Simple Indian Steamed Sweet Rice Cake (Vatteppam)

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How to cook Simple Indian Steamed Sweet Rice Cake ( Vatteppam )

Steamed Sweet Rice Cake ( Vatteppam )

          Simple Indian Steamed Sweet Rice Cake ( Vatteppam in Malayalam) is a delicious South Indian especially Kerala traditional dish which is very simple to make. This is a dish made with rice powder , coconut and yeast / real toddy. All children as well as adults definitely like this vatteppam. This is a very simple preparation which you can have at breakfast,dinner or at tea time. This is a special dish item which you can serve for your guests.

         I learnt Simple Indian Steamed Sweet Rice Cake ( Vatteppam ) cooking recipe from my mom. We are Christians. Probably my mom used to prepare vatteppam on special occasions like X-mas , Easter and some feast belongs to our church. We used to give this special dish to our non-Christians neighbours and friends. They all appreciate my mom for her special vatteppam. Obviously I also follow her special vatteppam recipe. My mom used to prepare the vatteppam with the real toddy at our native place,Kerala. But now I am staying in UAE with my family. Here the real toddy ( made in Sri Lanka) is available in rare places only. So I used to make the vatteppam with the yeast. Many friends told me that the yeast is hopeless for vatteppam and the real toddy should be there. But I proved them wrong with my special vatteppam. Now my friends also learnt how to make the delicious and soft vatteppam without real toddy. Now I would like to share this special vatteppam recipe with you. Please  find below the ingredients and method to prepare the Simple Indian Steamed Sweet Rice Cake ( Vatteppam )



Steamed Sweet Rice Cake ( Vatteppam ) Cooking Recipe
Ingredients :-

• Fried rice powder - 2 cups
• Cooked rice - 1 tbsp
• Yeast - 1 tsp
• Sugar - 4 tbsp
• Semolina( Rava/ Sooji) - 3 tbsp
• Coconut - Half of a coconut
• Cashew nuts - 8 no's
• Cardamom - 6 no's
• Raisins / Kishmis -- 12 no's
• Salt - 2 pinch ( According to your taste)

Steamed Sweet Rice Cake Cooking Recipe
Method :-

• In a small bowl,add 1/4 glass of lukewarm water , yeast and 1 tsp of sugar and keep it for 10 minutes closed. ( Do not add very hot water as the yeast will not rise.)
• Heat another cooking vessel and add the rava and 1 glass of water and boil till it becomes thick. Keep it for sometime to cool.
• When it becomes cool, add this to  a mixer grinder.
• Add the coconut,cooked rice ,salt,remaining sugar and previously prepared yeast to the mixer grinder and grind them with the minimum amount of water.Pour this to a big steel pot.
• Then grind the rice powder with minimum amount of water. (Take care to add minimum amount of water when you grind the rice powder.) Add this to the same pot.
• Mix all till it becomes little thick.If it is still too much watery add little more rice powder and mix well.
• Cover with a lid and keep it for 6-8 hours to rise.
• After the specified time add the ground cardamom and mix well slowly.
• Apply little oil in a steel flat plate and add the prepared mixture in the 3/4 of the plate. For decoration add the raisins and cashew nuts.
• Make ready one pot ( steamed cooker/ Appa chembu in Malayalam)for steaming.Keep the plate in the prepared hot steamed pot. Cover with a lid.
• Steam the cake / vatteppam till a knife inserted in it comes out clearly.
• Take out the plate and let it cool for some time.Yaami...Yaami..the vatteppam is ready.
• Slice the cake / vatteppam as desired.

           You can serve the simple Indian Steamed Sweet Rice Cake ( Vatteppam ) with the chicken curry / Duck roast / egg curry / Beef stew / vegetable stew/ chicken stew/ mutton stew/ mutton curry/ beef curry.It is a good combination.


Kitchen Tips :-

• If the coconut water is available , you can rice the yeast in one coconut's water by adding 1/4 tsp of yeast and 1 tsp of sugar and keep it for 10 minutes.You can make the real toddy flavor like that. Try this interesting kitchen tip. Will you?
• To make the pure white colour vateeppam , add the coconut milk instead of the direct coconut. Is this kitchen tip interesting one ???
• If the coconut water is available, you can keep this closed in the room temperature 24 hours before making the vatteppam. When you mix the cardamom powder, you can add this coconut water and mix well. It will be more tasty. Try this kitchen tip.

My friends,try this recipe today itself and enjoy !!!