Poppetjes Recipe - Sweet Puffy Wheat Dumpling Recipe

Poppetjes Recipe is a very popular sweet dish prepared in the Parsi Cuisine. Made from a blend of wheat and rava it is fermented with toddy. Serve as a tea time snack along with a cup of tea.

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Poppetjes Recipe - Sweet Puffy Wheat Dumpling Recipe
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Poppetjes Recipe -  Sweet Puffy Wheat Dumpling Recipe is a very popular sweet dish prepared in the Parsi Cuisine. There are small shallow fried dumpling made from a blend of  wheat and rava batter which is fermented with toddy. This helps in raising the dumpling. It is then dipped sweet sugary syrup to give a hint of sweetness to the dish.

It is traditionally made in a vessel called the " popatjee no paenno" which is very famous among the Parsis. 

Serve the Poppetjes Recipe - Sweet Puffy Wheat Dumpling Recipe for a tea time snack along with Masala Chai Recipe - Indian Spiced Tea

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Cuisine: Parsi Recipes
Course: Snack
Diet: Vegetarian
Equipments Used: Kuzhi Paniyaram Pan
Prep in

60 M

Cooks in

30 M

Total in

90 M

Makes:

18 Servings

Ingredients

  • 1 cup Whole Wheat Flour
  • 1 cup Sooji (Semolina/ Rava)
  • 1 cup Coconut milk , or toddy
  • 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
  • 4-5 Sultana Raisins
  • 4-5 Whole Almonds (Badam) , powdered
  • 2 Cardamom (Elaichi) Pods/Seeds , skin removed and pound
  • 1 teaspoon Nutmeg powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon Cinnamon Powder (Dalchini)
  • For sugar syrup
  • 1/2 cup Sugar
  • 1/2 cup Water
  • pinch Salt
  • Oil

How to make Poppetjes Recipe - Sweet Puffy Wheat Dumpling Recipe

  1. To begin making the Poppetjes Recipe -  Sweet Puffy Wheat Dumpling Recipe mix the dry ingredients such as the wheat flour and the rava with toddy. Mix the ingredients to a smooth, medium thickness, porridge consistency. Set it aside to ferment for about 1 hour.

  2. Once it is fermented mix the raisins, powdered almond, nutmeg and cinnamon and a pinch of salt. Mix thoroughly. You can add a little water if the batter has become thick. 

  3. Heat the paniyaram pan with little oil in each hollow holes. Once it is heated, add a tablespoon of the batter in each cavity. Cook for about 3 minutes on each side. 

  4. Meanwhile, heat a saucepan with sugar and water, add a cardamom for extra flavor in the syrup, let it thicken.

  5. Once the poppetjes are cooked dip them in the hot sugar syrup for 10 seconds and take them out.

  6. Serve the Poppetjes Recipe - Sweet Puffy Wheat Dumpling Recipe for a tea time snack along with Masala Chai Recipe - Indian Spiced Tea