Tuesday, February 20, 2007


When you were about two years old, you would tell me 'Yaya want Appam now!' and I used to move my hands in the air while reciting "om freem kuttichathan bring appam for yaya". You looked so innocent then, when you try to open my hands to see the Appam kuttichathan brought..Eventually you became more smarter and used to say" Yaya wants Appam, not Kuttichathan Appam"



So here is your favourite Appam recipe


Ingredients


1 packet of rice flour( mama likes elephant brand rice flour)


1 packet coconut powder(santan.. Malaysian Santan!!)
2 t spn yeast
1/2 cup warm water
5 tbl spn sugar
1/2 t spn salt.
1 1/2 cup water

There are three steps to follow.


In a heavy bottom pan mix a table spn of rice flour in 1 cup of water. cook that on a medium fire, stirring often till it is thickened. Take it off from the fire and cool.

In another bowl, take 1/2 cup warm water( not too hot, no too cold) mix a t spn sugar and the yeast. Keep it aside for 10 mints.

In a fairly large bowl, mix the coconut, rice flour, salt and sugar. When the yeast is nice a bubbly, add that to the bowl. Add the cooled thickened rice paste. along with 1 1/2 cups of water and mix well. Keep it covered in a warm place for 6 hours(mama keeps it in the oven with the pilot light on). Your batter is ready.




To make Appam, you need Appam chatti. Unfortunately our traditional wok won't sit on the electric burner, so mama uses a Chapati pan that has a slight depression in the center.

First heat the pan on medium heat. Brush a little bit of oil and pour two table spn of the fermented batter. Quickly tilt the pan and swirl the batter to form a circle


Cover with a lid



Cook till the edge is lightly browned and the center is cooked. Eat with stew or your brother's favourite coconut milk and sugar


3 comments:

upsilamba said...

yaya -- you got one silly mom! kuttichathan and all!!! hahahahaa...'
I hope someday you will learn malayalam and read Balarama..

Funny girl said...

"Yaya want Appam now"....soooo cute!
hehe and u got a terrific mom not to mention.haha
now even I learn how to make Appam Yaya.

Geets said...

Cho Chweeeeet Yaya