Kerala Style Neyyappam – Sweet Rice Fritters

Kerala Style Neyyappam – Sweet Rice Fritters

Ingredients

• Raw Rice (Pachari) - 3 cups
• Maida - 2 tbsp
• Banana (Cheru pazham) - 2 nos
• Chopped coconut - 1/2 cup
• Baking soda - 1/4 tsp
• Jaggery - 1/2 kg
• Sesame seeds - 1 tsp
• Salt - one pinch
• Ghee - 3 tsp
• Coconut oil - 4 cups
• Cardamom - 2 nos (crushed)
• Water - 2 cups

Method

Step 1

Soak the rice for minimum 5 hours. Drain and grind it in a mixer. Do not make the flour into too fine powder. Mash the bananas using a spoon.

Step 2

Heat a pan add water, jaggery and melt it. When it is done drain the jaggery syrup using a strainer.

Step 3

Heat a pan add 1 tsp of ghee and fry the chopped coconut until it becomes light brown colour.

Step 4

Take a bowl add the rice flour, mashed banana, sesame seeds, salt, crushed cardamom, maida, fried coconut, ghee, baking soda and jaggery syrup and make a batter. Keep this batter for 30 minutes.

Step 5

Heat coconut oil in a deep bottomed pan. When the coconut oil is heat using a ladle pour the batter to the oil. Deep fry both sides.

Step 6

Tasty, crunchy Neyyappam is ready to be served.