Rava Appalu Rava Appam Navratri special Recipes Naivedyam Recipes

Rava Appalu Rava Appam Navratri special Recipes Naivedyam Recipes Indian sweet recipes

This is a traditional Andhra and tamilnadu recipe which can be prepared during festivals. It can also be made as prasadam during Navratri celebrations.Appalu is a traditional Andhra sweet made with rice flour and are very soft and not very sweet. It is very similar to Kerala style unniyappam. The main difference is that Kerala style unniyappam uses jaggery and banana, and rava appalu uses sugar instead.It's easy to make and very delicious.

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Preparation Time: 15 mins
Cooking Time: 15 mins
Total Time: 30 Mins
Serves: 4
Cuisine: Indian Recipe,Andhra,Tamil Nadu
Course: Dessert
Category:  Vegetarian Recipe
Level of cooking: easy
Taste:  crunchy and Sweet

Ingredients:

1/2 cup rava / sooji / semolina
1 cup water
1/4 cup sugar
3 tbsp  Dry coconut ( grated optional)
1/4 tbsp cardamom powder
1 tbsp ghee / clarified butter
ghee / oil for Deep frying
food color optional(pinch)

Preparation:

Heat a heavy bottomed pan, dry roast the sooji for 3 mins or till the nice aroma comes from the rava and keep aside.Heat water in the same pan to rolled boiling. Then add the roasted sooji in water little by little and keep stirring without any lumps.Then add sugar and stir well. Finally add the grated coconut, ghee and cardamom powder.Stir together and cook closed with a lid for 5 minutes in low flame.Wait until it becomes thick dough. Then turn off the flame and allow the dough to cool down.

Method:

Once it becomes hand resisting heat,knead the dough lightly and make small lemon size balls.Meanwhile heat the oil to fry the appams.Once the oil heated, keep it in medium flame and shape the lemon size balls by pressing with palms and fry in oil till it becomes golden brown.Fry equally on both sides.Then drain the oil completely and place it in a kitchen tissue to absorb the excess oil.

Tips:

• You can skip the food colour. Traditionally its not added.


• One cup of water is enough for ½ cup rava. No need to add more water.


• Dry roast the sooji if it is double roasted as well.Don't burn the rava while roasting roast in sim only.


• Make sure there is no lumps in the dough. If there is any lumps , knead it well.


• While kneading, it will be little sticky. So grease your palms with ghee and knead.


• After making the dough to balls, press gently to make appams.


• Fry the appams to golden brown, if it burns that will taste bitter. So fry in medium flame and completely drain the oil.

Nutrition values and calories of rava appam:

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