Ingredients for Aappam:
1.Raw rice -2cups
2.Idly rice - 2 cups
3.urad dhal - 1 cup
4.mehthi seeds - less than 1/4 cup
5.Cooked rice - 1 cup
6.Shredded coconut - 1 cup (or subsitute with Coconut milk - 3/4 cup)
7.Sugar - 2 tsp
8.salt
Preparation of Aappam batter:
1. Soak the raw/idly rice in water for 5-6 hours.
2. Add cooked rice, coconut, sugar, salt to the rice and grind it to a smooth batter.
3. If you are using coconut milk, add it after grinding.
4. Keep this batter overnight for fermentation. In winter, it takes more time to ferment
5. The batter should be a pouring consistency and a little thinner than dosa batter.
Making the Aappam:
Aappams are made in iron skillet(A small vessel of iron, copper, or other metal, with a handle,
used for culinary purpose, as for stewing meat) called Aappa chatti.
Normally i will use teflon non-stick appam pan
Aappams have a soft and thick fluffy center and a thin lacy border.
Method:
1. Pour a ladle full of batter (approx 3 tbsp) in a hot skillet or aappam pan and swirl it immediately.
a thin later of the batter sticks to the sides of the pan and a small pool of batter in the middle.
2. Cover with a lid and cook on low flame till the center of the aappam is cooked and the lacy
borders starts getting light crispy and brown colour detached from the pan
Ingredients for CoconutMilk:
1.Shredded Coconut
2.Elaichi
Making the coconutmilk
1.Boil hot water
2.combine 1 cup shredded unsweetened dried coconut and 3 cups hot water in a blender. Blend for about 2 minutes or until it looks nice and creamy and you have a good froth on top.
Ingredients for sothi:
Ingredients:
1.4-5small onions
minced very fine
2.Fresh red or green chillies to taste (she says 2-3 is usually good), sliced or chopped
3.handful of curry leaves
4.3 tomato, cut into 8 wedges
5.thin coconut milk
6.thick coconut milk
7.1/2 teaspoon turmeric
8.salt
Put the frying pan and pour oil then fry the onion, chillies, curry leaves, tomato.Let them cook for 1 minutes after u pour thin coconut milk, turmeric, salt, in a pot and bring to the boil. Simmer for about 10 minutes , make sure they are well cooked. Then add in the thick coconut milk and bring to the boil again. Remove from heat and stir in fresh lime juice to taste. Serve hot.
