Aapam

Appam is a delicious snack prepared from rice , urad dhal , coconut scraping.

Ingredients:
   Sona masoori rice - 2 1/2 cups Idly rice -2 1/2 cups urad shall -1/4 cup coconut shreds -1/4 cup sugar- 1 tsp sooji /rava -1 tsp    baking soda -a pinch   salt-1 1/2 spoon

Method:
     Soak  both the rice in water .soak urad dhal in the same for 3 hours. grind them in a wet grinder .By the last few turns before you stop grinding the batter add coconut scraps to it.
now to the batter add sugar and sooji .
      Add a pinch of baking soda to the batter.
After the batter fermentation, make the batter in a consistency that with flow the batter in the appam pan or kadai or vok.

Pour one ladle of the batter to the kadai/vok when it is hot enough to bake the batter.and immediately twirl the vok /kadai so that the batter flows and takes the shape of the kadai/vok .Add a little oil ,Now simmer the flame and keep covered for the batter to get cooked in 5 minutes.Check in between for any charring. after 5 minutes uncover and with a porous ladle carefully remove the Aapam from the vok retaining its shape.

Serve hot with chilled and sweetened coconut milk .Also tastes great with kurma .