Cuisine: Bihar
Category: Dessert
Prep: 60 min
Cook: 15 min
Serves: 6
Difficulty: Easy
🌿 Vegetarian
Thick, soft sweet wheat pancakes fried in oil or ghee and soaked in jaggery syrup — the Holi and Chhath festival sweet of Bihar.
Ingredients
- 1 cup whole wheat flour (atta)
- 1/4 cup fine semolina (sooji)
- 3/4 cup milk
- 1/4 cup jaggery — dissolved in 3 tbsp warm water
- 1 ripe banana — mashed
- 1/4 tsp fennel seeds — coarsely crushed
- 1/4 tsp cardamom powder
- A pinch of baking soda
- Oil or ghee for deep frying
Method
- Combine atta, semolina, milk, dissolved jaggery water, mashed banana, fennel seeds, cardamom and baking soda.
- Whisk into a smooth, thick batter — thicker than dosa batter.
- The banana provides moisture and binding.
- Rest the batter 30 to 45 minutes until slightly fermented and bubbly.
- Heat oil or ghee for deep frying on medium.
- Drop heaped tbsp portions of batter into the oil, pressing slightly into a thick disc shape.
- Fry on medium for 3 to 4 minutes per side until deep golden brown.
- Drain on paper towels.
- Pua is best eaten warm. Optionally drizzle with extra jaggery syrup before serving.