Rava Appalam

Ingredients for Rava Appalam:

1. Rava without granules – 3 cups
2. Dalda (Vanaspati) – ½ kg
3. Sugar – 800 gm
4. Coconut oil or dalda – as needed
5. Salt – a pinch

How to prepare Rava Appalam?

1. Add sufficient salt to rava and sprinkle water. Then mix it well and keep aside for ½ hour.
2. Place this mixture to a traditional stone grinder; crush it well adding enough coconut oil. Then make small gooseberry sized balls.
3. Add sugar to a flat pan and boil it well. Remove its impurities and keep it aside hot.
4. Make small papads (like we make chappati) from rava balls.
5. Heat dalda in a frying pan and fry each pappad, flip both sides.
6. Put pappads one after one in the hot sugar solution for a while and then spread them to a plate. Allow it to cool.