Name: Goan Sweet Yellape | Sweet Rava Appe
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 20 min
Ingredients: 1 cup rava/semolina; 4 small bananas (peeled and chopped); 1/4 cup jaggery; 3 tablespoons grated coconut; A pinch of baking soda; 4 cardamom pods (crushed); 10 cashewnuts (chopped); 10 – 15 Tutti Frutti; A pinch of salt to taste; 1 tablespoon desi ghee/clarified butter

Yellape is a Goan sweet dish made with jaggery, mashed banana and rava or semolina. Yellape is also known as appe or paniyaram in South India and this dish can be called as sweet appe with sooji or sweet rava appe. This appe dish is a sweet snack recipe and can be served for breakfast or evening snacks along with tea or coffee.

Apart from making banana appe, we can make other yellape or paniyaram varieties like replacing banana with jackfruit or cucumber, just like how we make cucumber cake and jackfruit cake.

Let us see the ingredients that go in making banana appe recipe:

Semolina: Fine sooji or rava is used in this ape dish. Cracked wheat or wheat sooji (Bansi sooji) is also used in making this appe ki recipe.
Banana: Use fresh ripe banana in this recipe. Even over-ripe banana can be used, and this is a great recipe to make use of over ripe bananas in cooking instead of discarding them. I have used 4 small bananas (yellaki or elaichi banana).
Jaggery: Jaggery is used as a sweetener in this sweet yellape recipe. If jaggery is not available, sugar can be used.
Coconut: Use freshly grated coconut in this recipe. If freshly grated coconut is not available, use desiccated coconut.
Dry fruits: Cashewnuts are used in this recipe. Raisins can also be used.
Tutti Frutti: Tutti Frutti is an optional ingredient and is added for making the sweet paniyaram colourful and attractive.
Ghee: Little amount of ghee or clarified butter is used for greasing the appe pan.

Also try some more ripe banana recipes like:

Steps to make sweet rava appe or Goan yellape:

In a mixing bowl, add banana, jaggery, grated coconut, chopped cashewnuts, tutti fruit, crushed cardamom, baking soda and salt and make thick batter.
Add rava into the batter and let it get soaked for 2 hours.
Heat the appe pan and add a drop of ghee in each slot.
Add a tablespoon of the batter to each of the slots in the pan.
Let it cook on low flame.
When the edges of the yellape start turning brownish, using a skewer flip to the other side, and let it cook for 5 more minutes or till the appe is cooked.

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Goan Sweet Yellape | Sweet Rava Appe

Prep Time10 mins

Cook Time20 mins

Course: Breakfast, Dessert, Desserts

Cuisine: Goan, Indian, South Indian

Servings: People

Author: Raksha Kamat

Ingredients

1 cup rava/semolina
4 small bananas peeled and chopped
1/4 cup jaggery
3 tablespoons grated coconut
A pinch of baking soda
4 cardamom pods crushed
10 cashewnuts chopped
10 – 15 Tutti Frutti
A pinch of salt to taste
1 tablespoon desi ghee/clarified butter

Instructions

In a mixing bowl, add banana, jaggery, grated coconut, chopped cashewnuts, tutti fruit, crushed cardamom, baking soda and salt and make thick batter.
Add rava into the batter and let it get soaked for 2 hours.
Heat the appe pan and add a drop of ghee in each slot.
Add a tablespoon of the batter to each of the slots in the pan.
Let it cook on low flame.
When the edges of the yellape start turning brownish, using a skewer flip to the other side and let it cook for 5 more minutes or till the appe is cooked.