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Pesrate or a s commonly known as pesarattu in Andhra households is a pancake recipe prepared from a rice and lentil batter. Enjoy hot and crispy pesrate with coconut chutney or sambhar
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Pesrate recipe - How to make Pesrate
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- For the batter
- Soak the rice and par boiled rice together.
- Soak all the dals together.
- Soak the rice and dals overnight.
- Grind the rice with little water.(the batter should be fine with any kani)
- Grind the dals coarsely with litle water.
- Now mix the rice and dal.
- Cover and leave to ferment for about 7-8 hours.
- For the masala
- Grind the kashmiri red chillies and green chillies to a paste with 1 tbsp water.
- Mix together in the batter chillie paste, finely chopped corriander, hing, curry leaves and salt.
- Mix these masalas well in the batter and see to it that no lumps are formed.
- For the pesrate
- Heat a non stick tava.
- Spread a little batter as we do for a uttapa.(thick)
- Spread a little oil and cook on both the sides.
- Serve hot with powder chutney.
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