Cheeppappam

This is a Kerala preparation that I used to like as a child. Thinking of preparing a snack to take for our trip, suddenly I remembered this and made.

 

Ingredients:

-           -  2 cups rice flour

-            -  1 cup grated coconut

-            -  ½ cup coconut milk (optional)

-           --  ½ tsp cumin seeds

-            -  ½ tsp sesame seeds

-            -  Salt to taste

-           -   Water

-            -  Oil for frying

Instructions:

-          -  Roasted the grated coconut till it turns light brown. Allow it to cool and grind into a rough powder

-          -  Roast the rice flour on slow fire till the raw smell goes.

-          -  Mix together the rice flour, coconut powder, cumin seeds, sesame seeds, and salt (coconut milk optional) with water and knead into a stiff dough.

-          -  Make small balls of gooseberry size, flatten them out between the palms and make an impression on one side with a fork.

-          -  Fry them till golden brown.
-     -  Cool and store. It is a nice tea time snack.

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