easy unniyappam recipe | unniappam | neyyappam | banana appam
Recipe Snapshot
- Prep time: 10 minutes
- Cook time: 20 minutes
- Total time: 30 minutes
- Yield: 21 pieces
- Category: sweet
- Cuisine: kerala
Ingredients
- 1 cup raw rice
- 2 small banana (chop)
- 3 pods cardamom / elachi
- ¾ cup jaggery / gud
- 2 tbsp water
- 1 tbsp ghee / clarified butter
- 2 tbsp coconut (chopped)
- ¼ tsp dry ginger powder
- 1 tsp black sesame seeds / til
- ¼ tsp baking soda
- pinch salt
- ghee / clarified butter (for roasting)
Method
- firstly, soak 1 cup rice for 4 hours.
- drain off the water and transfer to the blender.
- add 2 small banana and 3 pods cardamom.
- blend to slightly coarse paste without adding any water.
- now in a tawa take ¾ cup jagger and 2 tbsp water.
- keeping the flame on medium, stir and dissolve jaggery.
- boil to a thick consistency, further cool the jaggery syrup slightly.
- filter the jaggery syrup and pour over rice batter.
- mix well, make sure to get thick dosa batter consistency.
- further in a small kadai heat 1 tbsp ghee and roast 2 tbsp coconut pieces.
- roast to a golden brown without burning coconut.
- pour the fried coconut along with ghee over batter.
- also add ¼ tsp dry ginger powder, 1 tsp black sesame seeds, ¼ tsp baking soda and pinch salt.
- mix well making sure to attain thick dosa batter consistency.
- heat appe pan and pour half tsp of ghee in each mould of appe pan.
- pour the batter into each appe mould.
- roast to golden brown on both sides or cook until the toothpick inserted comes out clean.
- finally, enjoy unniyappam / neyyappam hot topped with ghee if required.
Kiyaan Singh’s Kitchen Note
Keep this recipe as a working base: cook once as written, then adjust spice, texture, and serving style for your own table.