Panki Recipe – Gujarati Rice Panki Recipe

A traditional Gujarati snack made with rice flour, urad flour, ginger and chillies.

What is Panki?

Panki is a traditional Gujarati snack made with rice flour, urad flour, ginger and green chillies. It is a thin savory pancake kind of snack that is cooked between plantain leaves or banana leaves.

Panki can be made with a variety of flours and rice flour panki is a popular one.

Serving suggestions for rice panki?

It can be served as a snack or breakfast along with mint coriander chutney.

Step by step preparation:

• Combine the rice flour, urad dal flour, salt, crushed cumin and melted ghee in a bowl.
• Add water little by little and make a smooth batter.

• Add ginger chilli paste and combine well.
• Let it sit for 30 minutes.

• Grease the plantain leaves with some oil or ghee.
• Heat a tawa or pan and place the greased leaf on it.
• Spread 2 tablespoons of the batter on the greased leaf.

• Cover the batter with another leaf with greased side facing down.

• Press it gently to spread the batter evenly to make a thin layer.

• Flip and cook both sides until light brown spots appear on the banana leaves.

• Once it is cooked completely, remove it from the pan and serve it immediately with chutney.

Few more Gujarati recipes you will love:

• Khatti Meethi Dal
• Methi Na Gota
• Bhinda Sambhariya
• Gathiya
• Farsi Poori
• Mohanthal
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How to make Gujarati Rice Panki recipe below:

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Panki Recipe

A gujarati breakfast or snack recipe made with rice flour, ginger and chiillies

Prep Time5 mins

Cook Time20 mins

Total Time25 mins

Course: Breakfast, Snack

Cuisine: Gujarati, Indian

Keyword: gujarati recipes, Indian breakfast

Servings: 8 pankis

Calories: 79kcal

Ingredients

• 3/4 cup Rice Flour
• 2 tbsp Urad Dal Flour
• 1 tsp Crushed Cumin Seeds
• 2 tsp Yogurt
• 2 tsp Melted Ghee
• 3/4 tsp Ginger Green Chilli Paste
• Salt to taste
• Oil for greasing
• Plantain Leaves
• Water little less than a cup

Instructions

• Combine the rice flour, urad dal flour, salt, crushed cumin and melted ghee in a bowl.
• Add water little by little and make a smooth batter.
• Add ginger chilli paste and combine well.
• Keep it aside for 30 minutes.
• Grease the banana leaves with oil and set aside.
• Place a banana leaf on a hot pan / tawa.
• Put 1 – 2 tablespoons of batter on the greased banana leaf.
• Cover it with another greased banana leaf.
• Press it gently to spread the batter evenly to make a thin layer.
• Cook on both sides until light brown spots appear on the banana leaves.
• Serve immediately with green chutney/mint coriander chutney.

Nutrition

Calories: 79kcal | Carbohydrates: 14g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 2g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 3mg | Sodium: 2mg | Potassium: 16mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 1g | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 8mg | Iron: 1mg