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Homemade Coconut Treacle (Pani) Hoppers

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Popular food in Sri Lanka.

Ingredients

  • ½ pounds, ⅞ ounces, weight Rice Flour
  • ½ Tablespoons Yeast
  • 2 Tablespoons Sugar
  • 3 tablespoons, 1 teaspoon, 2-⅓ pinches Lukewarm Water
  • 1-½ cup Coconut Milk, Divided Use
  • 8 Tablespoons Coconut Treacle
  • 1 whole Egg, Beaten
  • 1 teaspoon Salt

Preparation

Sift the flour into a large bowl.

Mix yeast, sugar and water in a small bowl. Leave 10 minutes until frothy.

Add the yeast mixture and 3/4 cups of coconut milk to the flour. Mix well. Now knead by hand for 10 minutes. The batter should be thick. Cover the batter and allow to rise for 1 hour. After that, add the remaining milk coconut treacle and egg. Mix well. Add salt. The batter will be like pancake batter.

Now heat a round-bottomed pan or wok on medium heat. When hot, rub the pan thoroughly with an oiled cloth.

Now pour a ladleful of batter into the pan and turn the pan so that the batter sticks to the sides of the pan. Cover with a lid and cook over medium heat. After 2 to 3 minutes, the edges will have become golden and the center soft and spongy. Now fold it in half and press the edges together. You are looking for a crescent shape (which is standard for pani hoppers). I have done this in the photo above.

Carefully loosen the edges using a flat wooden spoon or butter knife.

Serve and enjoy.

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thinkingtasty on 3.23.2011

I found this recipe by chance.I do not generally give five stars to most recipes. I am an avid cook and very picky. It really is an amazing recipe.The flavor is incredible and it makes light thin cakes crispy on the outside and tender on the inside. This version calls for Rice flour and since I have had trouble eating wheat it was nice to find a recipe that was gluten-free. I have made it three times already. Once I used half brown rice flour and half white and it still turned out tasty as ever. I did reduce the rising time one because I simple did not have time to let it rise for an hour so I put it between the burners on the stove top and turned the burners on warm so that the radiating heat helped it rise faster. Rice flour really does not rise that much but it did change somewhat. I used a frying pan and simply rotated it to assure the batter spread more evenly. I followed the directions as best I could and although they did not turn out exactly like the picture I was very pleased with the result. They tasty especially good topped with fresh pineapple.

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