whole wheat banana appam
Banana Appam recipe is a kind of banan fritters made in the appam pan.
Ingredients
- 1 banana (ripe)
- 1/2 cup wheat flour/atta
- 2 tbsp rice flour
- 2 tbsp jaggery (grated) (or sugar)
- 1 tsp fennel seeds/sounf
- Baking soda a pinch
- Water as required
- Oil for greasing
Instructions
- Take a banana in a bowl. Prefer ripe to over ripe banana.
- Mash it well.
- Add wheat flour, rice flour, jaggery and fennel seeds.
- Add water little by water to make a batter. The consistency of batter should be thick but flowing.
- Put the batter at rest for about 10 minutes.
- Add baking soda and mix it well.
- Grease appe pan (see notes below if you don't have this pan) with oil and pour batter in every cavity little by little with spoon. Don't fill till the top because batter will rise while cooking and ooze out of the cavity.
- Cover the pan and let it cook for 3-4 minutes on low flame. However they will be cooked uncovered too but covering them will reduce the cooking time.
- Uncover and turn the sides of banana appe so that they get cooked from other side too.
- Once they turn golden brown from both the sides, take them out.
- Banana appe are ready. Enjoy.
Notes
- Can be made without adding rice flour but rice flour will bring a nice crust in appe. Though rice flour can be replaced with semolina too.
- In place of jaggery, you can add sugar.
- You can keep the ready batter in refrigerator for about a day but only until you haven't added baking soda. Once soda is added, don't delay in making appe.
- If you don't have appe pan, then scoop a tablespoon of batter and drop it in a medium hot oil. Fry till brown.