Recipe: Appetizing Vatteappam / Steamed Rice and coconut cake

Vatteappam / Steamed Rice and coconut cake.

You can cook Vatteappam / Steamed Rice and coconut cake using 10 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Vatteappam / Steamed Rice and coconut cake

1. You need 1 1/2 cup of raw rice.
2. It's 3/4 cup of fresh grated coconut.
3. Prepare 3/4 cup of cooked rice.
4. You need 1 tsp of instant yeast.
5. You need 2-3 of cardmom pods crushed.
6. It's As required of Jeera or dry fruits to top (use cashews or rasins).
7. You need 1/2 tsp of salt.
8. It's 3-4 tsp of sugar (according to taste).
9. You need As required of Water to grind.
10. Prepare As required of Oil to grease.

Vatteappam / Steamed Rice and coconut cake instructions

1. Soak the raw rice for at least 4 hrs and grind it along with freshly grated coconut and Cook rice and grind it to a fine paste..
2. Add crushed cardamom, sugar and salt and give is a nice grind again in the mixer. Add the yeast and final grind, just once..
3. Pour the batter in a vessel and wait for at least 2 hours to puff it up. The batter comes out like fermented idli batter..
4. Use a cake tin, grease it's sides and then pour this batter. Top it with cumin or dry fruits and steam it for 15 to 20 min till done..
5. Remove it from steamer and cut them into pieces like a cake and serve them with tea or as snacks..