Appam and Vegetable Stew

Ashwini — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:50:29 +0000

Appam is a traditional kerala and tamilnadu style food. In karnataka they dont prepare this.So this is a new dish I learned from mom-in-law after marriage.Appam is one of my favorite dish as it is easy to prepare and good for health also.
For appam you need special tava called Appam tava which we will get in all the stores.

Ingredients:
Idly rice – 1 cup
Raw rice – 1 1/2 cup
Urad dal – 1/4 cup
Methi seeds / fenugreek – 2 spoons
Salt -to taste

Soak all these for 5 hours and grind it to a nice paste.Add salt.Keep the batter for 10-12 hours for fermentation.

Putting appam is little tricky.Take the appam tava, put a spoon of oil.Put one small cup of batter in the center,take the tava in hands and rotate the tava in circular motion so that the batter spreads equally.

Cover the tava with lid for 2 minutes.Its ready

Best combination for appam is Vegetable stew.
Ingredients :

Finely chopped vegetables like beans,carrot,gobi,aloo and peas.
Tomato – 1
Onions – 2
Green chillies – 3
Garam masala powder – 2 tbsp
Coconut milk – 2 cups

Oil
Turmeric powder
Mustard seeds
Urad dal
Chana dal
Curry leaves

First of all boil the vegetables with salt.Heat oil in kadai, add the above ingredients and fry onion,green chillies,Add vegetables to it.Add 2 cups of coconut milk .Add garam masala powder and salt and boil it.

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Appam and Vegetable Stew