Sweet Appam (unniappam/nei appam).
You can have Sweet Appam (unniappam/nei appam) using 6 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Sweet Appam (unniappam/nei appam)
- Prepare 1 Cup of Rice (raw).
- Prepare ¾ Cup of Jaggery.
- Prepare ½ Tablespoon of Cardamom Powder.
- It's 1 of Banana.
- You need 1 Tablespoon of Coconut Grated.
- Prepare of Ghee or Oil.
Sweet Appam (unniappam/nei appam) instructions
- Soak rice in water for few hours. (3hrs - recommended but 1hr works).
- Soak jaggery in water and remove the impurities..
- Drain water from rice and grind it to a fine paste..
- Add jaggery to the paste and grind both together..
- Add banana and mix it in the grinder/mixie..
- Transfer the mix to another bowl. Add the grated coconut and cardamom powder and mix..
- The mixture should neither be watery or too tight. (Similar to pancake batter or dosa batter)..
- Keep the mix aside for over an hour. (Any less also is fine).
- Heat ghee/oil in a frying pan..
- Fill a deep spoon with the batter and pour it slowly in the oil. (There's a special utensil called "Paniyaram Pan" for frying appams. If you find one, you can use that too.).
- Pour as many spoons as the pan has space for. However, each ball should almost completely immerse in the oil..
- Fry till both sides of an appam turn golden brown/deep brown. (Color will vary according to the type of jaggery).
- Serve the beautiful appams after lunch, before lunch or have it as a snack..
- After all this, you will notice the jaggery water that's leftover from immersing jaggery. What do you do with it? Check out "JAGGERGIN".