Appam

Ingredients list for Appam

• 1 cup Short grain rice , soaked for 3-4 hours and drained
• 3 White bread slices
• 1/2 cup Cooked rice , cooked
• 1/2 cup Fresh coconut , scraped
• 1 teaspoon Salt
• 1 medium Onion , peeled
• as required Oil
• to serve Green coconut chutney

Method

1. Place bread slices on a plate, pour some water over them and let them soak for 10-15 minutes.
2. Put the drained rice in a mixer jar, add 50 ml water and grind into a smooth batter.
   Transfer into a bowl.
3. Put cooked rice and coconut in the same mixer jar. Squeeze out excess water from bread slices, add to mixer jar along with 25 ml water and blend into a smooth and thick mixture.
4. Add this mixture to the rice batter, mix well, cover and set aside in a warm place for
   6-8 hours to ferment.
5. Heat a cast-iron appam kadai.
6. Add salt to fermented batter and mix well.
7. Insert a fork in the onion, dip it in some oil and grease the hot appam kadai with it.
8. Pour a ladleful of batter in the greased pan and swirl to spread it all around the kadai so that the edges are thin and the centre is thicker. Cover and cook for 2-3 minutes.Remove the appam and keep on a serving plate. Make more appams similarly.
9. Serve hot with green coconut chutney or vegetable ishtew or chicken ishtew.