Aapam

 

 

Ingredients

Items

Qnty

Comments

Par Boiled Rice

1 cup

(tamil:pulungal arisi)

Raw Rice

1 cup

(tamil:pachai arisi)

Black Gram(Skinless) or Urad Dhal

1/4 cup

(tamil:ooluntham paruppu)

Fenugreek

1 teaspoon

(tamil:vendayam)

Coconut Milk

4 cups

(tamil:theyngai pal)

Sugar

1 cup

(tamil:sarkarai)

Oil

½ cup

For Making Aapams

Salt

½ teaspoon

Or as required

 

Method

 

1.      Wash and soak both the rice,urad dhal and fenugreek seeds together in water for 4 hours.

 

2.      Drain the water and finely grind in the grinder by adding water now and then(About 1 1/2  cup of water).

 

3.      After about 30 minutes the rice and dhal is well grinded into a fine paste.

 

4.      Transfer the batter to a vessel.

 

5.      Put 1/2 teaspoon of salt and mix the batter well with you hand for about 5 minutes.

 

6.      Allow the batter to ferment overnight.

 

7.      The next day morning you would see the batter raises well.

 

8.      To make the coconut milk grind 2 cups of shredded coconut along with 2 cups of water in a blender and grind for 2 minutes.

 

9.      Pour the milk onto a strainer and strain well.Throw away the coconut flakes.

 

10.  Keep the coconut milk in a separate vessel and add 1 cup of sugar and mix well so that the sugar dissolves.

 

11.  Heat a tawa or frying pan with a curved base and pour a ladle full of batter in the center.Rotate the tawa with you hands clockwise so that you spread the dough to make a circle.

 

12.  It would be thick in the center and thin on the corners.Spoon out little oil on all sides and close with a lid.

 

13.  In about a minute remove from the tawa and place on a plate.

 

14.  Spread 1 teaspoon of sugar on the aapam and pour ¼ cup of coconut milk on top of it and serve.

 

 

Tips

 

·         You can keep the batter in the oven overnight for fermenting.This helps a lot during the winter season.

·         Adding fenugreek seeds will give good flavour and will soften the aapams.

·         Storing the coconut milk in the fridge slightly changes it’s taste so try to serve the aapams with fresh coconut milk.

·         Using aapa chatti would give best results.But it can be substituted with a frying pan or tawa in case you don’t have one.

·         For those who don’t like coconut milk or sweet aapam can be served with vegetable kurma.