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Savoury Pancakes

Amma's notebook · Breakfast, snacks & starters, page 3

Thin, dosa-style pancakes of flour, milk and egg, flecked with coriander and green chilli.

Savoury Pancakes, in Amma's handwriting
Amma's original. Tap to open full size.

Method

  1. Mix the maida, milk and egg. Add kothmir, hari mirchi and salt.
  2. Mix to a smooth paste with no lumps, then add water to make a smooth, flowing batter.
  3. Pour on the tawa, swirl it round, put oil all round and make like thin dosas.

Serve with

Hot, with or without ketchup or chilli sauce.

Typed up from Amma's handwritten notebook. Her Hindi and Urdu words are kept as she wrote them.

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