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To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have unnakkaya - a malabar ramadan snack using 10 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Unnakkaya - A Malabar Ramadan Snack:
- Take 5 - Ripe plantains /Nenthrapazham
- Get 1 cup -Grated coconut
- Make ready 3 Tbsp or as needed - Sugar
- Make ready 2 Tbsp - Raisins
- Prepare 4 Tbsp - Almonds/ cashew nuts (roughly chopped)
- Make ready 1 Tsp-Cardamom powder
- Prepare 1 - Egg (optional)
- Take 1 pinch - Salt
- Get 1 Tbsp - Ghee
- Take Oil for deep frying
Steps to make Unnakkaya - A Malabar Ramadan Snack:
- Cut each of the bananas into half and also the stems at both the ends. Steam the bananas in a steamer until cooked soft. You can even microwave the bananas and cook. BUT DO NOT OVERCOOK THEM as later it becomes mushy and wont be able to roll it tight.
- After cooling it, peel off the skin and cut into half and remove the black seed thread.
- Now mash it using a wooden spoon or with your hand into a very smooth dough without any lumps. Keep aside.
- Beat egg with a teaspoon of sugar, 1/4 tsp cardamom powder and salt. Keep aside. (optional)
- Heat a tsp oil in a nonstick pan and scramble egg. Keep aside.(optional)
- Now heat ghee, fry the raisins, let it puff up, remove from heat and keep aside.
- Add grated coconut and saute for 5 minutes till the moisture is absorbed.
- Add sugar, cardamom powder, raisins, scrambled egg (optional) and almonds/ cashew nuts. Remove from heat and keep aside to cool.
- Grease your palm and take little banana mixture, about a lemon size and flatten it with your thumb, place a 2 tsp of the filling inside, seal the edges and roll into cylindrical shape with elongated edges. Shape the remaining the same way.
- Heat oil in a kadai/deep bottomed pan for deep frying. Deep fry each of them into golden. Fry both the sides. Drain on paper towel and serve them hot.
- Notes:
- Do no overcook the bananas, it will become watery and will become difficult to hold.
- If you don't like or use eggs you can avoid eggs and make it pure vegetarian.
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