Ravai Paniyaram (Pancakes)

This is recipe of my grand mother. It's similar to pancakes but instead of flour, we are adding  rava. Ammachi(1908 - 1992)  was a teacher and was in close ties with white priests/ nuns  those days. So I think she learnt about pancakes from them and modified for indian kitchen. Whatever it is , this is quick and tasty. Serve it as a breakfast or at teatime.

Ingredients
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Rava  - 1 Cup
Banana - 1
Cardamom - 1
Egg - 1(optional)
Salt
Sugar - as per taste
Milk - 1/2 Cup (optional)
Oil

Method
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1. Soak rava with 2 cups water.
2  After 15 minutes, drain the water above rava.
3. In a blender, blend everything except cardamom together.  Add crushed cardamom later.
4. The consistency should be  thicker than dosa batter.
5. Heat a dosa tava.
6. Add a laddle of batter. It would sperad by itself. If not, spread it into a thick dosa like oothappam.
7. Apply oil generously around the dosa.
8. Flip it carefully
9. Remove from fire once cooked.
10.Serve hot.

Note:
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1.You can soak the rava overnight. In that case, no need of blender. You can mash banana by hand and mix remaining things by hand / fork and go ahead.
2. If no time for soaking, you can straight ahead go for blender. In that case, pancakes would be bit crispier as rava was not soaked.
3. You can omit egg if you don't have.
4. If you want to omit milk, add water.