Soft and Sweet Vattayappam adding Instant Yeast.

Vattayappam is a round shaped soft, spongy and little sweet steamed rice cake made with raw rice adding grated coconut, instant yeast, sugar, salt, cooked rice, cumin seeds, cardamom, cashew nuts and raisins.Vattayappam is served as a breakfast dish or as a snack in Kerala.Vattayappam recipe is given below with few step by step photos.

The following ingredients are needed to prepare Soft and Sweet Vattayappam adding Instant Yeast.

Ingredients:-

Raw Rice.           - 1 and 1/2 cup
Grated Coconut. - 1 and 1/2 cup (fresh)
Cooked Rice.      - 1/2 cup
Cumin seeds.      - 1/4 tsp
Instant yeast.       - 1/2 tsp
Salt.                     - 1/2 tsp
Sugar.                  - 2 tbsp
Cardamom.          - 5
Cashew nuts.       - few
Raisins.                - few

Instructions:-
Wash and soak raw rice in water for 2 hours. Then drain water completely and keep aside.Grind the soaked raw rice along with 1cup of freshly grated coconut, cooked rice, instant yeast, sugar and salt to a thick batter adding little water (add little water just to cover the ingredients). Then add remaining 1/2 cup of freshly grated coconut, cumin seeds and cardamom seeds into the thick batter and grind again for 1 minute without adding water.Transfer the ground batter to a vessel and keep aside for 2 minutes to ferment the batter.

Method:-

1). Grease little coconut oil inside a cooker pan.Sprinkle few cashew nuts and raisins in the cooker pan.
Pour the fermented ground batter into the cooker pan about 3/4 level of the pan.

 

2). Boil sufficient water in a steamer or in a cooker vessel and place the cooker pan on the steamer plate or inside the cooker.Close the steamer with its lid and steam cook the vattayappam for 20 minutes.

 

3). Once done switch off the flame.Open the steamer /cooker lid and remove the cooker pan from the steamer /cooker and allow the vattayappam to cool.

 

4). After cools down invert the cooker pan on a serving plate upside down.

 5). Cut the soft and spongy vattayappam into desired shapes.

A very tasty vattayappam is ready to serve with a cup of hot tea or coffee.