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Steamed Rice Cake | Vattayappam | Soft and Fluffy Appam Recipe | with step by step photos and video<\/strong>. A healthiest traditional tea time snack with almost no oil from the Kerala Cuisine. A pristine white, spongy cake made with fermented rice batter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A very popular Kerala tea-time snack. This sweet cake is naturally gluten-free and vegan. It\u2019s perfect for breakfast, brunch, as a snack or for dessert. You can even make it savory and serve it with curries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is Vattayappam?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Vattayappam, made up of a rice and coconut based batter and is pretty unique in that the batter is first fermented and then steamed. This process results in a perfectly soft and slightly spongy cake. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

About the Ingredients:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The main ingredients in this cake are rice and coconut. Other ingredients used are yeast, sugar, roasted cumin powder and cardamom. Moreover, any flavoring and spices used are optional. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We tried using shortcuts like making this with rice flour and canned coconut milk but ultimately found that the best way to make this in an instant pot is to grind the rice and coconut yourself. So in this recipe we share the recipe method using grinding process. It is quite simple. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rice<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The flour used in this steam cake is ground rice flour. If you are not familiar with these rice varieties you can use the store bough rice powder too. The quality of rice flour is very important, do not use sticky rice flours. Less starchy flours work better here.  Usually Indian grocery stores carry rice flour for making Vattayappam or use the raw rice flour available there. Another option is to soak rice and grind as prescribed here. The typical Indian  varieties  of  rice  like ponni rice, idli rice, sona masoori, jeera or even basmati will work well in  this recipe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How  to  know  when the vattayappam is  cooked through ?<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Usually 30 minutes of steaming is all that is needed to cook vattayappam. Moreover, it depends on the size of mold we use. When cooked the cake will begin to pull away every so lightly from the sides of the pan. Another way to check is to stick a tooth pick into the center of the cake. If it comes out clean the cake is done cooking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How to prepare steamed rice cake or vattayappam?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Steamed Rice Cake | Vattayappam | Soft and Fluffy Appam Recipe | with step by step photos and video<\/strong>. A healthy snack very easy to digest, light and delicious. Rice, coconut grind and some spices are ground together and fermented with yeast. Its a very soft spongy and slightly sweet cake. perfect for tea time. For a twist for the flavor, we had added a small amount of vanilla essence. This is completely optional to be added. For the softness of the cake we need to add either one of these: aval or poha, cooked rice or kappi(a thick porridge). Here we use kappi for the softness. Kappi is a local name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Furthermore, if you like to add some nuts or raisins, you can add them. Its the flavor of cardamon which plays havoc to your taste buds in this super soft rice cake, so try not to omit them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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