Wheat flour appam is mostly made for festivals like Ganesh chaturthi, Krishna Jayanthi and karthigai deepam. This is an instant version which you can whip up in minutes.

Its very easy to make and delicious too with flavorful wheat flour and jaggery in it. You can make it for snacks too.
Sometimes I feel like eating sweet made out of jaggery, this version of appam made with wheat flour gives me a quick fix for that.
Simple ingredients and very easy to make also, that satisfies your taste buds!
Check my other version with rice flour
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Wheat flour appam recipe
Wheat flour appam recipe with full video and step by step pictures. Instant version that takes under 30 mins, made for traditional festivals like Gokulashtami, karthigai deepam
Servings 4
Cup measurements
Ingredients
- 1 cup Wheat flour
- 2 tablespoon Rice flour
- ¾ cup Jaggery crushed
- ½ cup Banana mashed
- 1 Cardamom
- 1 pinch Cooking soda
- Oil or ghee - For frying
- Salt - A big pinch
Instructions
- First powder the jaggery and mix all the ingredients wheat flour, rice flour, mashed banana, cooking soda, cardamom and salt with water.
- The consistency should be thick like vada batter.
- Heat oil in kadai, when hot, pour the batter with help of a ladle. Perfect heat of oil can be known by, as you pour the batter, appam should not settle down,but should come up.
- Keep in low medium flame when you cook to ensure even cooking,without burning. Fry till golden brown and drain from oil to kitchen towel and enjoy!
Video
Notes
- You can substitute wheat flour with maida/all purpose flour.
- You can also substitute jaggery with sugar.
- If you feel/doubt jaggery having any impurities,melt it with little water in stove,and filter it.then add the wheat flour to it and make batter,adjust water proportion.
- Can fry more than one at a time,depending upon the amount of oil we keep for frying
- Adding banana give a nice flavour and softness to the appam,but it can be omitted too.(In my opinion,if we omit banana,the softness reduces,but you get the full flavour of wheat flour,so its up to you)!
- You can fry in ghee,which will give an excellent taste.
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How to make wheat flour appam method
- First powder the jaggery and mix all the ingredients wheat flour, rice flour, mashed banana, cooking soda, cardamom and salt with water.
- The consistency should be thick like vada batter.
- Heat oil in kadai, when hot, pour the batter with help of a ladle. Perfect heat of oil can be known by, as you pour the batter, appam should not settle down, but should come up.
- Keep in low medium flame when you cook to ensure even cooking, without burning. Fry till golden brown and drain from oil to kitchen towel and enjoy!
NOTE
- You can substitute wheat flour with maida/all purpose flour.
- You can also substitute jaggery with sugar.
- If you feel/doubt jaggery having any impurities,melt it with little water in stove,and filter it.then add the wheat flour to it and make batter,adjust water proportion.
- Can fry more than one at a time,depending upon the amount of oil we keep for frying
- Adding banana give a nice flavour and softness to the appam,but it can be omitted too.(In my opinion,if we omit banana,the softness reduces,but you get the full flavour of wheat flour,so its up to you)!
- You can fry in ghee,which will give an excellent taste.
Fluffy appams are ready!
Laavanya
My mom adds bananas to this sometimes... so good for an evening snack 🙂
srikars kitchen
nice entry.. my method also same.. thxs for sharing.. adding banana, it will come very soft...
Sireesha
Appams look very very delicious...
Happy cook
Yummmm I am sure there is nothing left for me.
n33ma
These look so scrumptious.....Maybe you should send it to fried snack event:)
anudivya
That looks delicious. I might just make this for Deepavali.
Uma
ooh, yummy!
Purnima
Rajeshwari,
Wonderful treat with wheat flour, surely would try for kids n us! 😀
Kitchen Flavours
Wow looks awesome.
Sujatha
I make a similar one with banana and maida, and have recently posted in my blog.. Your appam looks yummy! I will try it with wheat flour next time!
raaji
never tried it with wheat flour....nice step by step desc..
Daily Meals
Looks delicious...
Yasmeen
Those sweet appams looks so delicious.Brings back my memories of childhood,it was our favorite snack:)
Sia
yum yum yum... i can use my new appa pan to make this instead of deep frying... delicious...
Nidhi
Seems like indian version of the banana muffin. very interesting. Loved it.
Menu Today
Hi Raks,
Your version looks nice.. I add grated coconut to it...Perfect shape. Thanks for sharing.
Bharathy
Sooper a irukke!..ithukku enna korai??:)!!
haikamala
mouth watering
Faseela Noushad
soft n yummy appam...
tennisfan30
hi...instead of deep frying...can u make it in a paniyaram mould?
RAKS KITCHEN
Yes you can try that. Cook in low flame to make sure it's cooked.
Reshma Shetty
I tried this it come as little sticky from inside like halwa sweet it should b like this only or some other way. Kindly let me know.
Raks anand
May be it dint got cooked properly? inside it will be soft but not sticky.
Reshma Shetty
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Reshma Shetty
OK . Thank u . Will try once again and let u know.
Unknown
Hi,
You always rock 🙂 Can we make this in a paniyaram pan while using maida?
gopinath gopinath
Great
gopinath gopinath
Very nice
rekha sathivel
hai raks I forgot to add elachi & cooking soda, but it came out well.
rekha sathivel
hai raks it was amazing I tried .it came out well, but I forgot to add Elachi & cooking soda, is it fine raks.
kindly reply me
Raks anand
If its good, then no problem right? 🙂
Sayana
i tried it @ ma home.. the recipe is awesome .. outcome was best.. thank you 🙂
Jaya Senthilkrishnan
Hi Raks
Can we try the above recipe in Paniyaram Pan?
Raks anand
yes you can try. Make sure you add enough cooking soda for getting cooked. Also banana is must for softness
Aarthy
Hi can we bake this in a cup cake mould
Raks anand
Yes, you can try, add baking powder as well
Vaishnavi
Tried this for gokulashtami today. Came out well. Didnt add cooking soda. Thanks raji for the recipe
RajeeSam
Hello Raji,
I tried this appam and it came out well tasty but not the shape ....how u get the round appam shape any tips pls
Lalitha S
I don't use cooking soda. May I use Eno as a replacement . I have this question for a long time
Raks anand
Banana is enough. You can add a ladle full of idli dosa batter. Eno also same as cooking soda by the way.
Raks anand
Why what happened? If the consistency is right ot should be in shape. Have you read all the tips i have given?
RajeeSam
I guess water propotion went little more i will try out again raji...thanks a lot
Nandini Manjunath
I prepare the same way.fluffy and yummy
uma
thanks a lot.. i tried it today.. it comes vry welll..
uma
yummy... superb.. i tried it today it comes vry well.. thank u
A
What is cooking soda?? Is it same as baking soda???
Raks anand
Yes, cooking soda is same as baking soda, only baking powder is different.
Unknown
I followed the recipe as it is !!! It came out well Thankyou
Unknown
Instead of deep fry. Shall I use this batter in paniyaram kadai
Raks anand
Thank you 🙂
Raks anand
Sure you can 🙂
Unknown
Hi,
Can we use sugar instead of jaggery?
Raks Kitchen
Sure
Ramya
Do you have to melt sugar also with water . Tell about how to dissolve sugar and it's proportion. If I don't want to use soda is that ok?
Raks Anand
No need to melt, just add as such. Keep aside for 10 mins and mix again, until it gets dissolved. Soda gives fluffiness. If adding banana you can skip. How ever softness and texture may vary.
Arifa SaihuSadat
Thank you so much for your Wheat paniyaram recipe. It came out very well. I used cinnamon powder Instead of cardamom powder.
Raks Anand
Thank you for your feedback. Cinnamon sounds nice idea.