Description
A delicious and healthy South Indian snack made from semolina, spices, and yogurt.
Ingredients
Scale
- 2 tablespoons oil (plus for frying)
- ½ teaspoon brown mustard seeds
- ½ teaspoon cumin seeds
- 1 teaspoon Bengal gram (chana dal)
- ¼ teaspoon asafetida (hing)
- 10–12 curry leaves
- 1 teaspoon finely chopped ginger
- 1 teaspoon finely chopped green chilies
- 1 dry red chili (broken into small pieces)
- 4–5 whole cashew nuts
- 1 cup fine rava (semolina, sooji)
- ½ cup plain yogurt (dahi, curd)
- 2 tablespoons grated carrots
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon ENO fruit salt (or 1 tsp baking soda + 1 tsp lime juice)
Instructions
- Heat oil in a pan over medium-high heat.
- Once the oil is hot, add mustard seeds, cumin seeds, and chana dal and fry for 5-6 seconds.
- Add asafetida, curry leaves, ginger, green chilies, dry red chili, and cashew nuts, and fry until cashew nuts turn slightly brown. Stir frequently while frying.
- Reduce the heat to low.
- Add rava to the pan and roast it until slightly browned (3-4 minutes), stirring continuously to avoid burning.
- Remove the pan from the heat and let the rava cool down completely.
- Transfer the cooled roasted rava to a large mixing bowl.
- Add yogurt and carrot to the bowl and mix well.
- Add ½ cup of water and mix well.
- Cover the bowl with a lid and keep it aside for 15 minutes.
- The rava will absorb the water during the resting time and the batter will become thick.
- Add 2-3 tablespoons of water to the batter and mix well. We need an idli-like batter to make the appe.
- Add ENO fruit salt and salt and mix well.
- Heat an appe pan over medium heat.
- Add ¼ teaspoon of oil to each cavity.
- Using a spoon, pour the batter into each cavity. Do not overfill.
- Cover the pan with a lid and cook until the appe are nicely browned from the bottom.
- Flip using a spoon and cook uncovered from the other side for 2-3 minutes.
- Remove the rava appe from the pan and serve hot.
Notes
- Ensure to stir continuously while roasting the rava to prevent burning.
- The batter should be similar in consistency to idli batter.
- Experiment with different spices and vegetables in the batter for variations.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 20 minutes
- Category: Snack
- Method: Pan-fried
- Cuisine: Indian
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 2 appe
- Calories: 200
- Sugar: 2g
- Sodium: 300mg
- Fat: 10g
- Saturated Fat: 1g
- Unsaturated Fat: 6g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 28g
- Fiber: 2g
- Protein: 6g
- Cholesterol: 0mg