Appam

Appam is a bowl-shaped thin rice pancake. This is one of the easiest Kerala breakfast recipes with rice flour. Here’s how you can prepare appam.

Ingredients

2 cups rice flour
½ cup grated coconut
1 cup cooked rice
1 teaspoon sugar
1 teaspoon dry yeast
¼ cup warm water
Cooking spray
Salt to taste

How To Prepare
 

• Add sugar and dry yeast to warm water in a bowl. Keep it aside for 10-15 minutes till bubbles start to appear.
• Soak the uncooked rice for at least 4 hours.
• To make the batter, drain the soaked rice and mix it with the cooked rice and grated coconut.
• Blend this mix into a smooth batter.
• Add salt and the yeast and sugar solution to the batter. Let it ferment overnight.
• In the morning, heat a skillet and grease it with cooking spray.
• Add a ladle of the batter in the middle of the skillet.
• Pick up the skillet and move it in a circular motion to spread the batter to make it into a thin pancake.
• Cover it with a lid and let it cook on low flame till the edges become golden brown.
• Remove the lid and serve the delicious appam with any curry.