Breakfast · Nashto
Chantaro – Mitho
Sweet red rice flour pancake
A rustic, lightly sweet (mitho) pancake made from a thick, pourable batter of red rice flour plus a little whole wheat flour, cooked on a tawa in ghee and dusted with icing sugar the moment it comes off the heat. Nutty from the red rice; a quick morning meal or a light sweet at family gatherings.
Ingredients
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Cups are shown in grams or ml; spoons stay as spoons. Panja Khada’s own weights are used where they give them (1 cup of flour is 150 g, rice or dal 200 g, curd 225 g, milk or water 240 ml), and standard kitchen weights otherwise.
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Method
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Make the batter. In a toap (bowl), combine the red rice flour, whole wheat flour and ½ tbsp ghee. Add water gradually until the batter is thick but still pourable.
Cook. Heat a tawa (griddle) on a medium flame. Pour one kevai (ladleful) of batter and spread it evenly. Drizzle ghee around the edges so it does not stick, and cook until both sides are golden.
Finish. Lift the pancake off the tawa and sprinkle icing sugar over it straight away.
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Tips and variations
Tip: serve immediately so the icing sugar melts slightly into the warm pancake.
Gur Jo Chantaro (Jaggery Chantaro)
Top with grated jaggery or melted jaggery syrup instead of icing sugar.
Dry Fruit Chantaro
Add chopped almonds, pistachios or cashews along with the icing sugar.
Elaichi Chantaro
Add a pinch of cardamom powder to the batter.
Saffron Chantaro
Mix saffron strands, soaked in warm water or milk, into the batter.
Mitho Chantaro with Honey
Serve warm with honey instead of icing sugar.
Serve with
Eaten hot and plain, with no accompaniment. A quick breakfast or light sweet for family gatherings.
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Nutrition
EstimatedPer pancake
370 kcal
- Protein
- 6 g
- Carbohydrate
- 69 g
- Fat
- 8 g
The recipe makes 4–6 pancakes.
Whole recipe
1,840 kcal
- Protein
- 32 g
- Carbohydrate
- 345 g
- Fat
- 39 g
Everything in the ingredients list.
These are estimates, worked out from the amounts in the recipe and typical values for each ingredient. Portion sizes and the exact amount of oil, ghee or sugar can change them a lot. How we estimate
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Storage
Best eaten fresh; the batter can be refrigerated for a few hours.
Savoury twin
Chantaro – Tikho, made from the same red rice flour batter.
About this dishDid you know?
Did you know?
Red rice flour is common in Bhatia cooking and brings a nutty taste and extra nutrition.
Where this recipe comes from
Recipe from Panja Khada by Bharat and Deepa Chachara.
See the original recipe and photos