Sweet Rava Appam / Lellava Godu Appo

Ghee roasted Sweet Rava Appam / Rava Unniyappam (Lellava Godu Appo in Konkani) is a delicious and sweet snack made with rava (semolina), banana, sugar and milk. Sweet Rava Appam recipe is explained with step by step method and photos.

The following ingredients are needed to prepare Sweet Rava Appam /Lellava godu Appo.

Ingredients:-

Rava (Semolina).          -1cup
Sugar.                            -1/2 cup
Ripe small banana.        -1
Boiled and cooled milk. - 1 cup
Chopped Cashew nut.     - few
Raisins.                            - few
Cardamom.                      - 4
Ghee.                                - for roasting

Instructions:-

1). Heat 1tsp ghee in a pan and fry cashew nut pieces till golden colour and keep aside. Add raisins into the same pan and fry in ghee till they puffed up and keep aside.

2). Peel and crush cardamom using mortar and pestel and keep aside.

3). Mash a small ripe banana (mysore banana or palayamkodan banana) to a smooth paste using hands (about 1/4 cup) and keep aside.

Method:-

1). In a mixing bowl add rava (semolina). Add boiled and cooled milk into the mixing bowl and soak rava for an hour.

2). Then add crushed cardamom, mashed banana paste, fried cashew nuts and fried raisins into the mixing bowl and mix with the soaked rava.

3). Add sugar into the mixing bowl and mix with the rava banana mixture.

4). Keep aside the rava banana sugar mixture to rest for 5 minutes.

5). If the rava sugar mixture is too thick, add 2 tbsp of water into the mixture and mix well to make a semi thick batter of pouring consistency.Keep aside the sweet rava batter.

6). Heat a appe pan (paniyaram pan) on high flame and pour 1tsp ghee in each cavity of the appe pan.

7). Take a ladle of sweet rava batter and pour it in each cavity of the appe pan. Fill all the cavity of the appe pan with sweet rava batter.

8). Close the appe pan with a lid and cook the rava appam on low flame for 3 minutes or till the bottom of the sweet rava appam becomes golden colour.

9). Open the lid and turn the rava appam with a spoon to cook the other side.

10). Remove the well roasted sweet rava appam from appe pan with a spoon and transfer to a serving plate.

  
11). Make sweet rava appam with the remaining batter.

Ghee roasted Sweet Rava Appam / Rava Uunniyappam/ Lellava Godu Appo is ready to serve hot.