
Neyyappam
Sweet rice flour fritters cooked in ghee. Kerala temple offering and festive sweet.
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Time 45 min · Serves 8 · 371 kcal · Central Kerala, Kerala
Ingredients
- Ghee — 120 g
- Fresh Coconut — 30 g
- Banana Elaichi — 60 g
- sesame seeds — 5 g
- Rice Flour — 250 g
- salt — 1 g
- Cardamom Powder — 2 g
- Water — 150 g
- Jaggery — 200 g
- Baking Soda (Food Grade Sodium Bicarbonate) — 1 g
Method
- Melt jaggery in water, strain and cool.
- Mash banana and mix with rice flour and jaggery syrup.
- Whisk to a thick, smooth batter.
- Fry coconut bits in ghee; add to batter with cardamom and sesame.
- Rest the batter for 2 hours.
- Add soda and salt; mix gently.
- Heat ghee in an appam pan; pour batter into each hole.
- Fry till golden, flip and cook the other side.
- Drain and serve warm.
Common questions
- How many calories in one plate of Neyyappam?
- 371 kcal per plate.
- How much cooking time?
- 45 min — 30 min prep, 15 min cooking.
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