Kara Paniyaram with adai batter

Mostly when we grind for adai batter, there will be some leftover batter. My mother-in-law always prepares kunukku with the left over adai batter. She just deep fries small portions of the batter in oil, like how we do for vada or bonda. It will be tasty with the sourness and spiciness of the batter. This time I wanted to prepare something by avoiding deep frying and hence tried this paniyaram recipe with the left over batter. I came across this recipe from here. Since we are making it as paniyarams, less oil will be used. We can prepare it as an evening snack or even for breakfast by pairing up with sweet paniyaram(recipe link is given below).

Kara Paniyaram Recipe

Serves  :  3 people

Ingredients

• Adai Batter  -  2 cups
• Onion  -  1 finely chopped(if not already available in the batter)
• Curry leaves  -  few(if not already available in the batter) 
• Oil -  for cooking

Method

1. Add oil in the paniyaram pan and pour a small portion of the batter in each hole and cook on both sides.
2. Serve hot with any chutney or simply with ketchup.

Notes

• While preparing adai batter, it is always advisable to add onions and curry leaves only to the portion which is used for preparing adais. The remaining batter can be made use of like this. In that case, add onions and curry leaves fresh.
• If required, you can also temper with mustard and urad dal and add it to the batter. Since i just wanted to finish up the left over batter, i have not done it.
• Always serve it hot, as once it cools down it becomes slightly hard in texture.

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