Recipe: Yummy Karthigai Appam or Nei Appam or Unni Appam or Sweet Paniyaram

Karthigai Appam or Nei Appam or Unni Appam or Sweet Paniyaram.

You can cook Karthigai Appam or Nei Appam or Unni Appam or Sweet Paniyaram using 8 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Karthigai Appam or Nei Appam or Unni Appam or Sweet Paniyaram

1. Prepare of Raw Rice -.
2. You need of Jaggery -.
3. Prepare of Banana small ( see notes ) -.
4. Prepare of Baking Soda -.
5. You need of Coconut Grated - optional.
6. You need of Cardamom powder -.
7. Prepare of Butter Ghee Clarified / - for frying.
8. It's of Rice Flour - for adjusting the batter.

Karthigai Appam or Nei Appam or Unni Appam or Sweet Paniyaram instructions

1. Soak rice in water for at least 3 hours..
2. Mix jaggery with water and heat it up for a few minutes till the jaggery melts. Strain the syrup to remove impurities and keep it aside..
3. Drain the water from the rice and grind it with the jaggery syrup to a fine paste (you can add little water if needed)..
4. Now add the banana to the rice and jaggery paste and pulse it once or twice till the banana is mixed well with the paste and pour the mixture in a bowl..
5. Check for the consistency. It should be slightly thicker than the dosa batter. If it is too watery just add 1 tbsp rice flour to it, to get the correct consistency (see notes)..
6. Add the cardamom powder and the grated coconut to the batter and mix well..
7. Set the batter aside for at least 2 hours for fermentation (see notes)..
8. While frying, add the baking soda to the batter and mix well..
9. Then heat paniyaram pan, add a tsp of ghee / oil in each hole. Pour a spoon full of the batter in each hole.When cooked on one side, carefully flip to other side, add oil / ghee if required..
10. Cook until both sides are dark brown.You can even deep fry them fully by adding ghee/oil to 3/4th of each hole. And the appams are ready to enjoyyyy!!.