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Kumbilappam is made by steaming pre-cooked sweet mixture of ripe jackfruit bulbs, rice flour, jaggery and grated coconut, wrapped in bay leaves shaped as cones.
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Unnakai is a spindle-shaped sweet snack that could be loosely translated to coconut-stuffed plantain rolls. The filling also includes nuts, raisins, eggs and sugar.
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Ethakkappam–or banana fritters–are made by deep frying banana slices coated with a batter consisting all purpose flour, sugar, turmeric powder and salt.
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Unniappam, the closest cousin of Neyyappam, is made by frying small balls of thick batter made by mixing rice flour, jaggery, banana, coconut pieces and cardamom powder.
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Avalos Unda–or, the roasted rice balls–is a traditional sweet snack with roasted rice flour, grated coconut, cumin seeds, cardamom powder, sugar and salt.
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Vattappam–or, the round appam–is a steamed rice cake made of rice and coconut batter, fermented using yeast. It is soft, spongy and light to eat.
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Ela Ada is a steamed rice pancake with a coconut-jaggery filling. It gets its name from the way it is cooked, wrapped in plantain leaf.
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Similar to Modaks, Kerala's Kozhukkatai is a steamed sweet rice dumpling with coconut and jaggery filling. The filling is usually flavoured with cardamom powder.
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Vettu cake is a deep fried tea cake made of all purpose flour mixed with baking soda, eggs, sugar, cardamom powder and salt.
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Sukhiyan is made by deep frying a ball of moist green gram, jaggery and grated coconut mixture covered in all purpose flour batter.