Kerala Parippuvada Recipe

Parippuvada is a traditional evening snack in Kerala.  Parippuvada is prepared from Toor Dal/ Chana dal.  This dish is a mouth watering evening snack along with tea and a small banana.  Here is the recipe to make our mouth watering snack at our own kitchen. Let's start!

Ingredients:

Chana dal / Toor dal/
thuvaraparippu                            - 1 cup

Ginger                                         - 1 inch piece (finely chopped)

Shallots/ small onion                  - 10-15 numbers (finely chopped)

Green chillies                             -  2 - 3 numbers (as per spice requirements, finely chopped)

Curry leaves                              -  1 Sprig

Fennel seeds / perumjeerakam - 1/4 teaspoon

Salt to taste

Oil to fry, preferably coconut oil

Preparation:

> Wash and soak chana dal/ toor dal/ thuvaraparippu for 2 - 3 hours.

> Drain the water completely

> Grind / crush the soaked and drained dal ' thuvaraparippu to a coarse paste without adding water.  Don't make a fine paste.

> Add chopped ginger, shallots, curry leaves, fennel seeds, green chillies and salt and mix well

> Wet your hand and roll out small portions of the mixture  and flatten each ball in your palm.

> Heat oil in a pan for deep frying and fry the vada till it becomes golden brown color or if you like extra crispy vada, then fry till it become dark brown color.

> Drain excess oil on a tissue paper, serve hot


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Unniyappam / Sweet Kuzhipaniyaram

Unniyappam is a sweet snack in Kerala… In Tamil Nadu, it’s known as Kuzhipaniyaram…. I wish to introduce a very simple preparation method of Unniyappam today…. So, you can also prepare yummy Unniyappam or Kuzhipaniyaram in your kitchen in hygiene condition without adding any preservatives….

Ingredients:

Rice flour -------------------------------------------- 1 ½ cup

Wheat flour ----------------------------------------- ½ cup

Banana (palayamthodan pazham) ------------ 3 numbers

Cardamom ----------------------------------------- 4 -5 numbers

Jaggery (sarkkara or vellam) ------------------- 250 gram to 300 gram (according to the sweet requirement)

Coconut bits (cut into small pieces) ------------ ½ cup

Black sesame seeds ------------------------------- 1-2 tablespoon

Ghee ------------------------------------------------- as needed for frying

Oil ---------------------------------------------------- as needed for frying

Milk -------------------------------------------------- as needed

 

Preparation:

Ø Make a smooth paste of banana (cheru pazham) and cardamom seeds in a mixer grinder and keep it aside

Ø Heat a pan, pour ghee and fry coconut bits till it become light golden and add sesame seeds and fry that too and keep it aside to cool down

Ø In a vessel, put jaggery and ½ to one cup water and boil it to melt and allow it to boil and then strain it and keep it aside

Ø In a vessel take rice flour, wheat flour, banana paste, fried coconut and sesame seeds and mix well

Ø Add melted and strained jaggery water into the mix and mix well (pour the jaggery water as per the requirement of sweetness, sweetness may vary in different jaggery)

Ø Mix the batter in the consistency of idli batter and close the lid tightly and keep it aside for 1-2 hours

Ø Check the consistency of the batter, if it became more thick, add some boiled and cooled milk and adjust the consistency

Ø Then take the unniyappam or kuzhipaniyaram pan and pour oil and ghee to each pit and allow it to heat

Ø When the oil and ghee mix become hot, reduce flame to medium

Ø Drop the batter into the pan in each pit

Ø Keep turning the appam in between till it become dark golden brown colour in both the sides

Ø Home-made unniyappam or kuzhipaniyaram is ready to serve

 

Notes:

·        With this quantity of batter, we can prepare 30-35 numbers of unniyappam or kuzhipaniyaram

·        We can use small banana (palayamthodan or poovan pazham) as per availability

·        If you need more crispy version of unniyappam use 2 cups of rice powder instead of adding rice and wheat together

·        Check the sweetness while adding jaggery

I thought to prepare unniyappam months back and bought pan and kept as it is for months…. The reason behind this was my anxiety about the preparation and I thought its a tedious as well as time consuming task…. But preparation of unniyappam was very easy when I followed my recipe… More over my husband loved to eat the home made and tasty unniyappam…. I am sure you can also prepare the same in your kitchen and serve with love to all…J

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Madakku Dosa

‘Madakku Dosa’ is a very yummy evening snack for children…. I remember my school days… my mother prepared madakku dosa, as evening snack for us…. She served hot dosa with love… I really miss those golden days in my life….

I am sure that, this will be a great idea for those mothers, who are thinking to give something different to eat for their children in the evening, especially children return home after school hours…

This recipe is very easy to prepare… So let’s try this out…

 

Ingredients:

1.      Maida / All-purpose flour ----------------- 1 cup

2.      Grated coconut ------------------------------1/2  to  1 cup

3.      Salt ---------------------------------------------- to taste

4.      Sugar -------------------------------------------- 2 -4 tablespoon

5.      Water -------------------------------------------- as needed

 

Preparation:

1.      Take the maida or all-purpose flour in a vessel and add salt and mix and then add water and make a batter in the consistency of dosa batter

2.      Adjust the salt according to your taste

3.      For filling, in another vessel, add grated coconut and sugar and mix well and keep it aside

4.      Heat the thava and pour one ladle (spoon) of dough and spread like dosa (thin)

5.      Allow it to cook one side well, and if you wish to turn it and cook the other side, you can.. otherwise put 2 tablespoon of filling inside the spread and fold

6.      Take the madakku dosa from the thava and have it hot

 

You can use wheat powder instead of maida and prepare the same.  Here, I  did the original madakku dosa …

 

I am sure that you will be ready to experiment this easy madakku dosa in your kitchen… Enjoy cooking and the taste!

 

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Avalose Podi (Avalose Powder)

Avalose podi (powder) is a traditional kerala snack… This snack can be eaten either as avalose podi, with sugar or banana or as avalose unda (ball)…. Here, I wish to introduce the easiest method of preparation of avalose podi in this page….

Ingredients:

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<![if !supportLists]>4.     <![endif]>Cardamom powder -------------------- ½ teaspoon

Preparation:

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It can be served with sugar or with banana…..

If you wish to prepare avalose unda (balls), take jaggery and make a thick water of jaggery and sieve the same and pour the thick jaggery water into the avalose podi (hot), add 2 teaspoon lemon juice and mix well and make gooseberry sized balls…. Avalose balls (avalose unda) is ready ....

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