Sweet Appam | Banana Appam
The Sweet appam recipe combines ripe bananas, rice flour, and jaggery to create a delightful treat. These treats, also referred to as Banana Appam or Banana Paniyaram, are a straightforward and sweet South Indian snack.
Ingredients
- 1.5 cups Rice Flour – 240 grams
- ½ cup chopped jaggery – 100 to 105 grams
- 1.5 cups water
- 3 bananas (small to medium-sized), 250 grams bananas – mashed very well or pureed
- ¼ cup chopped coconut – optional
- 2 teaspoons Ghee – for frying the coconut, can also use coconut oil or sunflower oil
- 2 teaspoons black sesame seeds – can also add white sesame seeds
- ½ teaspoon green cardamom powder
- ½ teaspoon ginger powder (ground ginger) – optional
- ¼ teaspoon cumin powder (ground cumin) – optional
- ½ teaspoon baking soda – optional
- ½ to 1 teaspoon Ghee – to add in each mould or add as required
Instructions
Preparation
- First chop the jaggery. You should be able to get ½ cup chopped jaggery. You can also use jaggery powder, instead of chopped jaggery.
- Then add the jaggery in a bowl or pan containing 1.5 cups water.
- Keep the bowl or pan on low to medium flame and let the solution heat through. Stir so that the jaggery melts.
- You just need to melt the jaggery. When the jaggery melts, then filter the syrup and keep aside.
- Now chop a small piece of coconut in small bits. You will need about ¼ cup chopped coconut. You can even use grated coconut or you can skip coconut altogether.
Making Banana Appam Batter
- Heat 2 teaspoons ghee in a pan. Then add the chopped coconut.
- Stir often and saute them till they are light golden. Keep aside.
- In a pan, peel and chop the bananas. Mash the bananas with a fork or masher very well.
- There should be no chunks in the bananas. You can even puree the bananas in a blender.
- Add green cardamom powder, ginger powder and cumin powder.
- Mix very well. To the bowl containing the jaggery solution, add the rice flour.
- Add black sesame seeds. You can also use white sesame seeds.
- Begin to mix very well. Make a smooth batter without any lumps.
- Add the pureed bananas to the rice flour mixture along with the coconut.
- Add the baking soda. Baking soda makes the texture more porous and soft. If you want you can skip too.
- Mix thoroughly.
Making Sweet Appam
- Heat the appe pan and add ½ to 1 teaspoon ghee in each mould. Instead of ghee you can use coconut oil too.
- With a spoon, pour the batter till ¾ᵗʰ or more than ¾ᵗʰ of the volume in each mould.
- Keep the heat to low or medium and cook the sweet appams.
- With a wooden/bamboo stick or skewer, turn over the banana appam which have become golden.
- When the rest of the sweet appam are golden, turn them over too and cook all of them till crisp and golden.
- Once done remove and place them in a casserole. In the casserole they stay warm for some time.Same way prepare the remaining ones. You can store them in an air tight box or container in the fridge.
- Serve Sweet Appam hot or warm or at room temperature.
Notes
- You can substitute coconut oil or sunflower oil instead of ghee.
- Ginger powder and cumin powder are optional and can be skipped, if you do not have them.
- The approximate nutrition info is for 1 sweet appam made from this recipe.
Nutrition
Calories: 44kcalCarbohydrates: 9gProtein: 0.5gFat: 1gSaturated Fat: 0.4gPolyunsaturated Fat: 0.1gCholesterol: 1mgSodium: 14mgPotassium: 37mgFiber: 0.4gSugar: 3gVitamin A: 6IUVitamin C: 1mgCalcium: 3mgIron: 0.1mg
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