Appam

                                        Appam is a traditional Kerala Breakfast.

Ingredients

1.      White Rice – 3 cup (soaked for at least 8 hrs)

2.      Scraped coconut – 1 No

3.      Yeast – ½ tsp

4.      Sugar - 3-4 tsp

5.      Salt - As reqd

How to Prepare

Ground ½ cup soaked rice well. Take a small pan and add ground rice with 1 ½ cup of water and boil and stir continuously until it becomes thick batter and keep aside for cooling.(Or you can use ½ cup cooked rice instead of this. Grind the cooked rice well using little water).

Grind the remaining rice, coconut, yeast, sugar, salt and cooked rice batter by adding water little by little. (The batter should not be too watery)

Keep it aside for about 8-10  hours for fermentation.

Pour 1 ladle full of batter into a heated pan and rotate.Cover the pan with a lid. When cooked, take the vellayappam out with a spatula.

Serve hot with Chicken / Kadala Curry.


****To get soft appams:  Grind into a thick paste and allow for fermentation...1 hour before making appams add enough fresh milk to get the normal consistency of appam batter and grind it again. Then keep it again for fermentation. After 1 hour, you can make soft appams as usual...