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

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.