Nei Appam / Sweet Paniyaram/ Unniappam

Nei Appam/ Sweet Paniyaram/ Unniappam

Happy Jackfruit Day! 

How about a healthy, gluten-free, traditional sweet which is easy and simple to make. This is a Millet Paniyaram made with 'Kodo' millet. 

 Nei Appam is a sweet appe made with  soaked rice grinded with jaggery, cardamom powder, bananas.

This is a Millet appe with Jackfruit.

I've added ripe Jackfruit in this recipe, if  you don't have you can skip the step.

You can add Cardamom powder in this recipe.

Kodo millet - English

Varagu - Tamil

Harka - Kannada

Arikelu - Telugu

Kodra / Koden - Hindi

Koovaragu - Malyalam

I've already shared Traditional Nei Appam recipes for which the link in shared below:

Nei Appam/ Unniappam/ Sweet Paniyaram/ Sweet Appe:

Nendram Pazham Nei Appam

http://swadishtkitchen.blogspot.com/2017/08/nendhram-pazham-nei-appam.html

Nei Appam/ Unniappam

http://swadishtkitchen.blogspot.com/2016/08/nei-appam-for-krishna-janmashtami.html

Ingredients:

Kodo millet - 200 gms

Jaggery powder- 3 tablespoons/ 60 gms approx

Ripe Jackfruit - 8 bulbs / nos

Oil / ghee - as required to make Paniyaram

Method:

# Wash Kodo millet well. Soak it in water for 3-4 hrs.

#  Remove water, grind it in mixie without water. It will become grainy batter.

# Chop Jackfruit add in the mixie with kodo and grind to smooth  paste. Add jaggery powder and grind. The consistency of the batter should be like idli batter. Thick in consistency.

# Close with a lid  and let it rest for 4-5 hrs.

# Heat a Appe pan / Paniyaram pan, add ghee / oil. The oil should be hot not smoky.

# Pour the Nei Appam batter in the Paniyaram pan.

# Flame should be in medium.

# After 2-3 minutes turn it with spoon/ knife.

# Once it is cooked well remove it.

Try this healthy, traditional sweet and provide your comments.

Thank U!