Snacks

Baked Jaggery Pancake Muffin

I love this version of baked muffin, as it gave me a taste of all the flavors of snacks we used to have as a kid and even now. The main components being jaggery and cinnamon, is just a lovely combination! It’s an evening snack recipe, easy to prepare in less than an hour.

In South Indian Mangalorean cuisine, the same recipe is used to make “Appa” (pancake balls) traditionally prepared during festive seasons mostly by the Hindu households. It is sweet and light. It is cooked/steamed on a stove top in a aebleskiver pan, with a distinctive shape of a sphere.

Preparation Time: 10 minutes

Cooking time: 7 minutes

Makes: 6

Required Appliance: Electric Blender

Ingredients

Beaten rice – 1/4 cup

Jaggery – 1/4 cup, pounded into small pieces

Fresh grated coconut – 1/4 cup, (can use desiccated coconut, if fresh coconut is not available)

Salt – 1/8 tsp

Baking powder – 1/4 tsp, (or baking soda 1/8 tsp)

Coarse semolina – 1 tbsp

Cardamom pods – 1, seeds crushed

Chapathi flour – 1/2 cup, if necessary can add more

Ghee to coat the pan

Directions

1. Preheat oven at 200 degree Celsius (390 degrees Fahrenheit).

2. Place the beaten rice in a strainer and wash under cold running water so that the beaten rice flakes are wet and soft. Tap to strain excess water.

3. Now, using an Electric blender, add the beaten rice, jaggery, coconut and salt with 1/4 cup (75 ml) water. Blend for 2 mins to form a thick batter.

4. Transfer the batter to a bowl and add 1/4 cup water into the blender to recover the rest of the batter. Pour this into the bowl.

5. Stir in the baking powder, semolina, cardamom. Gradually, stir in the chapathi flour mixing between each addition.

6. Make a thick batter of pouring consistency. After they are well combined. Let the batter rest for 30 minutes at room temperature.

7. Prepare the muffin pan by brushing it with ghee.

8. After 30 minutes, pour the batter into the pan and insert it into the middle of the oven. Bake at 200 degree Celsius for 10 minutes or until you see it starts browning. Remove it out of the oven and flip them upside down. Place the tray back in the oven and bake for another 2 minutes.

9. Remove the pan out of the oven. Carefully remove the each muffin and place it on a serving plate to cool. It tastes good when it is hot or cold. Enjoy!

Note

*Double the ingredients if you want to prepare more quantity of muffins.

*I used Pillsbury ‘Chakki Atta’ (Indian chapathi flour) for this recipe.

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Passion Fruit Juice

Passion Fruit is a tropical fruit, and one of the many variety of fruits here in South East Asia which I didn’t know existed. I would try to imagine what this odd fruit tastes like and how would one use it. It’s enclosed with flesh-covered seeds which is edible. They can vary in color but, the passion fruit which I bought was slightly green-skinned . In few days time the color changed to pinkish-red at room temperature.

Passion fruits are packed with essential nutrients with its pulp and seeds containing good amount of fiber content. They are rich in antioxidants, iron, vitamin C. It’s incredibly refreshing and tasty.

Preparation time: 5 minutes

Serves : 2

Ingredients

Passion fruit – 3

Lemon juice – 4 tbsp

Sugar – 2 tbsp

Honey – 2 tbsp

Cold filtered water – 1 cup

Pinch of salt

Ice as required

Directions

1. Combine the passion fruit pulp, lemon, sugar, honey, water and a pinch of salt in a juice jar. Stir together.

Passion fruit and Lemon

2. Serve with ice.

Passion Fruit Juice

How to cut/eat?

+ Cut the fruit into half. The juice that comes out is very delicious.

+ Scoop out the pulp with seeds using a spoon into a small bowl. Sprinkle sugar and enjoy the taste!

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Banana Fritters

Have you ever had this feeling when you crave for certain food, you get homesick and just want to grab certain food from your imagination and quell hunger? Well, I got hungry and saw these over-ripe bananas languishing in my fruit box which brought me into making banana fritters for tea.

Fritters are popularly used with a variety of fruits and vegetables which are usually deep fried.

Preparation time: 10 minutes

Cook: 15 minutes

Makes: 25

Ingredients

Vegetable oil for deep-frying

Mashed Ripe Banana – 3 long

All-Purpose Flour – 1 1/2 cup

Grated coconut – 3 tbsp

Salt – 1/2 tsp

Baking powder – 1 tsp

Sugar – 1 1/2 tbsp

Rice Flour – 1/2 cup

Water – 1 cup

Directions

1. Place the coconut, flour, salt, baking powder, sugar, rice flour into a deep container.

Add all-purpose flour, salt

Add sugar

Baking powder

Rice flour

2. Pour the mashed banana into the flour mixture. Add water and mix till well combined to make a thick batter.

banana mash

Add banana mash and water

banana fritter mixture

3. Fill a deep-fry pan with enough vegetable oil for deep frying. Turn it on to medium heat and leave it to heat (see notes for details).

4. Drop a tablespoon of the banana mix into the oil, and fry up to 5 or 6 at a time on medium heat (make sure not to add too much mixture as it will puff up slightly while it cooks). Keeping an eye on them, turn with a slotted spoon for a few times until they turn golden brown on each side.

deep-fry

Remove and drain on kitchen towels to remove excess oil. Repeat the process until all the mixture is used.

5. Serve warm , or let it cool completely.

banana fritters

Storage suggestion

+ Store in airtight container at room temperature and use within a day

Note

*To check if the oil is hot enough, take a pinch of the mixture and drop it in the oil, it should sizzle with bubbles surrounding it.

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Baked Jaggery Pancake Muffin

Ingredients

Directions

Passion Fruit Juice

Ingredients

Passion fruit – 3

Lemon juice – 4 tbsp

Sugar – 2 tbsp

Honey – 2 tbsp

Cold filtered water – 1 cup

Pinch of salt

Ice as required

Directions

1. Combine the passion fruit pulp, lemon, sugar, honey, water and a pinch of salt in a juice jar. Stir together.

2. Serve with ice.

Banana Fritters

Ingredients

Vegetable oil for deep-frying

Mashed Ripe Banana – 3 long

All-Purpose Flour – 1 1/2 cup

Grated coconut – 3 tbsp

Salt – 1/2 tsp

Baking powder – 1 tsp

Sugar – 1 1/2 tbsp

Rice Flour – 1/2 cup

Water – 1 cup

Directions

1. Place the coconut, flour, salt, baking powder, sugar, rice flour into a deep container.

2. Pour the mashed banana into the flour mixture. Add water and mix till well combined to make a thick batter.

3. Fill a deep-fry pan with enough vegetable oil for deep frying. Turn it on to medium heat and leave it to heat (see notes for details).

4. Drop a tablespoon of the banana mix into the oil, and fry up to 5 or 6 at a time on medium heat (make sure not to add too much mixture as it will puff up slightly while it cooks). Keeping an eye on them, turn with a slotted spoon for a few times until they turn golden brown on each side.

Remove and drain on kitchen towels to remove excess oil. Repeat the process until all the mixture is used.

5. Serve warm , or let it cool completely.

Storage suggestion

+ Store in airtight container at room temperature and use within a day

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