How much cooking time?

30 min — 15 min prep, 15 min cooking.

Karthigai Appam

Name: Karthigai Appam
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Tamil Nadu Indian
Ingredients: 2piece Cardamom; salt; 80g Water; 100g rice; 0.5cup sugar; 2tbsp Coconut Oil

Small sweet rice flour fritters made for Karthigai Deepam festival. Offered to lamps as prasadam.

Time 30 min · Serves 4 · 251 kcal · Central Tamil Nadu, Tamil Nadu

Ingredients

Garnish

Cardamom — 2 piece (ground)

Main

salt (optional) (whole)
Water — 80 g
rice — 100 g (ground)
sugar — 0.5 cup (whole)

Tempering

Coconut Oil — 2 tbsp (whole)

Method

Dissolve sugar in water over low heat to make a thin syrup; cool slightly.
Whisk rice flour with the cooled syrup and cardamom to a lump-free, idli-batter-like consistency.
Heat coconut oil in a kadai on medium flame.
Drop small spoonfuls of batter into the hot oil.
Deep-fry until golden brown on both sides, turning once. Drain and offer as prasadam to the Karthigai Deepam lamps.

Common questions

How many calories in one plate of Karthigai Appam?: 251 kcal per plate.
How much cooking time?: 30 min — 15 min prep, 15 min cooking.

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