UNNI APPAM / sweet banana appam

Unni Appam (Kugan)

UNNI APPAM

Ingredients:
2 over ripe bananas fully mashed
1 cup rice flour
½ cup all purpose flour
1/4 cup grated coconut
½ cup jaggery (more if you like sweet)
¼ tsp cardamom powder
Little salt
Little ghee

Method:

Add the jaggery to 1 cup of water.
Heat a little and dissolve it.
Strain and keep aside.

When the syrup is cold, add the rice and all purpose flour.
Add also the grated coconut, cardamom powder and salt.
Lastly add in the mashed bananas.
Now mix everything to a batter. It should be like idli batter.

Now heat a kulipaniyara chatty.
Pour little ghee, fill the holes, ¾ full with the batter.
When it is cooked at the bottom, flip over and cook the
other side. You will get soft sweet banana appam.

Those without the kulipaniyara chatty,
Can pour spoonful of the batter in hot oil and fry them.