Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special 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 bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Karthigai Appam or Nei Appam or Unni Appam or Sweet Paniyaram owes its origins to Kerala. In Malayalam, unni means "small" and appam means "rice cake". This is a festive sweet, made on Gokulashtami, the birthday of Hindu deity, Lord Krishna.
Karthigai Appam or Nei Appam or Unni Appam or Sweet Paniyaram is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. They are fine and they look fantastic. Karthigai Appam or Nei Appam or Unni Appam or Sweet Paniyaram is something which I have loved my whole life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have 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:
- Make ready 1 cup Raw Rice -
- Make ready 3/4 cup Jaggery -
- Prepare 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 -
- Get Butter Ghee Clarified / - for frying
- Get optional Rice Flour - for adjusting the batter
Nei Appam is also called as unniyappam in Kerala. Nei appam reminds me of so many good memories. One of my favourite dishes for Krishna Jayanthi is Nei (Ghee) appam or Unni appam. This is similar to the sweet paniyaram that is made in skillets with tiny moulds.
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!!
Rice flour, jaggery and a smattering of over ripe banana come together in this delicious sweet dish that is cooked in ghee (See recipe). Unniappam Recipe / Unniyappam / Neyyappam / Banana Appam / Nei Appam - Karthigai Deepam Recipes. Appam is a traditional sweet which is made on all festivals along with medu vadai and paruppu vadai. So try out this traditional recipe for karthigai deepam and you will love it for sure. Nei appam (Ghee Appam) is actually made from grinding rice with grated coconut, added jaggery and fried in ghee generously.
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