APPAM

Hi friends,
Appam is a healthy steam-cooked breakfast recipe. It is usually had with coconut milk. It can also be had with vegetable kurma, spicy chicken gravy or chicken kurma

Ingredients:

• Boiled rice - 1 cup
• Raw rice - 3/4 cup
• Urad dal or black gram - 1/4 cup
• Fenugreek seeds / Methi - 1/2 teaspoon 
• Salt to taste 
• Coconut water - obtained from breaking open a coconut 
• Baking soda - 1/2 teaspoon 
• Water - 2 cups

Method:

• Soak the boiled rice, raw rice, urad dal and methi in water for 3 hours 
• Strain off the water
• Add the soaked rice, dal and methi seeds in a wet grinder 
• Add 2 cups of water 
• Grind it for 15 minutes in the wet grinder into a smooth paste
• Collect it in a vessel and leave it covered in a cool pace for 4 hours
• After 4 hours, add the coconut water and baking soda
• Mix it well to form a batter of pouring consistency 

• Heat a tawa or griddle
• Pour a ladle of the batter in the centre of the tawa

• Rotate the tawa to spread it out into a circle
• Do not spread it out manually 

• Cook for a minute with a lid covered 

• Once you remove the lid, it should look cooked like this

• Remove it with a spatula 

• Serve hot with accompaniment of your choice 
• Appam usually goes well with coconut milk

Please do try this recipe and enjoy the art of cooking!!!

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