Name: Unnakaaya (Step By Step Photos)
Prep time: 20 min
Total time: 20 min
Ingredients: 1 kg, Banana; Raisins (as required); 1, grated Coconut; 2-4 tbsp Sugar; 2-3 Cardamom; Ghee (as required); Oil (to fry)

Unnakaaya (Step By Step Photos)

popular malabar snack - Unnakaaya (Step by Step Photos)

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Prep Time 20

Total Time 20

Cuisine Kerala

Servings people

Ingredients

1 kg, Banana
Raisins as required
1, grated Coconut
2-4 tbsp Sugar
2-3 Cardamom
Ghee as required
Oil to fry

Instructions

Steam cook the bananas.
Peel and grind it finely. Keep it aside.
Heat ghee in a pan and sauté raisins,coconut and sugar in it till the coconut turns light brown in colour.
Add cardamom and take it from flame.
Now take a lemon sized ball from the grinded bananas.
Press it finely on your hand, or a flat, clean and greased surface.
Take a spoon full of the coconut mixture and place it on the pressed banana.
Fold it slowly in your hands and shape it well.
Repeat the same for the remaining banana and coconut.
Heat oil in a kadai and fry the unnakayas in it till brown in colour.
Serve it as an evening snack or during breaking fast.