{"id":193,"date":"2005-12-04T01:52:50","date_gmt":"2005-12-04T06:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/?p=193"},"modified":"2008-04-06T16:45:24","modified_gmt":"2008-04-06T23:45:24","slug":"coocnut-grater-kuzhi-paniyaram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/archives\/2005\/12\/04\/coocnut-grater-kuzhi-paniyaram\/","title":{"rendered":"Coocnut Scraper &#038; Kuzhi Paniyaram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Swarna from Chennai, sent me via email, these two beautiful images of her kitchen gadgets for my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/archives\/2005\/11\/19\/indian-kitchen\/\">Indian Kitchen<\/a> series. <\/p>\n<p>She wrote to me&#8230;<br \/>\n<i>&#8220;Both of these given to me by my mother from Madras. The first one is a hand held coconut grater or scraper would be more apt and the second one is what we call &#8220;kuzhi paniyaram&#8221; vessel. Kuzhi means hole (literally) in tamil and paniyaram I suppose is the name of the dish. It can be made sweet or savoury. mostly we do the left over idli\/dosa batter, chop a few onions, green chillies do the tadka and  pour the batter into these moulds. The types of batter we can do is endless really, rava(sooji) combination, maida\/jaggery\/mashed banana- for a sweet paniyaram.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/mahanandi\/images\/kitchengargets\/coconutscraper1.jpg\"  class=\"noborder\" alt=\"Hand Held Coconut Scraper Used for grating the fresh coconut - Sent by  Swarna, reader of this blog,  from UK\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/mahanandi\/images\/kitchengargets\/IMGP1104.jpg\" class=\"noborder\" alt=\"kuzhi paniyaram or Ponganaala Pennam - Sent by Swarna, a reader of this blog, from UK\" \/><br \/>\n<small>Hand held coconut scraper\/grater and <i>Kuzhi Paniyaram (Ponganaala Pennam)<\/i><\/small><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Thanks Swarna!<!--749e9375111fb8ecdedf2f42cb8a4cd4--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swarna from Chennai, sent me via email, these two beautiful images of her kitchen gadgets for my Indian Kitchen series. She wrote to me&#8230; &#8220;Both of these given to me by my mother from Madras. The first one is a hand held coconut grater or scraper would be more apt and the second one is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian-kitchen","category-indian-utensils"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}