Name: Appam & Stew
Prep time: 40 min
Total time: 40 min
Ingredients: 1 cup Basmati rice (soaked for atleast 3 hours); 1/2 of Coconut; 3 tbsp Cooked rice; Salt (As reqd); 1 tsp Sugar; 1 tsp Ghee; 2 nos Dry red chillies (Kollamulaku); 1 tsp Small onions (finely sliced, Kunjulli); 1 tsp Mustard seeds

Appam & Stew

Typical recipe for the best appam

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Prep Time 40

Total Time 40

Cuisine Kerala

Servings people

Ingredients

For Appams:-

1 cup Basmati rice soaked for atleast 3 hours
1/2 of Coconut
3 tbsp Cooked rice
Salt As reqd
1 tsp Sugar

For garnishing:-

1 tsp Ghee
2 nos Dry red chillies Kollamulaku
1 tsp Small onions finely sliced, Kunjulli
1 tsp Mustard seeds

Instructions

Grind together basmati, cooked rice and coconut along with 1/2 cup water finely.
Keep aside in a warm place for fermenting.
:- It will definitely ferment when kept overnight. If you live in a cold region, keep the vessel in hot water.
Add water, salt, a pinch of soda bicarb and a tsp of sugar to the fermented batter.
For making stew:- 1)In a pressure cooker, saute the onion, ginger, garlic, small onions and green chillies.
When onion starts becoming transluscent, add the vegetables and stir.
Add coriander pwder and stir for 1 min.
Add 1 cup of thin coocnut milk and mix well.
Cook on high flame upto 1 whistle and later, on low flame for 5 mins.
After the pressure settles, add the thick coconut milk and stir.
Add garam masala.
:- Do not heat after this.
Add pepper if needed.
:- A tsp of Ari podi(Rice flour) can be added to make the stew thick.
Splutter mustard seeds, small onions, dry red chillies and curry leaves in ghee.
Garnish the stew with the above.
:- Chicken also can be added in this stew.