Indian Cooking Recipe for Festivals: Appam This recipe is prepared on Krishna Ashtami (Krishna Jayanthi). Ingredients: Rice - 1 cup Jaggery(gur) - 1/2 cup Coconut scraping - 1/2 cup Banana Cardamom powder - 1 tea spoon Oil for frying Method : Soak the rice along with 1 table spoon of black gram dal in water Grind rice,jaggery and coconut scraping very well and prepare the batter Mix smashed banana and cardamom powder with the batter Heat oil in deep pan on fire and drop a big ladle (spoon)of batter into hot oil Fry the Appam till it turns brown and crisp Remove from oil and serve hot