Vattayappam (Rice cake steamed)

Vattayappam is a typical Kerala sweet dish.  Most of the malayali house would make this for all the festive occasion. It’s sweet, light and above all healthy as it is steamed.

The recipe  was given by my  mother-in-law’s.  So, it is tried and tested for years and it comes out really well. 

 

Ingredient

 

Roasted raw rice flour – 250gm

Coconut grated – 1 cup

Jeera powder  – ½ teaspoon

Sugar – 100gm (powder)

Salt – ½ tsp

Ghee – 1tbsp

Water/coconut milk/milk – ½ cup

Raisins & cashew – for garnishing

Yeast Ferment:

Dry yeast  - 1 tsp

Sugar – 1tsp

Lukewarm water – ¼ cups

 

Method

1.            Mix yeast with sugar. Pour lukewarm water, mix and keep aside to ferment (until froth appears on the surface).

2.            Grind coconut with a little water.

3.            Mix rice flour, grind coconut, jeera and sugar powder  

4.            Now add water/coconut milk/milk and  salt and mix well.

5.            Grease a cake dish or round bottomed aluminium vessel well with ghee.

6.            Pour the batter into it up to the half way mark.

7.            Decorate by placing raisins & cashew’s on top

8.            Keep it in an iddli steamer and cook for 20 minutes.

9.            Take it out from the steamer and cool a little.

10.        Loosen the sides with a knife and cut it into pieces.