Sannas

Steamed rice-and-coconut cakes

Preparation info
  • Makes

    16

    • Difficulty

      Medium

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By Sanjeev Kapoor

Published 2011

  • About

Reminiscent of the South Indian snack idli (steamed rice cakes), Goan sannas are enriched with coconut milk. Goans usually use toddy (fermented palm sap) to leaven the dough of this rice cake, but here I use yeast, which is much more available. When the batter becomes light and airy, it is ready to be poured into the molds and steamed. Stainless-steel molds called vantleo are traditional, but idli<