Ingredients

The following ingredients have 4 Servings
  • 1 Cup Wheat Flour
  • 1/2 Cup Jaggery
  • 1 tbsp Rice Flour
  • 1 Large Ripe Banana
  • 1 tbsp Grated Coconut
  • 2 Pinch Cardamom Powder
  • 1 Pinch Dry Ginger powder / Sukku
  • 1 Pinch Cooking Soda
  • 1 Pinch Salt
  • 1.5 + 1/4 Cup Water ((To melt Jaggery))
  • Ghee / Oil

Instruction

  • Grate coconut, and get ready with your ingredients. Melt jaggery with 1/4 cup of water in a pan. No string consistency is required. Keep by side.
  • In a bowl, add wheat flour, rice flour, ripe banana and mix it. Mash the banana well. Filter the melted jaggery through a metal strainer to remove impurities. Then add to the wheat flour, banana mix.
  • Now whisk it well. Pour about 1 cup of water and whisk again. The batter should not be too thick or watery. Then add grated coconut, elachi powder, dry ginger powder, salt and cooking soda. Give a quick mix.
  • Heat a paniyaram pan, grease each mould with ghee. Using a spoon, take little batter and fill each mould with 3/4 of the batter. (You can also deep fry the appam's in kadai using oil).
  • Close the pan. Cook in very low flame and once the bottom is cooked, flip it to the other side using a spoon or fork. Leave it for 2 to 3 minutes in low flame and add little ghee so it gets brown equally on both sides.Delicious Sweet Appam is ready.