Zebre Recipe

Ingredients:
Rice - 1 1/4 cups
Cream or Butter - 1 1/2 tbsp
Milk - 1/2 cup
Jaggery - 50 gms, ground
Water as required
Oil or clarified Butter for frying

Method:
1. Clean the rice and soak it in cold water for about an hour.
2. Drain and grind to a coarse paste.
3. Add the cream or butter, milk and molasses and mix thoroughly.
4. Gradually, add water to the rice mixture to get a thin consistency.
5. Put aside for 15 to 20 minutes.
6. Heat the oil/clarified butter in a flat bottomed pan.
7. Place a medium sized steel bowl upside down in the middle of the oil.
8. When the oil is smoking hot, take one ladleful of the batter and pour it slowly all-round the bowl to make a ring.
9. Alternatively, you can use a coconut shell with a hole to pour the batter.
10. Cook till the ring becomes brown in colour.
11. Then turn and cook the other side too.
12. The oil must be very hot and the ring should be turned quickly and removed from the oil as soon as it is done.
13. Make similar rings and cook till all the batter used up.
14. Serve hot or cold.