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.
