Sweet Appam Recipe With Wheat Flour - Instant Wheat flour appam with banana

Usually we make instant sweet appam with wheat flour / godhumai maavu inippu appam / wheat appam with banana for Ganesh Chaturthi, Gokulashtami, Diwali and Karthigai deepam. It can be made with or without paniyaram pan. Being a calorie conscious women, I always make sweet appam in paniyaram pan to reduce oil consumption. But yesterday I purposefully tried this deep fried version to post in my blog. I made it with wheat flour, banana and jaggery asking the recipe from my MIL. It was awesome. I couldn’t resist myself stopping with one or two.

My MIL usually make this instant appam using maida, banana and sugar for our guests as evening snacks. It comes out super soft, spongy and fluffy. We make this instant wheat flour appam on Ganesh chaturthi evening and offer Lord Ganesh. If you have the practice of offering appam for Vinayagar chaturthi, do try this one. U will love its softness and taste. Ok, lets see how to make this sweet appam recipe using wheat flour, banana and jaggery with step by step pictures and video ! I have shown 2 methods in video – Deep fried appam without paniyaram pan and appam in paniyaram pan.

Wheat flour appam recipe

Sweet appam recipe using wheat flour, jaggery for Ganesh chaturthi, Karthigai deepam and Gokulashtami

Cuisine: Indian

Category: Sweet

Serves: 7 nos

Prep time: 5 Minutes

Cook time: 5 Minutes

Total time: 10 Minutes

INGREDIENTS

1 cup – 250ml

Wheat flour – 1 cup
Fully Ripe banana – 1 no ( You can use yelakki/poovazhai or rasthali banana)
Grated jaggery – 1/2 cup ( add 2 tbsp for more sweetness)
Rice flour – 1.5 tbsp
Cooking soda – a big pinch
Salt – a pinch
Cardamom seeds – 2 no ( crushed)
Cooking oil – to deep fry
Water – as needed

HOW TO MAKE SWEET APPAM – METHOD

In a wide bowl,take all the ingredients except oil and water. Mash the ripen banana and add to the flour. Add the required water and make a thick batter.The consistency of batter should be like thick idli batter. It should be pourable.

Heat oil for deep frying. Use less oil to get a nice round shape. Take a small curved ladle and pour a ladleful full of batter. Make one or two at a time. Appam should rise slowly from the bottom to top. This is the correct heating point. It helps the appam to cook evenly. If the oil is very hot, appam will brown outside and it doesn’t get cooked inside. So keep the oil at right heating point. First check with a drop of batter and proceed further. Pour a small ladle of batter and splash the oil over the top of appam while it cooks.

As soon as the color of appam turns golden brown, flip it and cook the other side till golden brown. Remove & drain in a tissue paper.
You can also make this appam using paniyaram pan to use less oil. Please watch the video. I have shown in detail.
Sweet appam is ready to serve.Enjoy !

Note

For variations,u can add maida and sugar instead of wheat flour and jaggery.
U can also make spicy version by adding finely chopped onions, ginger, curry leaves, coriander leaves & green chillies along with hing. It tastes great.
Do not add more cooking soda. Less than a pinch would be enough. Adding more soda makes the appam absorb more oil. Sometimes appam disintegrates in oil if Soda goes more.
Banana gives a super soft, spongy texture to the appam. Never skip it.
It stays soft and good for hours. So yoou can make them in advance too.

Make this super soft and delicious appam & offer GOD !

Here is the appam after a bite by me ::P