How to prepare Tamil Nadu's Special Appam

Ingredients required for preparing Tamil Nadu's special Appam

Un Cooked Rice – 2 bowls

Grated Coconut – 1 Cup




Boiled Rice – Handful

Curd – 1/2 spoon

Soda Salt – 1 Pinch
Salt – To Taste

Oil – To grease appam

Tamil Nadu's traditional recipe Appam preparation procedure

Take two bowls of uncooked rice, wash it thoroughly and soak it in clear water for 2 hours.

Take coconut in a mixer jar and grind it until it becomes as a fine paste. With this add the soaked rice and grind everything to the consistency.
Then add half spoon curd, a pinch of soda salt and required amount of salt with this batter and mix well.

Now let the batter to ferment before cooking. For the fermenting time duration note the hint below.

Now take a dosa tawa or appam broil and heat it to medium flame.

Now take a ladle of appam batter and pour it in dosa tawa and spread it in circular motion either clockwise or anti-clockwise.

If you are cooking to cook appam in an appam grid then take a spoon of appam batter and pour it in center.

Then carefully carry the hot appam grid wearing heat resistant gloves or with a thick cotton cloth and rotate it either clock wise or anticlockwise.

Once the batter is spread on the grid close it with a lid and let it to cook for 1 or 2 minutes. 

If required greese the appam with few drops of oil.

After 1 or 2 minutes, open the lid, take out the appam with a tawa stick and transfer it to a serving plate.

Finally you can serve it with sweetened coconut milk or with some spicy kuruma.

Hint:

If you add a pinch of baking soda let the batter to ferment for just 30 minutes before making the appams.

If you do not wish to add baking soda, let the batter to ferment for about 6 to 8 hours.