Vattayappam
Ingredients
• Rice flour (Ari podi) – 2 cups
• Sugar – ½ cup
• Semolina (Rava/Sooji) – 2 tbsp
• Yeast – ½ tsp
• Grated coconut – 2 cups
• Sugar – ½ tsp
• Raisins- for garnishing
• Cardamom – 4 nos
• Salt – As required
Preparation
1. Heat a wide pan and cook rava with 2 glasses of water on low flame till it becomes soft & loose. Remove and Let it cool.
2. Add ¼ glass of lukewarm water to yeast and ½ tsp of sugar. Allow it to rise.
3. Grind the coconut with enough water & keep aside.
4. Take 2 cups rice flour in a vessel, add rava.
5. Add yeast & mix well.
6. And also add ground coconut & mix well.
7. Crush the cardamom and add it to the batter.
8. Make sure that the batter should not be too loose.
9. It should have a medium consistency.
10. Keep it aside for 4-5 hrs.
11. After 4 -5 hrs, add ½ cup of sugar or more if required, add salt & stir well.
12. In a cake tin add a liitle ghee/oil and pour the batter into it.
13. Put some raisins on top.
14. Steam it for 20 – 25 mins.
15. Remove and cut them in the shape you may like.
Serves
5-6 Persons
By Bhaktin Shanti
