How to Cooking To Try At Home Kinnathappam

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Kinnathappam. Kinnathappam or steamed plate cake is a traditional Kerala dessert prepared by Muslims during Ramadan. This plate cake is soft, wiggly and tasty. You can also make it for usual days to enjoy it after your meal.

Anyway, one statement I can make without much controversy is that this is an authentic South Indian dessert.

Kinnathappam, which can be translated to english as 'kinnam' which means 'plate' and 'appam' means.

Kinnathappam, super fine roasted rice flour mixed with thick coconut milk, sweetened with sugar and enriched with ghee(Ghee is a Sanskrit word for a clarified butter.

You can have Kinnathappam using 7 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Kinnathappam

  1. It’s 1/2 cup of Basmati Rice -.

  2. You need of Coconut Milk - as needed ( I used less than 2 cups).

  3. Prepare 3/4 cup of Sugar needed.

  4. Prepare 1 of Egg.

  5. Prepare 1 tsp of Cardamom.

  6. Prepare 1 cup of Bengal gram dal Cooked.

  7. It’s of Ghee greasing for the bowl.

Kerala Style Kinnathappam is a delicious filling snack very popular in Kerala and surrounding areas.

Kinnam means 'plate' and appam means 'cake' and hence the snack is termed 'cake in a plate'.

Kerala Style Kinnathappam is unique and tasty with fried rice flour blended in thick coconut milk, sweetened, enriched with butter and finally steamed in pans.

Kinnathappam is a traditional Kerala 'palaharam'.

Kinnathappam instructions

  1. Wash and Soak basmati rice for 3 hours. Now drain them and add it to the blender. Pour in coconut milk slowly and grind them to a smooth batter. Pour the batter into a bowl..

  2. In the same blender add egg, sugar and cardamom powder. Blend them so they are combined. Pour this into the batter bowl..

  3. You can adjust the consistency of the batter by adding more coconut milk. If you take the back of the mixing ladle and draw a line using your fingers, the line should stay there. But the batter on both sides of the line should not be too thick..

  4. Grease a steel bowl with ghee.now strain the batter and pour it into the steel bowl. Add the cooked gram dal to the batter..

  5. Place this over a pot of boiling water. Cover and cook for 20 to 25 mins. You can press the top of pudding with your fingers to see whether it is cooked..

  6. Remove them and cut into wedges. And serve.

Kinnam refers to a shallow copper or steel vessel in malayalam.

Kinnathappam can be called as a steam cooked rice cake.

Kinnathappam are of two types, one made with jaggery and the other with sugar.

Kinnathappam Kinnathappam is a traditional sweet of Malabar.

This video explain how to make kinnathappam in Kannur style.