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

Hey everyone, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, karthigai appam or nei appam or unni appam or sweet paniyaram. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Karthigai Appam or Nei Appam or Unni Appam or Sweet Paniyaram is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Karthigai Appam or Nei Appam or Unni Appam or Sweet Paniyaram is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.

Today I a m very happy in posting the recipe of Karthigai Appam or Nei Appam or Unni Appam or Sweet Paniyaram, which owes its origins to Kerala. In Malayalam, unni means small and appam means rice cake. This is festive sweet, made on Gokulashtami, the birthday of Hindu deity, Lord Krishna.

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have karthigai appam or nei appam or unni appam or sweet paniyaram using 8 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Karthigai Appam or Nei Appam or Unni Appam or Sweet Paniyaram:
  1. Take 1 cup Raw Rice -
  2. Take 3/4 cup Jaggery -
  3. Get 1 big or 2 Banana small ( see notes ) -
  4. Make ready 1/2 tsp Baking Soda -
  5. Make ready 1 tablespoon Coconut Grated - optional
  6. Take 1/2 tsp Cardamom powder -
  7. Prepare Butter Ghee Clarified / - for frying
  8. Get optional Rice Flour - for adjusting the batter

As the name calls for Nei Appam, the whole flavour of the appam comes from ghee only, so leave about calories for a day and try this delicious Nei appam recipe for this Karthigai Deepam. It is also called a Unniyappam recipe in Kerala. Kerala Unniyappam Recipe/Nei Appam or Sweet Paniyaram is an easy to make instant low fat sweet appam recipe. The batter made out of rice flour, wheat flour, jaggery & ripe banana puree, flavoured with few pinches of cardamoms is poured into a mould called "Appe Pan" in which ghee is heated & fried until deep brown.

Instructions to make Karthigai Appam or Nei Appam or Unni Appam or Sweet Paniyaram:
  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!!

One of my favourite dishes for Krishna Jayanthi is Nei (Ghee) appam or Unni appam. This is similar to the sweet paniyaram that is made in skillets with tiny moulds. Rice flour, jaggery and a smattering of over ripe banana come together in this delicious sweet dish that is cooked in ghee (See recipe). On the auspicious occasion of Krishna Jayanthi, especially in the evening when we plan to invite Lord Krishna home, we have to fry the sweet appam. Nei Appam is one of the famous dish in Kerala.

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