Uniappam

Ingredients list for Uniappam

• 500 gram Short Grain Rice soaked for 2-3 hours and drained
• 300 grams Jaggery soaked in 1 cup water
• ¼ teaspoon Dried ginger powder (soonth)
• 4-5 Green cardamom seeds
• 2-3 Banana(elaichi)
• 1 tsp + fo Ghee
• ¼ cup Fresh coconut small pieces
• 1 teaspoon black sesame seeds (kale til)
• for dustin Icing sugar

Method

1. Put rice and jaggery in a grinder jar and grind with little water, ginger powder and green cardamom seeds.
2. Peel bananas, cut into roundels and add to the grinder jar and grind into a smooth batter. Transfer into a bowl.
3. Heat 1 tsp ghee in a non-stick pan, add coconut and sauté till lightly browned. Add black sesame seeds, mix and add this to the batter and mix well.
4. Heat unniappam mould. Fill the dents with sufficient ghee and heat. Pour batter into the dents till they are ¾ full and cook, turning the appams once with a skewer, till golden and crisp from all over.
5. Remove the unniappams from the mould, arrange them on a serving plate, dust icing sugar on top and serve immediately.

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