Patishapta

This is one of the sweet delicacies of Bengali cuisine. You can check up the info about this sweet in the following sites.
1. A Homemaker's Diary
2. Bong Mom's Cookbook

I'm not in the mood to write an intro. Anyways, this is my H's colleague's wife's recipe. A lot of tips came from her typings. I made some tweaks for our finicky taste buds.

Ingredients:
Maida/APF - 1/2 cup
Rice flour - 1/3 cup
Suji -1/3 cup
Sugar - 1 tbsp.
Green cardamom powder - 2 pinches
Milk

For coconut filling:
Sweetened condensed milk
Grated coconut
Cardamom powder- 2 pinches
Nuts - chopped
Raisins - few

For Garnishing (and to enhance more taste):
Condensed milk and chopped nuts

Method:
For crêpes:
In a bowl mix maida, suji, rice flour and green cardamom powder. Pour milk to turn the mixture into a dosa batter without any lumps. Cover and keep aside for 30 minutes.
Meanwhile mix equal quantity of condensed milk and coconut in a pan.
Stir till it reaches a soft moist mass consistency. In between, add the nuts, raisins and cardamom powder. Keep aside.
In the batter, add the sugar and mix well.
In a tawa, spread a small ladleful of batter and drizzle ghee on the sides. When they turn golden colour in the base (if you want you can flip and cook for 30 seconds on other side), place the coconut stuffing in the centre in lengthwise. Fold on both sides with one side overlapping the other. Place them on the plate and pour or drizzle condensed milk with nuts.
Continue with remaining batter.
Enjoy hot or cold.

Note:
For crêpes:
Spread the batter as thin as possible.
After preparing a crêpe, sprinkle little water to reduce the heat of the tawa. Stay safe. Oil or ghee on a heating tawa will give bursts if there is moisture. Now you can spread the batter easily. Continue this process with each crêpe.

For filling:
Variations:
For khoya filling - add some milk and sugar to the khoya and simmer it on heat till it achieves a thick consistency.
For coconut filling - simmer grated coconut with sugar on heat and keep mixing it till it comes to a sticky consistency.

Sent off to "Flavours of Bengal" hosted by Priya and started by Nayna.

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