VERY TASTY-NO 1 PAN MIX

Yes, friends, be ready to make a very easy, tasty, and mouth-watering pan mix, made out of beetle leaves, commonly known as pan.

Festivals, like Gokulashtami, Gouri, and Ganesh festivals, are fast approaching.

We use beetle leaves for pooja, and often there is an excess, which goes to waste.

PAN OR BEETLE LEAF is consumed with chuna (limestone), Catechu, beetle nuts, dry coconut, diamond sugar, Cardamom, cloves, and nutmeg.

If taken in this way, it needs good chewing and so healthy teeth too.

Have you ever observed how pan is being made?

To make a PAN, you need a pan which has to be washed, and then first lime (chuna) has to be applied, and then kattha (catechu) solution, and then beetle nuts, dry coconut gratings, clove, and cardamom. sugar or gulkand, etc.

Next, it must be folded carefully into a triangle to hold all the ingredients intact.

Here is a powder or pan mix that requires less chewing and eliminates the mess of making a pan.

Ingredients needed for making PAN MIX:-

• Pan or Beetle leaves-20 -25 in numbers.
• Beetle nuts-2 tablespoons
• Dry coconut scrapings-1 small cup
• Fennel seeds-2 tablespoons
• Diamond sugar-2 tablespoons
• Cardamom-8-10 without skin
• Cloves-8-10 in numbers
• Lime stone (chuna)-1 peanut size
• Catechu (kattha)-1 peanut size
• Ghee- 1 teaspoon

Preparation needed for pan mix:-

• Select good-quality beetle leaves that don’t have any spots on them.
• Wash them nicely and pat dry with a cotton cloth or tissue.
• Cut all of them into small pieces and keep aside.
• Scrape or grate dry coconut.
• Peel the Cardamoms and keep aside.
• Keep all the ingredients needed ready, in the required quantities.

Making of PAN MIX:-

• Take a pan and add ghee to heat.

• Now add the cut pan leaves into it.

• Roast for a few mts, or till it loses moisture.

• In a multi-mix jar, add Beetle nuts, Fennel seeds, cardamom seeds, cloves, Catechu, and lime stone.

• Grind it coarsely and now add diamond sugar.

• Now add the roasted pan leaves and grind once more.

• Lastly, add menthol to give a cooling effect in the pan.

Store it in an air-tight container.

The shelf life is at least 3 months.

• Note:- Instead of diamond sugar, you can also use GULKAND (rose petals seasoned in sugar syrup in sunlight).
• You get gulkand, ready, very easily in the market.

A VERY VERY TASTY, YUMMY, MOUTH MELTING, REFRESHING PAN MIX IS READY TO RELISH.

DID YOU LIKE? WILL YOU TRY? DO TRY ONCE.