Vellayappam / Rice Pan Cake

Vellayappam / Kallappam is a sort of pancake prepared using grinded rice and coconut fermented with yeast or toddy (Kallu).

INGREDIENTS:

• Rice – 1 cup 
• Cooked rice – 2 tbsp 
• Grated coconut – 1 ½ cup or coconut milk -½ cup 
• Yeast -¼ tsp 
• Sugar -2 tbsp 
• Salt - As reqd

PREPARATION METHOD:

• Soak rice for atleast 4 hrs 
• Make a batter of rice, coconut( or coconut milk)and cooked rice(idli batter consistency) 
• Add yeast and sugar to warm water and dissolve. 
• Add this to the batter and keep for about 6 hrs. 
• Before making appam, add salt and little sugar. 
• Heat a Dosa Pan(Dosa kallu). 
• Spread some oil on the it.
• Pour a spoonful batter on the pan.
• Spread the batter to form a small circle.
• When one side is golden brown, turn the other side .

Recommended Combination: Vellayappam can be served hot with Chicken Curry / Vegetable Stew / Vegetable Kurma / Chicken Kurma / Kadala Curry

Vattayappam / Rice Cake

Vattayappam or Rice Cake is a main item in Kerala.
Rice - Coconut batter cooked in steam to prepare this item.

INGREDIENTS:

• Raw rice flour -1 cups
• Grated Coconut - 1 ½ cup
• Cumin Seed - pinch
• Cream of Rice (thari)/Rava- 1 tbsp
• Ghee- ½ tsp
• Yeast -½ tsp
• Sugar- 5 tbsp
• Salt - ¼ tsp 
• Water

PREPARATION METHOD:

• Lightly roast rice flour about 3 minutes.
• Mix yeast with sugar in 5 Tbsp warm water and keep aside.
• Grind Coconut and cumin seed to a fine paste.
• Cook the cream of rice in little water by stirring continuously.
• Mix rice flour, cooked cream of rice and yeast and knead into a soft dough. 
• Add the coconut paste mix to the dough with little water and mix well. 
• Add Salt and mix well to make a thick batter.
• Grease ghee in a pan (steel plate) and pour the batter into it.
• Steam it well in an idli steamer for 15 minutes.
• Remove it from the steamer. 
• Let it cool for sometime and remove from the pan.

Recommended Combination: Vattayappam / Rice Cake can be served hot with Chicken Curry / Chicken Stew / vegetable Kurma / Chicken Kurma / Kadala Curry

Paalappam / Appam.

Appam made with ground soaked rice and cooked rice, mixed to a batter with coconut milk and water then left in a warm place to ferment for a number of hours. Appam is thin and crisp round the edges and fluffy and thick in the centre.

INGREDIENTS:

• Raw rice – 1 cup
• Cooked rice(parboiled) – 2 tbsp
• Scraped coconut – ½ or coconut milk -½ cup
• Yeast -¼ tsp
• Sugar -1 tbsp
• Salt - As reqd

PREPARATION METHOD:

• Soak rice for atleast 4 hrs
• Make a batter of rice, coconut( or coconut milk)and cooked rice(batter should not be too watery)
• Add yeast and sugar to warm water and dissolve.
• Add this to the batter and keep for about 6 hrs.
• Before making appams, add salt and little sugar.
• Heat a Pan(Appachatti).
• Pour a spoonful batter into the appa chatti and rotate the Chatti.
• Cover the pan and cook in medium flame till the edges of the Appam turn golden colour..

Recommended combination: Serve hot with Egg Roast or Stew or Chicken Curry.