Simple and sweet Chattipathiri for Iftar dessert

Chattipathiri is a popular Malabar Ifthar dish. It is a layered crepe filled with sweet or savoury filling. Let’s go with sweet today.

Sweet Chattipathiri

Serve your family this sweet dessert dish this Iftar.

INGREDIENTS

For the Pathiri

• Flour-1 cup
• Ghee-1tsp
• Salt-to taste
• Water-enough to knead

For the filling

• Kerala ripe banana-2large
• Eggs-2nos
• Coconut-2tbsp
• Cashew nut-1/4 cup
• Riaisns-1/4 cup
• White cuscus/ Poppy seeds-2tbsp
• Sugar-4tbsp
• Ghee-2tbsp

PREPERATION

For the Pathiri

• Add flour, salt and oil in a bowl.
• Add water slowly and knead in to a smooth dough.
• Divide the dough in to 7 equal bowls.
• Roll each balls to extra thin circles of same size.
• Heat a tawa and cook each of these pathiri for just two seconds on one side only.

For the Filling

• Heat ghee in a pan add cashew nuts. saute for a minute and as raisins.
• Roast until golden in color and takeout in to a plate.
• In the remaining ghee add chopped bananas and 1tbsp of sugar.
• Saute until golden brown in color.keep aside.
• In the same pan stir fry eggs by adding 1tbsp of sugar.
• Move in to one side of the pan and add coconut with one tablespoon of sugar.
• Saute until the coconut absorbs all the water contents in it.
• Mix it with eggs for a minute and keep aside.
• Dry roast cuscus for a minute in low flame.
• Now all the fillings ingredients are ready to assemble

ASSEMBLE

• Divide the banana and stir fried eggs mix into 6 parts. Divide the fried nuts, raisins and poppy seeds into 7 parts.
• Beat eggs with milk, cardamom powder and sugar in a wide plate.
• Grease a non-stick pan with ghee.
• Take a pathiri and dip it in the egg mixture and put it in the pan.
• Spread a part of filling on top of it (banana, egg-coconut stir-fry, cashew and raisins and poppy seeds).
• Now cover it with another pathiri dip in egg batter.
• Above that spread another part of filling and continue the process for 6 layers.
• Lastly, put the top layer of pathiri and garnish it with cashew, raisins and poppy seeds.
• Pour the remaining batter on top of it.
• Cook covered it on low flame for about 20-25 minutes.
• Carefully flip into the other side and cook for another two to three minutes.
• Cut into pieces and serve warm.