Vellayappam Recipe

Ingredients:

• Raw rice - 2 cups
• Grated coconut - 1 cups
• Cooked rice - 1/4 cup
• Yeast - 1/2 tsp
• Sugar - 1 tsp
• Salt - to taste

Preparation:

1. Soak raw rice in water for 4 to 5 hours.
2. In a grinder, grind soaked raw rice, grated coconut and cooked rice, little at a time to a smooth paste with water. The batter should not be too watery nor too thick.
3. Pour the batter into a utensil. Since the batter will ferment and rise in volume, use a big enough utensil.
4. In a small bowl, take 1/4 cup lukewarm water. Add sugar, stir and dissolve it. Add yeast to this solution. Let the yeast will rise. Pour this yeast solution to the batter and stir well.
5. Rest the batter in a warm place to ferment and rise in volume. (You can make the batter in the evening and rest it overnight to ferment.) Add salt to the batter and stir.
6. Heat a non- stick pan or a vellayappa chatty to make vellayappam. Grease the pan with little oil. Pour one big spoon of batter to the pan, lift the pan from stove and slightly twist around to spread the batter in the pan to make a circular shape. Close with a lid and cook on low heat.
7. Take the cooked appam from the pan and serve hot with Coconut milk, Meat / Vegetable stew or Mutton kuruma.

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