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Goan sweet yellape
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Goan Sweet Yellape | Sweet Rava Appe

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.
Course Breakfast, Dessert, Desserts
Cuisine Goan, Indian, South Indian
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Servings 4 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.