Ingredients

• 1 cup - maida (all-purpose flour)
• 1/2 cup - rice flour
• 1/2 tsp - cardamom powder (or powder 3 to 4 cardamom seeds)
• 1/2 cup - jaggery, powdered

How to Make Low Calorie Appam

• Add the jaggery to approx. 1/4 cup of water.
• If you have trouble breaking the jaggery, placing them in the water for few minutes - this will help you break it down easily. Using hands or back of a spoon, make sure that there are no lumps.
• Sift the flours together, add the cardamom powder and mix well.
• Now slowly using a strainer, strain the jaggery liquid in to the flour mixture.
• Stir well, add some more liquid if needed to make a thick batter.
• Make sure the batter is lump free.
• Heat the paniyaram pan/puff pan.
• In each section, add about 1/4 tsp of oil.
• Once the oil is hot, drop spoonful of the batter in the pan.
• Once browned in the bottom turn to the other side.
• Repeat the same. Serve immediately.
• Recipe courtesy: Dhivya Karthik
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