🇮🇳 Indian Vegetarian

Achappam

Name: Achappam
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 6 servings
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 1/4 tsp Salt; 3/4 cup Sugar; 1.5 cups, thin Coconut Milk; for deep frying Coconut Oil; 2 cups Rice Flour; 4, powdered Green Cardamom

🇮🇳 Indian

Kerala's rose cookies — lacy golden flowers printed by a hot iron mould, eggless and cardamom-scented. Delicate as porcelain, gone in one bite.

Prep 15 min Cook 25 min Serves 6 Medium

Ingredients

Salt1/4 tsp
Sugar3/4 cup
Coconut Milk1.5 cups, thin
Coconut Oilfor deep frying
Rice Flour2 cups
Green Cardamom4, powdered

Optional extras

Sesame Seeds1 tbsp

Instructions

1
Whisk rice flour, sugar, cardamom and salt into thin coconut milk to a crepe-like batter.
2
Rest the batter 15 minutes.
3
Heat the achappam mould in oil until a drop of batter sizzles on it.
4
Dip the hot mould three-quarters into the batter, then submerge in oil.
5
Fry till the cookie loosens and turns gold; shake free and repeat.

Chef's tip

The mould must be hot enough each time — cold iron means the lace won't release.

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Watch how it's made

Video: അച്ചപ്പം | Achappam Recipe - Kerala traditional snack | Rose Cookies · on YouTube