Tricolor Independence day spacial Appam. Appam is a Kerala delicacy and is very simple to prepare. It’s tastes awesome with egg curry or vegetable stew. I have not used any food color for this rather used the color of vegetables itself. Happy Independence Day!!
Ingredients
for appam batter
- 2 cup Rice soaked for 5-7 hrs
- 1 cup Coconut milk or shredded coconut
- 1/2 cup Oats soaked (If Oat is not available, you can use cooked rice)
- 1 tsp Dry active yeast
- 1/2 cup Lukewarm water
- 1 tsp Sugar
- Salt to taste
For veggie batter
- 1 bunch Spinach
- 1 yellow beetroot
- 4-5 Carrot
Instructions
- Ingredients for Appam batter. Soak the rice in water for 5 to 7 hrs.
- Dissolve yeast in lukewarm water along with sugar. Cover it and keep it in a warm place for 15 minutes.
- Grind the rice, oat along with coconut milk and yeast mixture. Make a nice smooth batter. Don't add too much of water. Batter should be of medium consistency. Add salt according to your taste.
- Cover it and keep it in a warm place for fermentation for 5-6 hrs.
- Once batter is fermented, Add little bit of water to make the batter into a pour consistency. Keep it aside.
- For colorful veggie batter, clean the spinach and blanch in boiling water. Then strain it and make a thick puree without water. To make beetroot & carrot puree, boil the beetroot in a pressure cooker till 3 whistles and peel it. Cut carrots in a small size and grind along with boiled beetroot without water and make a puree. Now in two separate bowl pour one cup of appam batter each and add 4 tbsp spinach puree to make green color batter and in other bowl add 4 tbsp of beetroot and carrot puree to make saffron (orange) color. Mix the batter well in both the bowls separately. Add little water if needed.
- For making appam, you need a non-stick appam pan.
- Heat the appam pan at medium heat. Take a one big scoop of batter and pour in a center of the pan. Wait for 3 sec.
- Hold the both handle and rotate the pan till the batter spreads over the pan evenly . Swirling it two times should be enough. Swirl in one direction only.
- Cover it by using lid, let it cook for 2 minutes.
- Make rest of the appams following the same procedure.
- Tricolor appams are ready to be served with vegetable stew, egg curry or chicken curry.
- Enjoy these hot appams with vegetable stew.
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Thanks to my friend Sreelatha Shenoy for teaching me the Appam recipe.
Thank you Geeta for link back.