Sweet Banana Appam Paniyaram
A wholesome Indian recipe crafted for health-conscious eating: nutritious, delicious, and easy to make at home.
Ripe banana folded into a lightly sweet batter and cooked in an appe pan — soft banana appam with crisp edges.
Sweet paniyaram is a banana batter dropped into an appe pan until golden. It is soft inside with a lightly crisp outside, and it is what many South Indian homes make from overripe bananas.
Ingredients
How to Make It
Mash banana with jaggery and cardamom.
Mix flour into a thick pourable batter.
Cook in greased appe pan until golden.
Nutrition per serving
* Approximate values per serving
Health Benefits
Fruit-sweetened snack using measured oil in an appe pan instead of deep frying.
Ripe banana adds sweetness and moisture, so less jaggery is needed. A non-stick appe pan needs only a few drops of oil per hole.
Pro Tips
- →Use overripe bananas.
- →Medium heat.
- →Don’t overfill moulds.
- →Use very ripe bananas. Firm ones taste starchy.
- →Keep the batter thick enough to hold on a spoon.
- →Cook on low heat with a lid so the inside cooks before the outside browns.
A calorie note
Most of the calories in this dish come from a few ingredients. For reference, per 100 g: Cooking oil: about 884 kcal (about 40 kcal per teaspoon); Jaggery: about 380 kcal; White rice (raw): about 365 kcal. Measure these with a spoon or scale, because small changes here move the total more than anything else. Values are rounded from USDA FoodData Central and the Indian Food Composition Tables (IFCT 2017), as of 13 Oct 2026, and vary by variety and by table. General information, not medical advice.
Variations
- 1Add coconut.
- 2Wheat flour version.
- 3Add grated coconut to the batter or finish with a drizzle of ghee.
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