Patra
 
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The exact amount of Ingredients may vary depending on the thickness and age of Colocasia leaves. Young leaves need fewer spices
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Recipe type: Appetizer
Cuisine: Indian
Serves: 4
Ingredients
  • Fresh, preferably young Colocasia leaves - 10.
  • Salt
  • 2 tbsp + 4 tbsp healthy Oil as coconut oil
  • ½ cup besan (Bengal gram flour). Available in Indian grocery stores and Amazon.
  • ¼th cup yogurt (preferably sour). Vegans, replace with tamarind.
  • 1-inch fresh tamarind ball. (For vegans or those who wants to avoid dairy)
  • ¾th tsp pink Himalayan salt
  • ½ - ¾th tsp chili powder depending on your spice level
  • ½tsp - coriander powder. Don't worry if you don't have coriander powder. You can skip it. Adding it will add great flavor and kick.
  • 1 tbsp - sesame seeds.
  • Water
Instructions
  1. If using tamarind, soak tamarind in little water. Do not add too much water. Once tamarind is soft, mix well with fingers in water and squeeze juice.
  2. Wash colocasia leaves on both sides. If leaves are big, cut the thick stem in the middle.
  3. In a bowl, add 2 tbsp oil and all remaining ingredients. Mix well.
  4. Slowly pour water, while mixing to make the batter. The consistency of the batter should be dilute enough to be spreadable, and thick enough to not drain when you spread on colocasia leaves. I make a slightly thick batter. Taste the batter, add if any ingredients need to be added.
  5. Take the biggest leaf. Take some batter, spread over the leaf evenly. Lay next size leaf on top of it. Spread batter over this. Repeat the process, stack up to 5-8 leaves. If leaves are young you can add more. Make sure you stack so many so that you can roll all of them together.
  6. Now roll the bunch of leaves till the end. Carefully cut the leaves stack to rounds.
  7. Add oil to griddle and heat to medium-low. Add Patra rounds to griddle. Sprinkle sesame seeds. Cook each side around 5-8 minutes. Keep watching them as cooking time depends on your griddle type and heat.
  8. Turn and cook till both sides are cooked. You shouldn't see any raw batter. The batter becomes solid when cooked and changes color to brown. Remove onto a plate.
  9. Serve hot.
Recipe by Ujwala's Delicacies at https://www.ujwalasdelicacies.com/patra/