Appam (Kerala Bread)

Ingredients

Raw rice – 3 cup

Cooked rice – 3 tbsp

Coconut grated & Coconut water – of half a coconut

Yeast – a little

Warm water – to add to the yeast

Sugar – 1 tsp to add to the yeast and warm water

Salt to taste

Method

Soak the raw rice overnight with enough water. In a grinder, grind soaked raw rice, cooked rice, coconut grated and coconut water. Pour the ground paste into a deep bottomed bowl. In a glass, mix yeast with warm water and sugar. Pour into the ground mixture. Keep the mixture to rise overnight. The next day, you can make Appam out of the ground mixture. In an Appa Chatti (Pan) pour 5 tbsp of ground mixture or dough, rotate the appa chatty to reach all sides of the chatty. Close it with lid. After 1 minute when the appam is done take it out of pan. Serve hot with milk, bull’s eye(egg) and chammandhi or egg masala.