Recipe can be found @ Zesty South Indian Kitchen
What you need
Unbleached all purpose flour: 1 cup (packed)
Granulated sugar: 1/3 cup (original recipe asked for 1 cup of sugar)
Egg: ½ of one egg
Cardamom pods: 3 no
Yellow food color: 3 drops
Water: 1 cup
Nigella seeds/ Kalonji: 1 teaspoon
Salt: 1/8 teaspoon
Oil for frying: 2 cups
How I made
In a medium sauce pan heat water and sugar and bring to boil or until sugar melts completely. To this add ground cardamom pods and set aside to cool.
In a large bowl add all purpose flour, salt and nigella seeds and mix to combine everything. To this add egg, food color and half of sugar syrup and whisk together to form a lump free batter. Once everything is combined well add rest of sugar syrup and make smooth pancake like batter. Set aside for 30 minutes.
By the end of resting time, heat oil in a flat bottomed pan (similar way to make Jalebi/Jangiri). When the oil becomes hot (around 360F) add 1/8 cup of batter directly into the oil. You don’t need to spread; it will spread by its own. When one side is done, flip the other and cook until it becomes golden brown color. It took about 2 minutes per sides. When they are ready try to squeeze the excess oil using buy pressing them in between two spoons and transfer to kitchen towel to remove any leftover oil .continue the process until you finish the entire dough. You will be able make 3 -4 pancakes depending upon how wide your pan is.
Enjoy with your favorite tea or coffee.