Banana Appam | Banana Paddu | Baalehannina Gundupongala
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Recipe type: Breakfast
Cuisine: Indian
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Serves: 2-3 people
 
Sweet and delicious banana appam or banana paddu, a super easy dish for festivals
Ingredients
  • 1 Cup atta/whole wheat flour
  • 2 Tbsp rice flour
  • 1½ big ripe bananas
  • ¼ Cup grated jaggery
  • 3-4 cardamom
  • 1 pinch salt
  • 1 pinch baking soda
  • 2 Tbsp yogurt
  • 1 Cup water
Method
  1. Chop bananas roughly and add them to a bowl
  2. Mash the bananas lightly with a fork
  3. Add powdered or grated jaggery
  4. Mix well till jaggery melts
  5. Next add atta/whole wheat flour and rice flour
  6. Sprinkle powdered cardamom
  7. Also add a pinch each of salt and baking soda
  8. Start mixing slowly
  9. Pour water a little at a time and make a batter
  10. Lastly add little yogurt and mix lightly
  11. Heat a paddu or appam pan
  12. Add a few drops of oil into paddu hole
  13. Pour small ladlefuls of batter leaving some gap at the top
  14. Cover and cook!
  15. Roast on low-medium flame till it is golden and crisp on the underside
  16. Flip and roast for some more time till it is cooked through
  17. Serve immediately with mango pickle and ghee!
Notes
Ripe bananas are best used up this way

Do not overbeat the mixture, paddu/appam will not turn out light and airy with a thick beaten out batter

You can also lightly melt jaggery with little water, cool, strain and then add to the batter!

Do NOT be tempted to roast on high flame, you will get burnt paddu
Recipe by Food Of Interest at https://foodofinterest.com/banana-appam/