Malabar Recipes – Kaipola – Pazham Kalthappam
2013-08-30- Cuisine: Kerala
- Course: Kerala Snacks, Snacks, നാലുമണി പലഹാരം
- Skill Level: Beginner
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- Yield: 250 gm
- Servings: 5
- Prep Time: 10m
- Cook Time: 20m
- Ready In: 30m
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Kaipola is a tea time snack with main ingredient as banana. This is an authentic Malabar dish which is often served as an evening snack. This is a snack which can be made easily. This is a sweet dish and it is a mixture of ripe bananas and eggs.
Kaipola is usually prepared during Ramadan days.
Ingredients
- Nendrapazham - 3 chopped
- Eggs - 2 nos
- Coconut grated -1 cup
- Ghee - 5 tsp
- Sugar - 1/2 cup
- Cashew nuts - 10 nos
- Raisins - 10 nos
- Cardamom - 2 crushed
- Vanila essence - 3 drops
Method
Step 1
Heat a pan add 3 tsp ghee and add the chopped nendrapazham to it and saute for 5 minutes.
Step 2
After 5 minutes when nendrapazham turns light brown colour add sugar and saute well.
Step 3
Take a bowl beat 2 eggs and add crushed cardamom, raisins, cashew nuts, grated coconut and vanila essence and mix well.
Step 4
Pour this egg mixture into the cooked nendrapazham mix it well.
Step 5
Heat a non stick pan on a low flame and add 2 tsp of ghee. Now add the nendra pazham mixture into the pan and close with a lid and cook for 8 minutes.
Step 6
After 8 minutes flip it over to a plate and reverse back as it is and cook the other side for another 8 minutes. Tasty Pazham Kalthappam is ready to be served.