🇮🇳 Indian Vegetarian

Unniyappam

Name: Unniyappam
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 8 servings
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 1 tbsp Ghee; for the appam pan Peanut Oil; 1.5 cups Rice Flour; 1/2, mashed Plantain; 1/4 cup Grated Coconut; 3/4 cup, melted Jaggery; 3, powdered Green Cardamom

🇮🇳 Indian

Kerala's small round temple-offering sweets — jaggery-fermented rice batter studded with coconut chips and banana, fried in appam pans. Dense, fragrant, faintly boozy from the ferment.

Prep 20 min Cook 20 min Serves 8 Medium

Ingredients

Ghee1 tbsp
Peanut Oilfor the appam pan
Rice Flour1.5 cups
Plantain1/2, mashed
Grated Coconut1/4 cup
Jaggery3/4 cup, melted
Green Cardamom3, powdered

Instructions

1
Melt jaggery with a splash of warm water; strain.
2
Mix rice flour, jaggery syrup, mashed plantain, cardamom and water to a thick batter; rest 2 hours.
3
Fry coconut pieces in ghee till gold; fold into batter.
4
Fill greased appam-pan wells three-quarters full.
5
Cook on medium, turning once, till mahogany and springy.

Chef's tip

The 2-hour rest gives unniyappam their characteristic light sourness — don't skip it.

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Watch how it's made

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