Masala Kuzhi paniyaram with leftover idli dosa batter and vegetables added to make it colourful and healthy. Spice powders added for making it extra delicious.
I love kuzhi paniyarams a lot😍. At my mom’s place, sweet paniyaram and kara paniyaram will be in the regular menu. We don’t eat it with any side dish, we have it as such. At my in-laws place, kuzhipaniyaram is not considered as breakfast or dinner, just they have it for snack. And very rarely. So same with Vj, he can take it as snack but not as a meal. So I don’t make that often, otherwise I end up in overeating. I love my mom’s paniyarams a lot and miss it.
At times we make kuzhi paniyaram with leftover idli dosa batter too. It’s often known as pulicha mavu paniyaram. But these days since we have refrigerator, its not pulicha maavu paniyaram, its just left over batter paniyaram. When we grind idli dosa batter, unlike our childhood days where mom used to grind and use it within a day,we all grind for a week and reserve the batter in fridge for quick fix of breakfast and dinner.


So each day we can make idli, so we make idli for two times the rest will be made as plain dosa and onion uthappam mostly which are aj and Vj’s favorite. I make uthappam in kadai at times, podi dosai and paniyaram with leftover idli dosa batter. I make just by adding finely chopped onion, curry leaves, ginger, green chilli.
I have already clicked that and kept. Its been 2 years😜, but somehow did not posted. I saw this vegetable kuzhi paniyaram while I was browsing twitter. Loved the idea of adding vegetables and thought will make it for breakfast. I added the vegetables that would be suitable for this, but its purely the choice of your favorites or availability. Check out notes section for more tips.

Step by step pictures

1. Finely chop vegetables – I used ½ of a small carrot, 2 beans, ¼ of a capsicum. Keep all the ingredients ready and temper in a kadai with mustard, urad dal, curry leaves and asafoetida.



2. Add the vegetables. Sprinkle required salt and stir fry for 2 mins in medium or low flame.



3. Mix the vegetables with batter and add turmeric, red chilli powder. Mix well.



4. Heat paniyaram pan, grease with few drops of oil and pour the batter, in each shallow. Cook covered for 1 minute in medium flame. Flip and cook until golden on both sides.

Serve hot, with chutney or sambar. I had with sambar, but sometimes I have it as such or with sugar too.