Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, karthigai appam or nei appam or unni appam or sweet paniyaram. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
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The Unni Appam is made out of a fermented batter of rice, jaggery, banana, grated coconut and cardamom powder. It is then poured into a vessel called Appakarai or Appakaram, which has ghee heated to a high temperature. These appams take the shape of small cups, and are fried until deep.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook karthigai appam or nei appam or unni appam or sweet paniyaram using 8 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Karthigai Appam or Nei Appam or Unni Appam or Sweet Paniyaram:
- Get 1 cup Raw Rice -
- Prepare 3/4 cup Jaggery -
- Take 1 big or 2 Banana small ( see notes ) -
- Prepare 1/2 tsp Baking Soda -
- Make ready 1 tablespoon Coconut Grated - optional
- Prepare 1/2 tsp Cardamom powder -
- Make ready Butter Ghee Clarified / - for frying
- Make ready optional Rice Flour - for adjusting the batter
Nei Appam is a one of the common sweet made for the Thirukarthigai festival. The appam dough is made using rice flour and jaggery mix which is further cooked on the ghee. We usually make nei appam for many occasions like Avani Avittam, Karthigai Deepam and many auspicious occasions. Appam is a traditional sweet which is made on all festivals along with medu vadai and paruppu vadai.
Steps to make Karthigai Appam or Nei Appam or Unni Appam or Sweet Paniyaram:
- Soak rice in water for at least 3 hours.
- Mix jaggery with water and heat it up for a few minutes till the jaggery melts. Strain the syrup to remove impurities and keep it aside.
- Drain the water from the rice and grind it with the jaggery syrup to a fine paste (you can add little water if needed).
- Now add the banana to the rice and jaggery paste and pulse it once or twice till the banana is mixed well with the paste and pour the mixture in a bowl.
- Check for the consistency. It should be slightly thicker than the dosa batter. If it is too watery just add 1 tbsp rice flour to it, to get the correct consistency (see notes).
- Add the cardamom powder and the grated coconut to the batter and mix well.
- Set the batter aside for at least 2 hours for fermentation (see notes).
- While frying, add the baking soda to the batter and mix well.
- Then heat paniyaram pan, add a tsp of ghee / oil in each hole. Pour a spoon full of the batter in each hole.When cooked on one side, carefully flip to other side, add oil / ghee if required.
- Cook until both sides are dark brown.You can even deep fry them fully by adding ghee/oil to 3/4th of each hole. And the appams are ready to enjoyyyy!!
So try out this traditional recipe for karthigai deepam Technorati Tags: Appam Recipes, unniappam recipe , karthigaideepamrecipes, diwali recipes , festival recipes, indian sweet recipes, unniyappam. Unniyappam or Unni Appam is a traditional Kerala sweet snack made from flour, banana, jaggery, coconuts and deep fried in ghee or oil. Now flip the appam using the spatula or spoon and cook the other side until they are fully done. Check by inserting a toothpick in the center and it should come out. This is a traditional nei appam recipe without banana, wheat flour (Ghee appam).
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