Chakka appam/ steamed jackfruit rice cake
Chakka appam/ steamed jackfruit rice cake

Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, chakka appam/ steamed jackfruit rice cake. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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Chakka appam/ steamed jackfruit rice cake is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Chakka appam/ steamed jackfruit rice cake is something that I have loved my entire life.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook chakka appam/ steamed jackfruit rice cake using 7 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Chakka appam/ steamed jackfruit rice cake:
  1. Prepare 1huge bowl ripe jack fruit
  2. Take 1 cup Jaggery grated
  3. Take 2 cup roasted rice flour
  4. Make ready 1/2 cup water
  5. Take 3/4 cup fresh grated coconut
  6. Make ready 5 cardamom pods(seeded)
  7. Make ready 1Pinch salt

To make this, jackfruit puree sweetened with jaggery is mixed with or stuffed within rice flour dough, wrapped with banana leaves or therali leaves and steamed. Then rinse well, drain the water and keep aside. Clean the jackfruit and de-seed it. To a mixer, add the idli rice, jackfruit pieces, cardamom and powdered jaggery.

Steps to make Chakka appam/ steamed jackfruit rice cake:
  1. In a deep vessel take the rice flower, add to this pinch of salt, some cardamom powder and mix it well with water. Add water little by little and mix everything well to form a smooth dough. Keep it covered and allow it to rest.
  2. Deseed the jackfruit and roughly chop them.
  3. In blender coarse grind the jack fruit and set aside.
  4. In a small bowl add grated jaggery and coconut along with some cardamom powder and combine well. Then gently mix in the jackfruit pure, do not press hard
  5. Cut banana leaf into small squares or rectangular shape and wash them gently.
  6. Mix the dough once again and place small round balls
  7. Take a leaf and spread one dough in the center, and with your fingertips spread it to a circle as shown in the picture.
  8. Spoon in the jackfruit mixture on half side of the spread dough and fold the other half over it, to form a wrap. Place it in a steamer and cook on high steam for 12-15minutes
  9. To taste if it is cooked lift open once of the banana leaves and check it also the colour of the leaf changes. - Once it is cool enough to touch remove the wrapper and enjoy with hot tea.

Unlike common appams like velayappam, vatayappam this appam contains no yeast and hence does not rise when steamed. I love it for its thin appearance and for the fact that it can be made in a jiffy without prior preparations. The jackfruit pulp is just m twist the normal one does not add jackfruit. Kinnathappam is a traditional Malabar Style steamed rice cake. Here is jack fruit flavored rice cake preparation.

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