Instant nei appam recipe
Instant nei appam with rice flour without any soaking time. Learn how to prepare quick and easy nei appam with just few basic ingredients.
Servings: 25
Ingredients
- 1 cup Rice flour
- ¼ cup Ghee / nei
- 1 cup Pure Jaggery powder or Brown sugar
- 1 Banana over ripen
- 1 tablespoon Wheat flour
- 2 Cardamom
- ⅛ teaspoon Salt
Instructions
- In a blender, place banana, jaggery or brown sugar, cardamom, salt and grind smoothly.
- Add rice flour and wheat flour to it along and blend again.
- No need to add water. If needed only add later maximum 1 or 2 tbsp. Batter should be like pancake batter or idli dosa batter consistency.
- Transfer to the bowl. Heat appe pan/ paniyaram pan and generously drizzle with ghee.
- Pour the batter in the shallows (kuzhi) and cook covered in medium flame.
- Flip and cook again to cook until golden on both sides. Add ghee more on top if desired.
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Notes
- Overripe banana works best as it gives necessary softness, water to the batter.
- Towards end, it gets brown faster, so keep an eye. The jaggery / brown sugar caramelizes and gives crispy texture too.
- Be generous with ghee. You can also use ghee + sesame oil.
- I used long variety, it was not overripe so had to add some water.
- The batter should be like the idli dosa batter.
- If needed add a pinch of cooking soda.
- Use two banana if you use the small variety. Or may be ¾ cup if sliced to be approximate.
- Cook in medium or low flame to ensure inside of the appam gets cooked.
- If using jaggery, powder roughly and then measure.