Banana Fritters

Pazha bajji in tamil or pazham pori in malayalam is typically a kerala dish. It is a very simple yet delightful snack to be paired with a cup of tea. It requires minimal ingredients and can be made as a quickie when you have unexpected guests. It tastes best with nenthram pazham but you could also do it with a regular banana.

Ingredients

• 1 banana - I used nendram pazham
• 1 tsp of salt
• 1 tsp of turmeric powder
• 1 tbl of sugar(adjust according to banana's sweetness)
• 1/2 cup maida or all purpose flour

Method

• Cut the bananas into the desired shape(round or vertical). Traditionally they are slit vertically.
• Mix the rest of the ingredients with enough water to make a batter that is little thicker than dosa batter.
• Dip the bananas in the batter and deep fry it in oil

Serving suggestions

• Drizzle with some honey and relish it hot

Aapam-Coconut Milk

This is a repost from my first blog post which was long long ago.Rethinking, it is actually not so long ago.Its just that I took a short break soon after my blog start ..crazy me !!!!

The reason for the repost being the combo event by Pari

Coming to the combo-Aapam and Coconut milk,isnt that a lovely one?. Infact I'm going to make that tonight :D

Ingredients

• 1 cup of boiled rice
• 1 cup of raw rice
• 1 cup of grated coconut(Can be replaced by shredded coconut)
• 1tsp of urad dal
• 1tsp of fenugreek seeds(vendhayam)
• Crystal Salt
• Baking soda(Soda uppu)

Pre-cooking

• Soak all the ingredients with the grated coconut for nearly 4-5 hours.

Method

• Grind the mixture to a nearly smooth batter,little bit coarse is fine.
• The consistency should be between idli and dosa batter.
• Add the salt and keep it for fermentation.
• After the batter is fermented , this could take overnight, add the baking soda and mix thoroughly.
• Take the appam pan , grease it with oil using a paper towel or cloth and pour the batter.
• Spread it such that it is thin in the edges and thicker in the middle.
• Keep in medium flame and cover the lid.
• After a few minutes open it once and check if the sides are roasted.
• Once the sides are roasted and the center portion is cooked your aapam is ready !

Coconut Milk


Ingredients

• 1/2 coconut
• jaggery or sugar to taste(I used jaggery)
• Cardamon

Method

• 
  
  Grate the coconut and add it to the blender/mixie with little water.
• Mash it well,take out and extract the juice.
• Put in the smashed coconut again into the blender with water and extract the juice again.
• Repeat this process 2  times to get the coconut milk.
• Take the required amount of jaggery and smash it into fine powder. 
• Add this to the coconut milk and mix well until all lumps are gone. 
• If you are using sugar you can add just like adding sugar to any milk. 
• Finally peel cardamon and add it to the mixture.

Tips

• If your batter is thin you will not be able to get proper aapams.

Aapam with coconut milk

I am really surprised that I'm writing my first post on my food blog. I had once been a girl who didnt know how to pour dosa batter in a tawa :) . Gone are those days.

Now I have all the time on earth to try different recipes and thus spicy lounge was born !

Aapam gets the credit to be my first recipe.

Aapam

Ingredients

• 1 cup of boiled rice
• 1 cup of raw rice
• 1 cup of grated coconut(Can be replaced by shredded coconut)
  
• 1tsp of urad dal
• 1tsp of fenugreek seeds(vendhayam)
• Crystal Salt
• Baking soda(Soda uppu)
  

Method

• Soak all the ingredients with the grated coconut for nearly 4-5 hours. The more you soak the easier it is to grind.
• Grind the mixture to a nearly smooth batter,little bit coarse is fine.The batter should be thick. The consistency should be between idli & dosa batter.
  
• Add the salt and keep it for fermentation.If you are in the US you could keep the batter in the conventional oven set in the OFF mode.Do not forget to close the vessel else it will get dried up in the heat. Also use a light weighted vessel, preferably plastic.
• After the batter is fermented , this could take overnight, add the baking soda and mix thoroughly.
• Take the appam pan , grease it with oil using a paper towel or cloth and pour the batter.
• Spread it such that it is thin in the edges and thicker in the middle.
• Keep in medium flame & cover the lid.
• After a few minutes open it once and check if the sides are roasted.
• Once the sides are roasted and in the center portion is cooked your aapam is ready !

Coconut milk

Ingredients

• 1/2 coconut
• jaggery or sugar to taste
• Cardamon
  

Method

• Grate the coconut and add it to the blender/mixie with little water.
  
• Mash it well,take out and extract the juice.
• Put in the smashed coconut again into the blender with water and extract the juice again.
• Repeat this process 2-3  times to get the coconut milk.
• Do not add too much water that will spoil the taste.
• Take the required amount of jaggery and smash it into fine powder. Add this to the coconut milk and mix well until all lumps are gone. 
• If you are using sugar you can add just like adding sugar to any milk.
  
• Finally peel cardamon and add it to the mixture.
• Your coconut milk is ready to serve.