Steamed rice cake recipe/kerala vattayappam recipe
VATTAYAPPAM recipe / SOFT FLUFFY RICE CAKE / STEAMED RICE CAKE
METHOD – 1
INGREDIENTS
- Raw rice – 3/4 cup
- Cooked rice – 1 1/2 tbsp
- Freshly grated coconut – 1/4 cup
- Sugar – 4 or 5 tbsp or as per taste
- instant dry Yeast – ½ tsp [ no need to activate ]
- Coconut water or plain water as needed to grind thin water
- Salt a pinch
- Ghee or coconut oil for greasing the steaming plate
PREPARATION
- Soak rice for 3 – 4 hrs. Grind the soaked rice + coconut + cooked rice+ yeast + sugar + salt to a fine thin batter by adding coconut water or plain water .
METHOD
Take the batter in a big vessel and mix well .
Keep aside for 4 hrs for fermentation.
After fermentation , give a mix .
Grease a steel plate or cake tin with ghee or coconut oil.
Pour the batter in the plate upto half level and steam for about 15 to 20 minutes till done .
Remove from steamer and keep aside to cool.
Loosen the sides with knife.
Remove it on a plate and cut in diamond or triangle shape .
Serve it.
METHOD – 2
INGREDIENTS
- Rava – 2 tbsp
- Yeast -1/2 tsp + sugar- ½ tsp
- A pinch of salt
- Fine rice flour – 2 cups
- Freshly grated Coconut [grounded] – 2 cups
- Sugar powdered – ½ cup or ¾ as per the sweetness you want
- Ghee or coconut oil for greasing
PREPARATION
Take ½ cup of luke warm water in a bowl add yeast + ½ tsp sugar. Mix well and allow it to rise.
Cook rava in 2 ½ cup of water , till it becomes loose and soft. Allow it to cool.
Grind the coconut with little water and keep aside.
Grease a cake tin or steel plate with coconut oil and keep aside.
METHOD
Take a pan , add the rice flour in it .
Now add the rava mixture + yeast + grounded coconut .
Mix all well and make a batter of medium consistency.[idli batter consistency]
Cover and keep aside for 3 hrs.
After 3 hrs add the sugar powder + salt.
Mix well .
Pour the batter in the greased plated.
Steam it for 20 minutes.
NOTE
- It has to be steamed like we steam dhokla in a idli cooker.
- ****You can also use appam batter to make this ,just add sugar pwdr and eno – refer here –Homemade appam
- Do the tooth prick test after 12 minutes to check if it is steamed well.
- You can add cardamom pwdr while adding sugar.
- You can also garnish with raisins and cashew roasted in ghee .
- In some parts of Kerala they give it a variation by adding jeera /shallots /or garlic while grinding instead of sugar.
- Even Mangalorean sannas or goan rice cakes [ less sweet ] are prepared somewhat in the same way but they are steamed in small steel bowls and served with non veg gravies.
- Instead of yeast we can add toddy / fermented coconut water.
- It is served as snack or breakfast.
- You can reduce the sugar quantity and serve it with any non veg gravy, kurma, and stew.
VARIATION – made the below appam using remaining appam batter –
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