Ragi Chocolate Pancakes

Ingredients:

1. Wheat flour -  3/4 cup
2. Ragi flour - 1/4 cup
3. Cocoa powder -  2 tablespoon
4. Baking powder - 1 teaspoon 
5. Baking soda - 1/2 teaspoon
6. Sugar - 2 teaspoon
7. Vanilla essence - 1 teaspoon
8. Milk - 1 cup
9. Yogurt - 5 tablespoon
10. Salt - a pinch
11. Butter - for making pancakes - around 2 tablespoon

Method:

1. Sieve the dry ingredients - wheat flour, ragi flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder, sugar and salt.
2. In a large mixing bowl, mix together milk, yogurt and vanilla essence.
3. Add the dry ingredients in batches and mix well. 
4. Heat a skillet, add 1/2 teaspoon butter and spread a ladle of pancake batter. Cook on medium flame on both sides.
5. Cook the rest of the batter in a similar way.
6. Drizzle honey/maple syrup and garnish with fresh fruits.

I made this recipe as part of the "Shh Cooking Secretly" event. This is an event started by Priya of Priya's Versatile Recipe and now being taken forward by Mayuri of Mayuri's Jikoni.  At the beginning of the month a theme is chosen by one of the participants and all the participants are grouped in pairs. The participants will exchange 2 secret ingredients with their partners who are suppose to prepare a dish that matches the theme of that month. This month's theme is pancakes and it was chosen by Archana Gunjikar Potdar of "The Mad Scientist's Kitchen". My partner for this month is Poonam Bachhav and she shared cocoa powder and ragi as my secret ingredients and I shared her potatoes and green chillies as her ingredients. She made Potato Pancakes which is vegan and gluten-free and very easy to make. Do visit her blog "Annapurna" to find the complete recipe.

Koat Pitha - Mizoram cuisine

Koat Pitha is a sweet snack from Mizoram. These fritters are made using rice flour, jaggery and banana.

For the month of March, the theme for "Shhhhh Cooking Secretly" event is a cuisine from Mizoram.
Mizoram is one of the North Eastern States of India. The name is derived from "Mizo", the name of the native inhabitants, and "Ram", means land, and thus Mizoram means "The land of the Mizos".

For the event, I am paired with Pavani Gunikuntla who gave me rice flour and banana as my secret ingredients. I gave her green chilies and ginger. She blogs at "Pavanis Kitchen". Do check out her blog for a wide collection of recipes.

Recipe source: betterbutter

Ingredients:

1. Rice flour - 1 cup
2. Jaggery - 1/2 cup
3. Banana - 1 (I used Chiquita/robusta banana)
4. Water - 1/4 cup
5. Salt - a pinch
6. Oil - for deep frying

Method:

1. Melt jaggery in 1/4 cup water and sieve to remove any impurities. Allow it to cool down.
2. Mash the banana with a fork into a smooth paste.
3. Add in rice flour, jaggery syrup and a pinch of salt to the mashed banana. Mix well and make a thick batter.
4. Heat oil in a pan and drop in a tablespoon of batter in hot oil. Fry on medium flame until the pitha turns golden brown in color.
5. Drain the excess oil on a paper towel and serve.