Oats Sweet Paniyaram / Oats Paniyaram / Oats Appam

Oats Sweet Paniyaram is a delicious and healthy snack dish. The combination of oats, banana, wheat flour and jaggery in this recipe, helps to increases the nutritive value of the dish (fibre, protein and iron) as well as taste.

I learnt this recipe from my friend Champa Mallya. Special thanks to her as my son Kavin, who is a fussy eater; like this very much. Sometimes he wants this healthy paniyaram for his school snack box as well.

Try this; make your kids eat healthy snack without any fuss!

Ingredients:

Oats - 1 cup (heaped)
Wheat flour – 1 cup
Rice flour –  ½ cup
Maida / All purpose flour - 2 tbsp(optional)
Curd  - 2 tbsp
Bananas – 2 medium sized
Cardamom powder – ½ tsp
Grated coconut - 2 tbsp
Baking soda – a pinch
Salt – a pinch
Jaggery - 1 cup(powdered) / 2 blocks

Karupatti (palm jaggery) Paniyaram / Sweet Paniyaram Using Palm Jaggery / கருப்பட்டி பணியாரம்

Karupatti paniyaram is a traditional sweet made during festive seasons using in Southern India especially in Tamilnadu.

In this recipe for sweetness karupaati vellam (palm jaggery) is used instead of sugar. 

Karupatti vellam or panai vellam is made from the sap extract of Palm Trees. The process of making palm jaggery, does not involve any chemical agents and it is also rich in calcium, iron and other vitamins and minerals. 

Palm jaggery is a healthy alternative for sugar to increase sweetness in many desserts and coffee too. 

Include this in your daily routine for a healthy living.

Sweet kuzhipaniyaram / Banana kuzhipaniyaram

Kuzhipaniyaram is a traditional south indian snack variety. This can either be made sweet or spicy.  Here what I have given is the sweet version! It is known by many names Unniappam (malayalam), Guntha Ponganalu (Telugu).

Ingredients

Wheat flour – ½ cup

Maida – ½ cup

Rice flour – ¼ cup

Ripped Bananas – 3 medium sized

Cardamom powder – ½ tsp

Dry ginger powder – ¾ tsp (optional)

Cashew nuts – 5 to 6 (broken)

Baking soda – a pinch

Salt – a pinch

Jaggery  - ¾ cup

Water –  (to  prepare batter)

Directions

In a pan, mix jaggery and water and  boil till the jaggery melts and filter to remove impurities if any. Keep aside. 

In a separate pan, mash the bananas; start adding all the ingredients except jaggery syrup and water. 

Pour filtered jaggery syrup  over the flour and banana mixture to prepare a batter (the batter should be in semi thick consistency like dosa batter). 

Add water if necessary.  Heat the kuzhipaniyaram pan; add 1 to 2 tsp oil or ghee into each hole.

Pour the batter in each hole and allow to cook in the medium flame. Turn on the otherside using a tooth pick or a stick.  Allow to cook till both sides turn golden brown colour. Serve hot. 

Note:

If you don’t have kuzhipaniyaram pan just deep fry . 

Heat oil in a pan, drop spoonfuls of batter in the oil and fry till it gets golden brown and crisp (cook this in medium flame).  

Remove from oil and place on a tissue to drain out the excess oil.  Serve hot. 

Dry Fruits Appam / Dates Paniyaram / Dry Fruits Paniyaram

This is a South Indian snack made in a nutritious and healthy way.

Ingredients:

Wheat flour - ½ cup
Maida or All purpose flour - ½ cup
Dates, cashew, almond, pista paste - ½ cup
Cardamom powder- 1 tsp
Crushed jaggery - ½ cup
Desiccated coconut- 1 tbsp
Oil - For deep frying

Directions:

Soak the nuts and dates in water for nearly ½ hour and grind into a paste.   Keep aside. 

Soak the jaggery in half cup of water till it dissolves in it.  Filter that and keep aside.

Take a bowl add dates nuts paste, wheat flour, maida, cardamom powder and desiccated coconut.  Mix well.

Pour jaggery water over the flour mixture to make into  batter (the batter should be in semi thick consistency like dosa batter).

Heat the kuzhipaniyaram pan; add 1 to 2 tsp oil or ghee into each hole.

Pour the batter in each hole and allow to cook in the medium flame.

Turn on the other side using a tooth pick or a stick.

Allow to cook till both sides turn golden brown colour.  Serve hot.

If you don't have Kuzhipaniyaram pan, try this

Heat the oil for deep frying.  When the oil is really hot, drop spoonfuls of batter in the hot oil. Fry till it gets golden brown and crisp.

Remove from oil and place on a tissue or on a vessel with tiny holes to drain out the excess oil.

Serve Hot.