Achappam Recipe | Kerala Style Fried Rose Cookies

Step 1: To prepare Achappam Recipe | Kerala Style Fried Rose Cookies, sift flour through a sieve

Step 2: In a large mixing bowl, add coconut milk and transfer the flour slowly while you keep stirring in a spatula to make a fine batter

Step 3: Beat eggs in a bowl till fluffy and add it into the flour batter

Step 4: Now start adding powdered sugar gradually and whisk the batter using an electric blender to avoid lumps and make a fine and smooth batter

Step 5: If you find the batter to be too thick, you can adjust it with more coconut milk

Step 6: Add fennel seeds and pinch of salt and give a quick stir to the batter

Step 7: The consistency of the batter should neither be too thick nor too thin

Step 8: Now take a thick bottomed broad frying pan and heat oil

Step 9: As soon as the oil gets heated up nicely, immerse the iron/steel mold into it completely and hold on for a minute

Step 10: Now take out the hot mold and immediately immerse it in the flour batter

Step 11: Make sure the mold is only 3/4 immersed in batter, to ease the cookies to to transferred to oil when they are being fried

Step 12: Now again dip the batter coated on the mold in hot oil completely and hold on for a minute or two, till the batter gets golden and crispy

Step 13: As soon as the batter is cooked it will detach from the mold itself

Step 14: Remove the mold and carefully take out the achappam from oil using a perforated ladle

Step 15: Transfer the achappam to a kitchen towel to absorb excess oil

Step 16: Repeat the same process with rest of the batter

Step 17: Serve these Kerala Style Fried Rose Cookies (Achappam) as an evening snack along with smoothie