Wheat banana appam | Banana appam recipe

Wheat banana appam is a sweet recipe made of wheat flour, bananas fried in oil or ghee. This is a simple yet delicious sweet appam, deep fried. This wheat banana appam can be prepared using a paniyaram kadai also for a healthier option.

Festival season is coming around, so I thought of posting some quick, tasty sweet and snacks recipes, which you can make simply at home. Let us start with this wheat banana appam for upcoming Gokulashtami. Follow this same recipe for making rice flour appam/paniyaram also.

Use only well ripe bananas for this wheat banana appam. If your bananas are very sweeter then you can skip adding jaggery or sugar. Bananas are the highlighting ingredient here and a famous snack in Kerala. I used oil for frying, you can use ghee mixed oil or fully ghee for an even tastier version. I used four bananas for a cup of wheat flour, hence my appams look lighter in color. Increase wheat flour and reduce banana quantity for a darker version. Both ways it tastes great and yum.

For other sweet recipes: Moong kheer

For other banana recipes: Honey banana sandwich, Musk banana milkshake

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Wheat banana appam | Banana appam recipe

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Wheat banana appam is a sweet recipe made of wheat flour, bananas fried in oil or ghee. This is a simple yet delicious sweet appam, deep fried.

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Prep Time 10 minutes mins

Cook Time 30 minutes mins

Total Time 40 minutes mins

Course Dessert, Snack

Cuisine Indian

Servings 4

Calories 340 kcal

Ingredients

  

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Ingredients:

• Oil to deep fry
• 1 cup whole wheat flour
• 4 ripe bananas suit your taste
• 2 tbsp rice flour
• 1 pinch baking soda optional
• ¼ tsp salt
• 2 tbsp jaggery or sugar
• 1 tbsp ghee
• ½ cup water or as required to make thick batter

Instructions

 

Recipe to make wheat banana appam:

How to make appam batter:

• In a big mixing bowl, take wheat flour.
• Add rice flour into the bowl. This rice flour is to give crisp body to the appams. You can omit this if you want completely soft appam.
• Use one pinch of baking soda for soft appams.
• Add salt. Don’t avoid adding salt. You may wonder about salt’s need in sweet recipe. For any sweet dish, add a pinch of salt to enhance the taste of sweet. This is a tip from my mom.
• Now add mashed bananas. Mix all the ingredients.
• Add jaggery powder or sugar as per taste. Two tbsp of sweet will be enough for this measurement.
• Add ½ tsp cardamom powder.
• You can add a tbsp of ghee for rich smell. If you are frying in oil don’t add ghee.
• Pour some half cup of water and make a thick batter. Batter consistency is like vada batter. Add only enough water needed. If your banana puree is enough to make batter, reduce water quantity.

How to fry wheat banana appam:

• In a frying pan, heat oil to medium temperature. Do not heat to very high temperature else appams will become dark outside and half-cooked inside.
• Using a spoon scoop out some batter and drop it into hot oil carefully. You can damp your fingers and drop like vadas.
• Fry 4 to 6 appams in a batch.
• Leave undisturbed for few minutes until sizzling sound settles down.
• When bottom sides of appams are cooked, they come up one by one.
• This is the time to flip to other side.
• One full batch takes ten minutes to cook fully.
• When bubbles settle down and when you get nice brown color strain out appams using metal strainer. Put them in tissue paper. If you do this way you will get round ball like appams.
• I like to remove extra oil from my appams so I squeeze out using an extra spoon. Just press the appam with a spoon as shown. This way you can easily remove extra oil, but will get flat appams.
• Serve hot as a snack.

Notes

Tips/notes: 1) If using paniyaram kadai, apply oil in the paniyaram mould and pour the batter. Cook/steam appams like paniyarams. 2) Add coconut pieces in the batter if you like.

Nutrition

Calories: 340kcal

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Recipe to make wheat banana appam:

How to make appam batter:

• In a big mixing bowl, take wheat flour.
• Add rice flour with wheat flour. This rice flour is to give crisp body to the appams. You can omit this if you want completely soft appam.

• Use one pinch of baking soda for soft appams.
• Add salt. Don’t avoid adding salt. You may wonder about salt’s need in a sweet recipe. For any sweet dish, add a pinch of salt to enhance the taste of sweet. This is a tip from my mom.

• Now add mashed bananas.

• Add ½ tsp cardamom powder.
• Mix all the ingredients.

• Add jaggery powder or sugar as per taste. Two tbsp of sweet will be enough for this measurement.
• You can add a tbsp of ghee for a rich smell. If you are frying in oil don’t add ghee.

• Pour some half cup of water and make a thick batter. Batter consistency is like vada batter. Add only enough water needed. If your banana puree is enough to make batter, reduce water quantity.

How to fry wheat banana appam:

• In a frying pan, heat oil to medium temperature. Do not heat to very high temperature else appams will become dark outside and half-cooked inside.
• Using a spoon scoop out some batter and drop it into hot oil carefully. You can damp your fingers and drop like vadas.

• Fry 4 to 6 appams in a batch.
• Leave undisturbed for few minutes until sizzling sound settles down.

• When bottom sides of appams are cooked, they come up one by one as shown.
• This is the time to flip to other side.

• One full batch takes ten minutes to cook fully.
• When bubbles settle down and when you get nice brown color strain out appams using metal strainer. Put them in tissue paper. If you do this way you will get round ball like appams.

• I like to remove extra oil from my appams so I squeeze out using an extra spoon. Just press the appam with a spoon as shown. This way you can easily remove extra oil but will get flat appams.

• Serve hot as a snack.

Tips/notes:

• If using paniyaram kadai, apply oil in the paniyaram mould and pour the batter. Cook/steam appams like paniyarams.
• Add coconut pieces in the batter if you like.