Ingredients:
Ponni Rice/Idly Rice- 3 cupsCooked Rice- 1 cup
Yeast- 1 tsp
Sugar-1 tsp
Salt- 1tsp
Method:
- Soak the rice in water for 6-8 hours
- Grind the rice first
- Then grind the coconut and cooked rice with salt and sugar
- Add yeast and mix well. the batter should not be too thick and should not be too loose also.
- Keep the batter for 6-8 hours to ferment.Check the salt also.
- You can take little in a different vessel and add adequate water for the batter.
- And then make the appam in frying pan or Appachatti..
- When you make it in Appachatti, then it becomes paalappam
- There are versions of Appam. Egg Hopper- making Egg omelette in the centre of the appam and cooking it together, Coconut Milk Hopper- pouring coconut milk mixed with sugar on to the centre and cooking it. Vegetable hopper - putting vegetable masala mix in the middle of the appam etc. You can have your version to it also..Like pouring honey etc.
- You can also mix the batter with sugar and add cardamom powder and nuts and pour the same into a plate and steam it in a steamer. It tastes yummy...
- Appam- Egg curry, Appam- stew, Appam-coconut milk are super combinations...
