Nei Appam / Neyyappam
Kerala Sweet Dish : Quantity: 28 appams Ingredients: Rice 1 cup - sona masoori Jaggery 3/4th cup - Kerala dark jaggery . Half ripe banana Cardamom powder Baking soda Homemade ghee for frying appam Water if needed. Appliance needed: Blender Non-stick Panniyaram pan / appe patra Procedure: 1. Wash 1 cup of rice properly and allow it to soak for 1-2 hours. 2. Grind the soaked rice into a very fine paste adding little or no water at all. Make sure the paste is very fine . It should not be grainy, 3. Grate 3/4 th cup jaggery finely. Make sure you use the dark kerala jaggery . This gives the appam an authentic dark color. 4. Mash the ripe banana properly. Banana gives softness and flavor to appams. 5. Add the jaggery , mashed banana and half table spoon cardamom powder to the ground rice and grind everything well together. 6. Adding banana makes the mixture flowy . If it is not flowy , add little water and grind again to mix well so that the mixture is fl...