Gujarati Meetha Pudla Recipe With Caramelized Bananas

Give this lip smacking Meetha Pudla a try for breakfast or make them as mini pudlas like we have done and top with with caramelized bananas, coconut and roasted cashew nuts to make a delicious dessert for your parties this festival season.

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Gujarati Meetha Pudla Recipe is a delicious pancake, made Gujarati style using whole wheat flour and jaggery as a sweetener. It makes a delicious breakfast dish which you can serve along with some bananas and chai or you can even make it into a dessert, by caramelizing the bananas with jaggery and topping it over the meetha pudla.

It makes a healthy dessert for festivals like Diwali and the like.

Serve Gujarati Meetha Pudla Recipe as a delicious sweet for parties or even festivals like diwali and dussehra. 

Here are more Gujarati recipes to try

  1. Whole Stuffed Mango Pickle Recipe
  2. Amrakhand Recipe
  3. Steamed Methi Palak Muthias
  4. Gujarati Badshahi Pulao Recipe

Course: Dessert
Diet: Vegetarian
Equipments Used: Cast Iron Tawa/ Flat Skillet
Prep in

10 M

Cooks in

30 M

Total in

40 M

Makes:

10 mini pudlas

Ingredients

  • 1/2 Cup Jaggery , grated
  • 1/3 cup Water
  • 1 cup Whole Wheat Flour
  • Nutralite Classic Spread , as required
  • for the Caramelized Bananas
  • Nutralite Classic Spread , as required
  • 1 Ripe Bananas , sliced into rounds (large banana)
  • 2 tablespoons Jaggery , powdered
  • 1 teaspoon Cardamom Powder (Elaichi)
  • 1/2 cup Fresh coconut
  • 1/4 cup Cashew nuts

How to make Gujarati Meetha Pudla Recipe With Caramelized Bananas

  1. To prepare Gujarati Meetha Pudla Recipe, in a mixing bowl, soak jaggery in water for few minutes to be dissolved.

  2. Add whole wheat flour into jaggery water and blend it using blender or you can use your fingers to mix the jaggery well into the batter. Pudla Batter should not be thin, but instead of a thick spreading consistency.

  3. Heat a flat skillet and melt the Nutralite Classic on the pan over medium heat. Spoon the pudla batter and make mini pancakes with the pudla batter. 

  4. Allow the meetha pudla to look on medium heat and you will notice the top of the pudla getting cooked.  Once the top is cooked, flip over and cook on the other side until golden brown.

  5. To make the stuffing, heat a skillet and met the Nutralite classic and jaggery. Once melted, add the bananas and the cardamom powder. Gently caramelize the bananas in the jaggery until it gets well coated and sticky.

  6. Once done, turn off the heat.

  7. In another small pan, melt a little Nutralite Classic again, add the cashew nuts and roast on medium heat until light browned and crisp.

  8. Place these mini meetha pudla on a serving platter, spoon the caramelized bananas with jaggery, sprinkle some coconut and top it with roasted cashew nuts and serve the Meetha Pudla as a sweet for parties and festivals.