Unniyappam - South Indian traditional snacks

Unniyappam (small appam) is famous in south Indian traditional snacks and special taste of this comes with sprinkled Jaggery on it, It is an unavoidable dish in special occasions celebrated in the house south India. Kottarakkara is very famous for unniyappam and its a small town in Kerala and it has famous traditional temples and churches. In old days when the unniyappam is cooked, you can smell its delicious flavour kilometers away. It contains coconut oil ,ghee, Jaggery, Jackfruit, Banana.

Ingredients for Unniyappam:
Rice Flour – 2 Cups
Maida Flour – ¼  cups
Jaggery – 300 gms
Banana – 2 ( any type or you can use jack fruit)
Coconut – ½ cups (cut into small tiny pieces)
Ghee – As you needed
Oil – As you needed

1. Here I mix Ghee and oil in a bowl and keep it aside. If you want to use oil alone, you can use.
2. Grind the banana or jack fruit into paste, and melt the Jaggery in to water ¾ th of rubber consistency.  
3. Fry the coconut pieces with ghee until the pieces get golden colour .
4. Now add the Rice flour ,maida flour, banana mix, fried coconut, salt in to melted jaggery , mix it by adding water little by little until you get the consistency of idli batter.  
5. Leave the batter for one hour to set it down.
6. Heat the mixed oil with ghee in a pan (Kuzi paniyara chatti), and reduce the flame to low , drop the batter in to the pan of ¾ th of full space.
7. Keep on turning the unniyappam till you get golden brown color on both sides. Finally you got the traditional south Indian snacks “unniyappam”.

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