Appam

 

Appam

Appam from Kerala is simple to make. It requires very few ingredients.

Ingredients :

• Raw rice - 1 cup
• Idli rice - 1 cup
• Half cup cooked rice
• half cup grated fresh coconut
• salt to taste
• a pinch of cooking/baking soda just before putting appam on griddle/tawa.

Method :

• Soak both the rice in water for at-least 3 hours. Soak cooked rice in water at-least for an hour.
• Grind the soaked rice in mixer/grinder until it becomes smooth. It can be a little watery than idli/dosa batter.
• Next grind the soaked rice and coconut together. Mix it with the rice batter. Add salt and leave it to ferment for 3 hours. In colder places might take longer or overnight.
• While preparing Appam, add a pinch of soda to the batter. Hear the griddle/tawa. This tawa should be curved. If you dont have a curved tawa you can use a curved kadai. The batter should be runny as you will not be spreading the batter like dosa. You pour it from edges of the griddle/tawa and the batter runs down the center. The center will be a thicker and edges will be thin. Spread a few drops of oil. Close the lid and wait for it to cook. Once done, lift it from the edges. Do not flip it on the other side.
• Serve hot with coconut chutney.

Varieties of Appam

• Add jaggery to the appam before taking it out from the tawa. This becomes sweet appam.
• Egg appam - Spread an egg after spreading the batter. Let the egg cook along with the appam.