Ingredients:
1 1/2 cup raw rice / pachari
3-4 small ripe bananas
1 cup jaggery syrup ( melt jaggery adding water )
1 tsp cardamom powder
1 tsp black sesame seeds
2 tbsp sliced coconut
a pinch of salt
1 tbsp ghee / oil
oil for frying
Preparation:
- Wash and soak the raw rice in water for 3 hours.
- In a blender, add drained rice and grind it with bananas and strained jaggery syrup to a smooth batter.
- Transfer it to a bowl and keep it covered for 7-8 hours. Adjust the consistency of water.
- Heat ghee / oil in a small frying pan and fry the coconut bits till light brown.
- Add this fried coconut bits and sesame seeds to the batter and mix well.
- Add cardamom powder and salt and mix well.
- Heat oil in an unniyappam pan at medium flame.
- When oil becomes hot, pour a spoonful of batter into each hole and cook on low-medium flame till the sides gets cooked.
- Then turn it using a skewer or spoon gently and cook the other side until it turns golden brown colour and cooked.
- Remove from the pan and drain them on a paper towel…Serve hot..
