you can choose jaggery