Friday, November 3, 2017

Pumpkin Unniappam or Pumpkin paniyaram



Ingredients:
Wheat flour - 1 cup
Rice flour - ½  cup
Jaggery - ¾ cup - Add half cup of water to melt and strain it and keep aside

Pumpkin - 1 cup mashed
Cardamom powder - ½ tsp
Sesame - 2 tsp
Coconut bits - ¼  cup fried in ghee
Oil for frying

Preparation:
Mix wheat flour, rice flour, mashed pumpkin and melted jaggery by adding little water  for the batter. The consistency of the batter should be like idli batter.  Then add the fried coconut pieces, sesame seeds, cardamom powder, baking soda and mix well.  Take the appachati, add some oil to heat and heat on low flame, when the oil is hot, take a spoon of batter and drop/pour into the appachati.  Cook of low heat, you have to turn the appam in between, When the appam changes its color tto dark golden brown remove and drain it in a paper towel and serve....

This is a nice evening snack and also prepared during  Onam, Vishu, Krishan Jayanthi and so on.....

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