Paalappam- using Rice Flour

Paalappam

Appam is a type of pancake prepared with fermented rice batter and coconut milk. “Paalappam “ this dish has a lace border.It is prepared using the small special curved shape pan. We call it as appachatti in malayalam. It’s a main part of kerala Christians cuisine.

It is eaten mostly for breakfast or dinner.

Appam is traditionally served with fish molee (seafood stew), stew(spiced stew of potatoes and coconut milk).It is one of the healthy and tasty dish ..

Let’s go to the recipe,here I have used Rice four (roasted)to prepare the dough along with semolina.

Ingredients

Appam vessel

Oil

Coconut Milk 2 ½ cups

Yeast 1 tsp

Water 1 cup

Semolina – ½ cup

Salt as required

Rice Flour -250 gms

Method

First dissolve sugar and yeast in water ( ½ cup ).The water should be warm .

Keep this aside for some time near 20 mins

Mix semolina with remaining water and cook for a few minutes.

Let it cool for a few minutes(that semolina gruel)

Mix rice powder,sugar,salt with this gruel .

Also add fermented yeast mixture to it

.mix everything nicely finally add coconut milk and mix the dough .Set aside for a few hours .after that u can use it to make paalappam using appachatti.

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