Aappam / Hoppers

Ingredients:
1 cup raw rice
1 cup parboiled rice
¼ cup urad dhal
½ tsp fenugreek seeds
¼ tsp baking soda / cooking soda for every 1 cup of fermented batter.
Salt to taste
Water as required

Method:

Preparation:

• Combine first four ingredients together and wash 3 ~ 4 times
• Soak with sufficient water for 2 hours.
• Strain the water and use it for grinding.
• Grind the soaked ingredients in to fine paste with required amount of  water.
• Add salt and using your hand mix batter thoroughly. Ferment for 8 ~ 10 hours or leave it overnight.
• After 8 hours batter should have risen to double the original quantity and also with foam at the top.

• Mix the fermented batter and dilute it with required amount of water and it should be little thinner than dosa batter.

Cooking:

• Before making appam, dilute baking soda with 2 tsp of water and mix it to the batter.
• Heat appam pan or non stick wok in medium heat and grease it with little oil.
• Whisk and take ladle full of batter and pour it in center of the pan, 

• Immediately swirl the pan so that batter gets coated on the sides of the pan.
• Cover the pan and cook it for 3 ~ 4 minutes.
• When it is lacy and crispy on its edges and thick & spongy at the bottom, remove from the pan and serve with Stew or coconut milk..

Note:

• 1 tsp of sugar can be added to the batter to give nice golden color appam.
• You can freeze the remaining batter for 2 ~ 3 weeks which will give better result.
• I added ¾ cup of water to dilute 2 cups of fermented batter before making appam.
• Can add coconut milk instead of water to dilute the batter.

 
Total time: 5 ~ 7 minutes
Preparation time: 5~7 minutes

Ingredients:

2 cups coconut pieces
2 ~ 4 cups of water
1 cup sugar or lesser or taste
¼ tsp of cardamom powder
A pinch of salt

Method:

• Grind coconut pieces with 1 ~2 cups of water.
• Strain, ground mixture through strainer or cheese cloth.
• Squeeze thick milk from the mixture and grind the residue again with 1 cup of warm water.

• Again strain thin coconut milk from the ground mixture and strain as well. Adjust milk consistency as required.
• Add required amount of sugar as needed and mix well.
• Finally add pinch of salt and cardamom powder to the milk and mix again.
• Serve with hot Aappam.