Elai Appam

IMAGERY:

INGREDIENTS:
Raw rice floor - 250 g
Salt- 1 chittigai
For the Stuffing:
Jack fruit flesh - 4 pieces
Cashew nut - 10 pieces
Raisins - 6 pieces
Grated Coconut - 1/2 cup
Jaggery - 1/4 cup
To Grind:
Jack fruit flesh - 8 pieces

PREPARATION: 

• Take the rice floor and add a pinch of salt. Mix it well and keep aside.  

• Grind the jack friut flesh into a fine paste.

• Add it to the rice floor and mix it well to make a dough. Sprinkle water as necessary and add a little oil while preparing the dough.

• Take bowl and add grated coconut and powdered jaggery.
• Finely chop the jack fruit pieces, cashew and raisins and add to the above. Mix it well to get the stuffing - pooranam. 

• Make small balls of the dough. Cut the banana leaves into small circles. Apply little oil over the cut leafand flatten the ball over this.

 

• Now keep the stuffing in the centre and fold it along with the leaf into a semicircle.

• Press the edges to lock the flattened dough. The excess dough will come out. Remove those and pin the leaf-filledappam with a small stick.

 

• Steam cook the appams.

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 Sweetness - Both inside and outside....