Cheese Paniyaram Recipe

Paniyaram meaning snack or tiffin in Tamil dialect. Traditionally this dish is prepared with a plain rice fermented batter. According to culture and current trends there are many paniyaram recipes with meat fillings to chocolate. This cheese paniyarams are perfect for a sunday breakfast or weekday tiffin. Growing up my mom or granny would always prepare these paniyarams as after school snack.

Panniyaram Recipe Video in English

Cheese Panniyaram Ingredients:

500 ML Idly or Dosa Batter

1/4 Cup Cheese Cut into Tiny Cubes

1/4 Tsp Each Cumin and Mustard 

1/4 Tsp Asafoetida

6 Cashews Finely Chopped

2 Green Chillies Finely Chopped

2 Sprigs Curry Leaves Finely Chopped

2 Sprigs Coriander Finely Chopped

1/2 Cup Onions Finely Chopped

1/2 Tsp Salt

Oil and Ghee as required...

Method:

Heat a wok on medium flame with 2 tsp ghee and 1 tsp oil.

Once the oil and ghee has heated, add mustard seeds and cumin seeds allow to sputter.

Add asafetida followed by curry leaves, finely chopped chilies and onion, fry the onions for a minute.

Add 1/2 tsp salt and cashews fry the onions until golden and remove from flame. Allow the onions to cool down completely. 

Add the fried onion to the batter and mix well, if need add salt to the batter and mix well.

Heat a paniyaram pan on medium flame. Add ghee and oil allow to heat well.

Ladle the batter into the paniyaram pan half way and place the cheese in the middle.

Ladle more batter over the cheese to cover and seal it.

Gently flip and fry the paniyarams for a minute on each side and flip and fry until the paniyarams turn golden in color.

Drain the paniyarams on Kitchen towel and serve hot with chutney...Enjoy!