Stuffed Date Fritters remind me of Ramdhan spent in Abudhabi, UAE. When Ramdhan falls during July-August, you get different varieties of dates from the farm that are sweeter than honey and give you a jump start  while breaking a day long fast from dawn to dusk. Some Arab farm owners may gift you few kilograms
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Idiyappam or String hoppers is a culinary specialty in Tamilnadu, Kerala and Coastal areas of Karnataka. It is also popular in certain areas of Sri Lanka. It is also called noolappam or noolputtu from the Tamil word for string, nool. It is made of rice flour, salt and water. It is generally served as the
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A sweet made with rice flour,cream of wheat, banana and molasses/jaggery, fried in appakkara (unniappam chatti) just for this purpose. Ingredients Rice flour – 1 Cup Sooji /rava /semolina -1 cup Grated Coconut – 1/2 cup Molasis (jaggery) syrup -1 cup Cardamom Powder – 1 tsp Banana (Palayankodan) – 1 cup chopped Coconut oil/cooking oil/ghee
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