Palappam Recipe

Ingredients:

• Raw Rice - 1 cup
• Grated Coconut - 1 ½ cup
• Cooked rice - 3 tbsp
• Yeast - ¼ tsp
• Warm water - 1 tbsp
• Sugar - 3 tsp
• Salt - to taste

Preparation:

1. Soak the rice for 5-6 hours. Then grind it fine along with the cooked rice and sufficient water. Separately grind the grated coconut to a fine paste. Add to the rice paste with 2 ½ teaspoons of sugar. Mix well.
2. Mix yeast, warm water and sugar and keep for about 10-15 minutes. After the yeast gets dissolved in the water, mix with the rice-coconut mixture and keep overnight.
3. In the morning mix the batter with salt. Heat and oil an appam chatti (Pan), pour 1 full serving spoon of batter and swirl it around. Then cover and keep for 20-30 seconds. Remove when done and repeat the process for the rest of the batter.
4. Serve appam with stew or meat curry or egg roast.

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