these banana appams make for a healthy sweet snack. i used over ripe bananas to make these. though you can even use ripe bananas. i have added more bananas than what is generally added in appams. you can make these and store them in an air tight box in the fridge. to make these you need the paniyaram chatti or appe pan – Æbleskiver pan. you can also shallow or deep fry these appams, if you don’t have this special cookware. even the shall...
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A: While cooking can modify the structure of the fibrous cell walls in plant foods, loss of fiber when cooking is not a real concern. Fiber is tough stuff; it’s the portion of the plant that our bodies are unable to digest (even with all of our specialized enzymes and strong stomach acids), and it’s similarly undisturbed by cooking. Although the cellulose and other indigestible materials in plants are not broken down by cooking, they can become softened; this is why so...
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I started baking for the very first time around the same time I began to blog. As I didn’t see myself using eggs in baking, bananas were the default substitute in my egg-less baking adventures and experiments. Since then, I must have baked banana based cakes and loaves god-knows-how-many times. I feel forever thankful to the humble banana for ushering me into the wonderland of baking. Whenever bananas in the fruit bowl appear ...
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Its amazing how new traditions are formed. A couple of years back exactly around these holidays, a 5 something year old girl wanted to bake cookies with her mom. So, they went to the store, bought some cookie cutters, came home and baked the cookies that they both wanted to bake. Then the two giggled with joy and gorged on the most delicious and prettiest cookies they had ever baked, as the sun sunk into the horizon. And that is when they knew their favorite holiday traditio...
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